{"id":8594,"date":"2003-02-23T12:02:47","date_gmt":"2003-02-23T17:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/02\/23\/oh-mighty-court-please-save-us\/"},"modified":"2003-02-23T12:02:47","modified_gmt":"2003-02-23T17:02:47","slug":"oh-mighty-court-please-save-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/02\/oh-mighty-court-please-save-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh mighty court please save us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>&#8220;Opportunities for minorities hinge on court\ufffds ruling&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000FF\">WASHINGTON &#151; Fewer blacks and Hispanics would have<br \/>\naccess to competitive, high-paying careers if the Supreme Court overturns a<br \/>\n25-year-old ruling that allows affirmative action in college admissions, according<br \/>\nto education experts and research findings. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000FF\">The experience of states where affirmative action has<br \/>\nbeen replaced by other programs shows that without it, minority attendance at<br \/>\ntop colleges and universities drops. That, in turn, lowers the number of minorities<br \/>\nattending graduate schools, one of the first steps on the path to top-paying<br \/>\njobs.<\/font> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acadiananow.com\/news\/html\/5B106672-F82F-4159-B134-3EC17E66556F.shtml\">Full<br \/>\nStory<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>I really dislike headlines like this. They infer that minorities can only get<br \/>\ngood jobs if a policy is upheld by the Supreme Court. Merit and ability have<br \/>\nnothing to do with anything and it is only the benevolence of government policies<br \/>\nthat allow minorities to move up. They also really don&#8217;t mean minorities either<br \/>\nsince Asians are normally not considered in Affirmative Action policies, just<br \/>\ngovernment protected minorities. In California where the Chicken Littles screamed<br \/>\nthat Prop 209 would reduce diversity in the colleges they now have increased<br \/>\nrepresentation of minorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Opportunities for minorities hinge on court\ufffds ruling&#8221; WASHINGTON &#151; Fewer blacks and Hispanics would have access to competitive, high-paying careers if the Supreme Court overturns a 25-year-old ruling that allows&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}