{"id":2086,"date":"2003-06-23T18:25:43","date_gmt":"2003-06-23T18:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2003\/06\/23\/236\/"},"modified":"2003-06-23T18:25:43","modified_gmt":"2003-06-23T18:25:43","slug":"236","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2086","title":{"rendered":"236"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Universities can use race as a factor for <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/LAW\/06\/23\/scotus.affirmative.action\/index.html%22\">admittance<\/a>.  In a 5 to 4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that the U of Michigan&#8217;s law school policy was constitutional for being narrowly tailored (geek!!!!), and basically it didn&#8217;t violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.<br \/>\nThis is significant.  It&#8217;s significant because affirmative action will be around for a while longer, and frankly I&#8217;m glad because it&#8217;s still needed.  Too many people are under the impression that affirmative action gives minorities a free ride into these institutions, and frankly that&#8217;s just not true.  Look at Texas.  The state has no affirmative action policy and enrollment of minorities is at an all time low.  Not because the students aren&#8217;t qualified.  It&#8217;s because the schools are no longer looking to become diversified, and not only is that detrimental to the student body, but it&#8217;s hurtful to the minorities who are in need of that education.<br \/>\nI could go on and on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universities can use race as a factor for admittance. In a 5 to 4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that the U of Michigan&#8217;s law school policy was constitutional for being narrowly tailored (geek!!!!), and basically it didn&#8217;t violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. This is significant. It&#8217;s significant because affirmative action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}