Monday, August 29th 2005
Remember This?
Some Berkeley student protesters have won an award from Mother Jones, a leftist magazine:
Invisible Freshmen Last November, 250 African American UC Berkeley students staged a daylong “Blackout” to protest the precipitous decline in black student enrollment since Cal banned affirmative action a decade ago. Out of last fall’s 3,600 incoming freshmen, only 3 percent were African American. Dressed in black, the protesters silently interrupted classes to distribute fliers demanding the school step up its efforts to recruit black students. “It’s hard being the only black person in the class,” said senior Raniyah Abdus-Samad. “It’s not a good feeling.”
Fortunately, our admissions policies aren’t based on how Raniyah feels or the attention a protest gets from leftist magazines.
Fortunately, in the post-209 world, when a black person graduates from Berkeley now the rest of the world can assume he EARNED the degree. Now THAT’s progress.
Comment by Scott — 8/30/2005 @ 8:04 am
EXACTLY!
Comment by Fresh Prince — 8/30/2005 @ 8:27 am