Certified genius unqualified by affirmative action
Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington Winfield, IL So many gifted black people identified as such before affirmative action was even a notion have been denied the...
Nor for your race and sex.
Matthew Koebbe Huntington Beach, CA I am a white male who heard those words from a University of California financial aid officer after asking about...
Undeserving, just a white single mom
Sarah Morris Downingtown, PA Who knew it was difficult to not be part of the “minority”? My situation would be much different if my race...
Hispanic, Oriental, Caucasian, formerly monolingual, American
Dean Lincoln, NE I never know what to put down for my ethnicity when filling out official forms. I used to put down whatever I...
Black? Educated? What is that?
Renee Reives Lorton, VA Sometimes I feel stuck. I’m black and educated. I feel like a unicorn based on what so many people perceive and...
Affirmative action beneficiaries: mostly not poor
Nathan Whitelight USA Liberals arguing for racial preferences in our government always give a sob story about a minority who grew up in the ghetto,...
Affirmative action has created stagnant society.
Frans Susan (near) Atlanta, GA Political correctness and affirmative action are the most destructive forces of the past 60 years! We have stupid, obtuse white...
Affirmative Action Bill of the ’80’s
George W. Kauffman Rochester, NY Because of the Affirmative Action Bill, ” MERIT ” is no longer part of the Hiring and Promoting Practices of...
Affirmative Action spoils the well.
William Sanchez Peoria, IL People who EARN their admission, appointment, etc., are made suspect by the fact that others get it solely by what group...
He thought I shouldn’t be there.
Danielle Hayden Detroit, MI My freshman year of college, a boy at orientation (with whom I had only recently become acquainted told me that the...
Our legacy is students, not law
Martha S. Jones Ann Arbor, MI Submitted via Twitter: @marthasjonesUM
Separate but equal was the goal.
Glennette Clark Washington DC Integration did a great disservice to black people in that we thought that we achieved a dream that turned out to...
Affirmative Action Killed Southern White Middleclass
Blue Hamilton Spruce Pine, NC Having grown up poor and white in the deep south in the 1960’s, it was common to hear racial slurs...
Unfair Affirmative Action quotas must stop.
Susan Whitemore, Hartford, CT. Most qualified white passed over due to unfair Affirmative Action quotas. AA is unfair to all whites applying for higher education...
