Response to Opinion of Granholm, Archer. MCRI
U. of M’s own statistics just recently released by the Center for Equal Opportunity prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that less qualified minorities have a 70 to 1 advantage over white and Asian applicants with the same and superior SAT and ACT test scores.http://www.ceousa.org/
The Supreme Court was wrong in the Dred Scott decision, and in many other decisions, including the Grutter vs. U of M decision. It was, however, right in the Gratz vs. U of M decision. “Diversity” is a code word for racial quotas.
Your personal benefitting from an unjust system does not make that system just. Thank you for admitting that it was only through discrimination that you both got to where you are.
“Leveling the playing field” is an euphemism for discrimination and social engineering, both of which always produces victims and injured parties. What you’re saying is you and other government and educational elites have the infinite wisdom to decide the fate of other people’s lives based on their arbitrary gender or skin color, and don’t care about the “collateral damage” of your fellow citizens.
Allowing discrimination perverts the entire social order by undermining the rewarding of excellence and the arduous self-sacrifice and devotion to higher ideals that produce it. Much of Michigan’s troubles are the result of the fanatasy world of pseudo-values that underpin affirmative action and its many corruptions.
John McWhorter has documented and discussed extensively how affirmative action undermines the self-development of minorities by removing the INCENTIVE for serious, sustained study and hard work. It’s a lie that affirmative action helps students. It doesn’t. It rewards failure, laziness, excuses, and hypocrisy.
Your Opinion is full of cliches, half truths, and distortions. Please read the books of intelligent, outstanding black Americans such as Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, John McWhorter, Ward Connerly and others who truly care about helping the kids in our urban areas instead of the 86% middle and upper-middle class blacks kids who use affirmative action to cheat their way into U of M.
You two clearly only care about maintaining your privileged positions, fat incomes, and milking more money and influence from supporting the destructive, discriminatory system of racial preference.
Frederick Glaysher
Life-long Rochester Hills, Citizen of MICHIGAN!!!
Editor, Robert Hayden’s Collected Prose, U. of M. Press, 1984
University of Michgian Alumnus, 1980 & 1981
Why Voters Should Approve the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative
http://www.fglaysher.com/MCRI/