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Diversity, affirmative action. but i want to say this other point, symone, right? we ve all written college essays, you know? my college essay did not talk about the way racism affected me and my life, because one of the things i want to talk about, right? i want to talk about my academic accomplishments. i didn t want to waste time in my-limited word count essay explaining what racism is to an admissions counselor. that s a heavy burden. in law, we call that burden shifting from a job that should be done by the admissions folks to the shoulders of 17 and 18 year old black kids who have a lot of other things they might want to express, other than explaining the historical 16 19 effects of racism on their president, you know, high school lives. so, again, roberts opinion there, it is a assaulting, on top of it being a misrepresentation of the 14th amendment and the law. i had something to say on ....
Does not open the university up to a line of litigation? i m glad you brought that up because we ve had other discussions on the program about how s eye, vague those instructions are. you can consider race but feel free to put it in your college as a because that s your experience. so you re saying this could spawn a cottage industry of litigation. like what? imagine a kid puts in a college essay, my parents are from senegal, i am black, i m also a champion soccer player, and my dad happened to go to this university. there are a number of factors that are going to affect them, and maybe they consider that students race. so it has the student violated the law by thinking about this person s race? for the cottage industry point on this, i do wonder if you are a nonprofit that is opposed to the use of race in admissions, why aren t you suing every university over the coming years to get the records of their admissions decisions to try to figure out how these ....
The pieces of low hanging fruit, eliminated legacy preferences for wealthy whites and you will create a fair system and more racial diversity. elliott, this does behoove college is having diversity on campuses, student want that. so is it possible they are just going to get more creative or is this going to really cut into that? they have to get more creative if they wish number one they have to define what diversity means, even when speaking about asians. there is been so much discussion about asian americans today, what do we mean about asian americans? east asians, south asians, southeast asians, each have different experiences in this country, different economic, all of the above. and then the question opens up as justice roberts said in his opinion, someone could still right in a college essay how their race had an impact on them growing up. what does that do, number one, how do you make that affective and functioning in a way that ....
i find the college as a component to this so confusing having had two seniors who have just gone through this the college essay is about your lived experience or it is supposed to be to shed light on who you are beyond your test scores and so what justice roberts said about it and i will read it to anyone he says nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant s discussion of how race affected his or her life. yet through discrimination or otherwise. but despite assertion to the contrary universities may not be established through application essays or other means the regina we hold today. what cannot be done directly cannot be done indirectly. it is confusing. reporter: it can be. remember when people are ....
Component to this, as you described, so confusing. having had to seniors who have just gone through this, the college essay is about your lived experience, or it supposed to be, to shed light on who you really, are beyond your test scores. and, so what justice roberts said about it, i ll just read to everyone. he says, nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicants discussion of how race affected his or her life. be a true discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise. but despite the dissent s assertion to the contrary, universities may not simply establish, through application, essays or other means, the regime we hold unlawful today, what cannot be done directly, cannot be done indirectly. it is confusing. laura it can be, and you look at how do i really actually carry this out, without either offending the ruling, or the constitution as the majority is holding here. so remember, when people are talking about affirmative action, ....