Friday, October 5th 2007
“Let’s not break the law”
This article on race, 209, and UC admissions by Ward Connerly doesn’t really have anything we haven’t seen before. Essentially a piece on how officials (of UCLA specifically) are narrowly skirting breaking the law and vaguely praising those who do in the name of diversity, it contained a phrase I found particularly sound.
The irony is that in a formally “colorblind” admissions structure - no race “boxes” on the application, no encouragement to applicants to convey their racial background in essays, no intent on the part of admissions officers to find proxies for race - U.C.L.A. could admit the Francis Harris’s of our society with few complaints from hardly anyone.
While no breath-taking stretch of logic, I’m suprised this doesn’t get mentioned more. The less you focus on race, the less it becomes a divisive issue.
