BREAKING: SCOTUS TO HEAR MAJOR CHALLENGE TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

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57. Meritocracy is what we all want

It is very interesting that a White woman would challenge Affirmative Action efforts when so many White women owe their success to it. I smell a rat. Looks like a setup to me. Some curmudgeon in the application process was just waiting for the opportunity to use a White women instead of a White male as the patsy.

I am not familiar with the procedures used at UT to announce who is or isn't accepted for admission. But, since the institution is state run , I assume most documents used in the application process would be subject to scrutiny under the FOIA. Whether Fisher used that avenue to gain access to the pertinent information, I cannot say. Apparently White student’s ability to gain access to the scores of Black students is an easy task. I wonder, though if such information would be as readily available to an erudite Black student who “believes’ some lower scoring Whites were admitted ahead of him/her.

Meritocracy is what we all want… as well as a fair shake. But, with recent scandals indicating that wide spread cheating occurs with alarming frequency in even our most prestigious learning institutions, test scores of the “best qualified” could be inflated. Elements in the system have been corrupted in that regard; Some more so than others.

The history of Texas is rife with tales of atrocities against Blacks and that legacy has continued into modern times. So, one can assume from those history lessons that if some of the good people of the Lone Star State would use or condone gerrymandering, murder, and intimidation to keep their fellow Black citizens down… why stop there? For many, MERIT is just an illusion: an ethereal tool used to mask the demon of exclusion. What good is merit when there are so many ways to manipulate it? Among those who bray the loudest against Affirmative Action are the same people who are silent when they see discrimination against Blacks.