this gives you diversity because of the residential segregation and segregated schools. you have many racially identifiable schools. it gives you a measure of diversity. after the hish mitsch cases were decided, texas decide thad it wanted to take on some of what the court said was possible to consider race for the remaining graduates, together with a multitude of factors. so it s decidedly not a quota-based system or specific points system. there are academic factors and other factors, leadership, do you come from a single parent home. did you work while in high school in. you get points for that. my understanding, for your leadership capabilities or potential, that s graded on a point system per se, is it not? how do you grade that? i think it s a range of factors. texas is not shooting for any set number of african-americans or latinos. what fascinates me is that abigail fisher, the plaintiff in
cent. what i find interesting about this conversation, no one will admit this, it is really the browning of america and how this country is changing in a good way and thus in the process by people. because we re becoming more and more browner if, you will, our legislature, our elected officials should be reflective of that, right? i know in the republican party, that s always a very uncomfortable conversation to have. the reason why and i believe this is code you know what shall the america that i grew up in is not the same anymore. it feels different. what are you really saying here? are you saying that the values of our system are changing or are you saying that this country does not look as white as it used to be. that s really what i think the underlying conversation i think we should have but it s an uncomfortable conversation to have. this year was the first time that more than 50% of children who were born in this year were born to parents who were nonwhite or one parent was
being 25 years, lo and behold it was only nine years because the personnel at the court has changed. alternatively and this is my hope, they could go much narrower than that. they could go look, there s a 10% program. just to clarify, they re both right. legally they re neutral. the programs have said we re talking the 10%. the reason that it was put into place was so that the top 10% of highly segregated high schools would be admitted into the u.t. system. it has the effect, has a positive impact on racial minorities. the question is in this case, if that program is constitutional, which it probably is, 80-plus percent of individuals at u.t. are being admitted under that 10% program today. the question is what happens to the remainder who are being admitted under a race conscious program. abigail fisher is not saying i
her point is, i think, i m qualified, i got accepted to all these other schools. but just in the process, i couldn t get accepted in the university of texas because of an underlying quota system or point-based system that basically said my understanding is university of texas has 52,000 students. out of those 52,000, 5% are black. that doesn t represent texas. texas has 12%. hispanics 18%. statewide is 39%. what texas i think is trying to do is trying to diversify it s community through a point-based system, right? not it s actually that they have a race blind policy system for the vast majority of the students. the top 10% of all high school graduates no matter what high school you graduate from from texas? right. gets into texas state system but not necessarily the flagship. is that right? the top 10% gets in. they get guaranteed admission.
vote rather than punishing people for not to be fair to the system to be transparent, you can vote by absentee ballot. if you feel you re elderly or if you are and you want to vote in person but you re not sure you can do it in person, granted the reason we have elections on tuesday it s the whole farming system. there s a whole history behind that. i agree it s outdated. i agree with you it s not particularly convenient. we thought we had we got this right with help america vote acts of 2002. that fiasco of florida, we don t have it right. the unfortunate truth is, you re right, we make it very, very inconvenient for a lot of our citizens to vote. we have to change that? tuesday is your last day to register. there are some that say the registration for many americans, they may not be aware that tuesday will be your last day to register. let me also just say this. that this week in voter suppression which we re talking about up to the election, i think part of the question is