{"id":381,"date":"2004-02-17T20:18:02","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T20:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=381"},"modified":"2004-02-17T20:18:02","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T20:18:02","slug":"caucasians_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Caucasians And Republicans, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of you have probably read about the College Republicans at Roger Williams and their $250 “white pride” scholarships<\/a>. I don’t have a problem debating the merits of affirmative action on college campuses, but this little stunt comes across as juvenile and noxious. Of course, they’re free to do whatever they want. They’re a private organization using private funds for the scholarship. You can probably guess my own views on affirmative action. To be honest, I don’t know if my disability played a role in my admission to law school. I remember mentioning it in my personal statement. I suspect it might have been considered and I don’t have a problem with that. Twenty or thirty years ago, I doubt most law schools, not to mention undergraduate institutions, would have even considered accepting students with disabilities, no matter what their qualifications. So I think it’s entirely appropriate that admissions offices now give some thought to redressing past wrongs. And I certainly wouldn’t expect to be admitted if I wasn’t otherwise qualified. My grades and LSAT score were on par with the rest of my class. But I think it’s critical that colleges and universities value its students for the perspectives and experiences they bring with them and sees them as more than a transcript and a test score. Those who oppose affirmative action try to mask their arguments behind innocuous concepts such as “fairness” and “hard work.” As if those of us who might benefit from affirmative action didn’t work just as hard for our education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of you have probably read about the College Republicans at Roger Williams and their $250 “white pride” scholarships. I don’t have a problem debating the merits of affirmative action on college campuses, but this little stunt comes across as juvenile and noxious. Of course, they’re free to do whatever they want. They’re a private […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-69","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}