https://thyblackman.com/2015/12/16/college-mismatched-black-students-pay-the-price-of-affirmative-action/ Black News 24/7 Online for the Black Community. Thu, 17 Dec 2015 04:50:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://thyblackman.com/2015/12/16/college-mismatched-black-students-pay-the-price-of-affirmative-action/comment-page-1/#comment-274014 Thu, 17 Dec 2015 04:50:43 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=56763#comment-274014 The opening paragraph is factually incorrect and displays your bias.
This case has been thoroughly dissected and in the case of Abigail Fisher, the student you speak of, she was not NOT admitted because of her ethnicity but rather because her academic performance fell below the acceptable academic threshold for University of Texas. Furthermore, as reported by ProPublica, of all the students who had lower test scores than her who were admitted under special circumstances only 5 were Black or Latino while 42 were White. She was also given an additional opportunity to enter the University via a satellite campus, to which she turned down.
So, in the end, are we to believe that the substantive premise of her complaint was that her whiteness should somehow give her preferential treatment? That is what it seems (she did ultimately graduate from Louisiana State University). If the argument is merit based admissions then there is no case. If the argument is that a mediocre white student is of inherently more value than an academically superior student of color, then that is an entirely different argument altogether.

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