Recent SCOTUS Opinions

[Bengalzona]

(06-28-2016, 09:39 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Economics still determine college enrollment. Some minorities still, on average, struggle more economically than other groups of people. While we have eliminated a lot of legal discrimination, that hasn't shown a dramatic shift in the economic well being of minorities. 

And that is sort of my point. With quotas, we tell black, Hispanic, etc. students that they are different and require 'special assistance' because of their race, ethnicity, etc., when the root problem is (and always has been) economics. We segregate them in the admission process by saying essentially, "We have studies that show that you people struggle more economically." It is another way of telling people that "segregation is good as long as it works in your favor".  And we justify this by saying, "It's okay. We have statistics to prove that you people struggle more."

Maybe we just ought to say, "Quota systems, regardless of how we couch them in terminology, are just our way of making reparations to your race, religion, sex, ethnicity, etc. for past wrongs. We just don't want to admit that they are reparations."