(12-13-2015, 04:09 PM)thunder_chik link Wrote:[quote author=ferrari link=topic=14039.msg147998#msg147998 date=1450042730]
"Scalia? Really?". I'm surprised Obama didn't weigh in.
FYI: Scalia made some comments suggesting that some black students might be more successful going to "lesser" universities. See info at
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/201...erns-video
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Thanks. Interesting, to me, that some folks take what he said as an insult to minority students. I don't read it that way at all. He is saying, I think, that most minority students (those likely to be candidates for affirmative action) suffer from poor preparation provided by their public education, not that the students are inherently inferior. It applies equally to non minorities, myself being a case in point. My public high school did a very poor job of preparing me for a school like Stanford and so I struggled, mightily. If I had not had strong family backing (which is to say they would have killed me) I might have transferred to a less demanding school. Had nothing to do, I hope, with my intellectual capacity and everything to do with the preparation I was offered. If I am corr ct and this is what Scalia meant, then Harry Reid and Al (Reverend) Sharpton are mistaken.