Affirmative Action loses at Boston University debate
Posted on 06. Apr, 2007 by Derek Bargeld in Race, Top Stories
An all-white panel of two professors and a student persuaded the majority of an audience that affirmative action does not truly benefit minorities at last night’s Great Debate in the Tsai Performance Center at Boston University.
The “negative” team faced off against the all-black “affirmative” team, debating the question, “Does Affirmative Action in Higher Education Really Benefit Minorities?” before a crowd of about 200 at the 23rd biannual debate.
University of California, Los Angeles law professor Richard Sander, who led the negative side, called the racial make-up of the teams “unfortunate” because it appeared to make affirmative action a “black-versus-white issue.”
Sander argued that the effects of affirmative action extend beyond those who directly benefit from it.
“Affirmative action involves massive preferences which have massive consequences . . . in the students’ academic standards,” he said.
The panelists on the “affirmative” side included Duke University law professor James Coleman Jr., BU Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore and College of Arts and Sciences senior Deon Provost. MORE>>>
‘affirmative action’ IS a black vs White thing. It perpetuates racism in that it gives jobs to those of color, not merit, which isnt that what racism is all about??
From full article:
“I would argue that the principal justification for such policies is the diffusion of knowledge,” he continued. “Affirmative action is not a remedial device. It is the ultimate goal for public education.”
So the ultimate goal is to desciminate against Whites. Thats not what the White liberals in the sixties were told. Had they know this at the time Afferative Action would never have gotten off the ground. The far right is now in the moral right on this issue.
Its funny how liberals want us to get past race, and how it doesn’t matter what race you are, its not your fault your born a certain race. Yet, they promote things such as Affirmative action, which IS racist in the fact that minorities get preferential treatment. I thought we were all “created equal”?