But the point of this new Justice Department initiative isn’t to address the problems of college admissions at all.
from the article:
Affirmative action is a consistent hobbyhorse on the right because it combines real anxieties with compelling falsehoods. College admission — especially to the elite institutions most often hit with affirmative action lawsuits — has become more selective and is an increasingly important factor in the creation and perpetuation of wealth and opportunity. Elite colleges serve as steppingstones into politics, finance, law and Silicon Valley; higher incomes tend to follow. Even so, 80 percent of top students who apply are accepted into at least one elite school, if not their No. 1 choice. But measures that help historically disadvantaged populations to take advantage of the same opportunity are nonetheless characterized as zero-sum.
Zero-sum can be defined as a situation “in which whatever is gained by one side is lost by the other.” As the author points out in that snippet, the dangers in a lot of the affirmative action discourse is the assumption that any and all minorities at selective colleges are in possession of a seat that was unfairly stolen from a hardworking innocent wiz kid who is now robbed from any and all opportunities that THEY’VE earned.
Ignoring the fact that students like ME who **also** worked their assess off attended schools in the hood that didn’t have the resources, and weren’t set them to give us Ivy League ready resumes. Or school staff that even understood, or were able to help with, the college application  process. They were busy making sure students were able to G R A D U A T E.Â
Let’s also ignore the legacy students and rich kids who spent 300% of their time in college drinking, doing hard ass expensive drugs, and still gaining access to amazing educational opportunities and dope internships that set them up for life.
The most hardworking, driven, brilliant people I’ve ever known were the people of color I went to college with. Conversely some the most entitled, close-minded and self destructive individuals I’ve met were rich white classmates. But let’s go ahead and use WHITE HOUSE RESOURCES to sue colleges for having to many black and brown faces.
Undergraduate exams: probably between 20-40% of your grade. Either over all material over the semester, or all the material since the midterm. Study guide probably provided. You spend about a week or so studying, you have an hour/maybe 2 to the take the exam. Grade is posted to blackboard/emailed to you.
Law school exams: 100% of your grade. Literally your entire grade is this one exam. Over every single case/rule you’ve gone over in the course. No study guide or notes provided. You spend 3+ months outlining your notes into IRAC or briefs. 3-4 hours to take the test. The professor takes all the exams, reads through them- they get the best work and the worst work- thats your A and your F, and all the others are ranks D- through A- according to that. Grades are posted on a piece of paper outside your professors office- with your first and last name, ranked 1st-last, highest to lowest grade. And that’s your class rank and your grade for the entire semester.
I’ve read this book, and they literally address this
The entire point of the form God takes in this book is because God was annoyed at always being portrayed as an old white guy, so they portrayed themself as a middle aged black woman
God says (and I’m paraphrasing here) I have no gender or race and calls the narrator out on imagining them as an old white male gandalfy figure
Like you could not get more accurate to the book than with this casting
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