Gavel mightier than pen
Edward Blum, a 71-year-old conservative legal strategist, answers questions on his appeal in the US Supreme Court against 'race-conscious' university admissions policies: Q. How would you respond to the Left-wing critique that, unless you force institutions to accept a certain quota of minority people, they will just go back to prioritising their preferred groups? A. They're wrong.
One, it assumes that the academic gaps between African Americans, Hispanics, Whites and Asians are intractable; that there is no way… that they will ever narrow. This incorrectly assumes that the system prevents this. Asian Americans are outperforming Whites academically, despite having fewer resources, less family wealth and lower income levels.
Q. Should society be getting to the root of the issue by helping and encouraging parents to improve early life education? A. That's incredibly important, but what's deeply troubling is that in universities that lower the bar for African Americans and Hispanics, we often see students dropping out or switching to less competitive courses.
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