2003-01-15|3:25 p.m.
Heads up guys! George W. Bush says, "I strongly support diversity of all kinds, including racial diversity in higher education.� Yeah, this is news to me too.
But then he gives a twist on it when he says: �But the method used by the University of Michigan to achieve this important goal is fundamentally flawed."
If you haven�t heard this, it is about an affirmative action program at the University of Michigan that targets minority students. His administration is supposed to challenge it soon.
My guess is that he isn�t really upset about the undergraduate admission process which involves a point system where African-American, Hispanic and Native American applicants earn 20 points over other applicants of other races on the basis of race out of a 150-point system.
Bush just doesn�t want competition. He already has an affirmative action program! It�s nationwide and involves not only the educational system, but also employment. Why break what cannot be broken?!
The professors at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology did a recent study . People with white-sounding names rather than black-sounding names stand a better chance of getting a job in the United States.
Forget the freaking point system. That is way too complicated. This new affirmative action is on a much more creative scale. Jobs for people with names like: Neil, Brett, Emily and Jill. No jobs for people with names like: Tamika, Aisha, Kareem and Tyrone.
So, of course he is going to attack programs to help out minorities in college. One wouldn�t want to mess up the kind of thing he personally has gained from inequality.
You see, back in Bush�s college days, he went to Yale when he clearly didn�t deserve to. He lacked the grades and the SAT scores for even consideration. But, never fear. That�s what grand-daddy and daddy�s alumni status was for. And in 2001, Bush accepted an honorary doctorate from Yale when he became president (which he didn�t really deserve either). "To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say, well done," Bush declared. "And to the 'C' students, I say: you too can be president!"
Unless of course you�re black.
Yes, my dear readers, affirmative action is alive and well.