WHO SHOULD GET INTO COLLEGE?

James Joyner | Friday, April 18, 2003

John H. McWhorter has an excellent argument against racial preferences in higher education. The analysis is sufficiently complex as to defy excerpting, except for this classic line:

People who recognize the folly of racial preferences are no more opposed to diversity in this sense than critics of “gangsta” rap are opposed to music.

Indeed. Go read the rest.

(Hat tip: RealClear Politics)

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.

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