Linda Chavez writes here about the new findings of her Center for Equal Opportunity about the use of racial preferences.
She says that race-preferential policies don’t even have a beneficial impact on the students admitted with lower academic profiles. On that point, she is certainly right. Thomas Sowell has for years maintained that racial preferences mismatch students and schools. Furthermore, getting a degree from an elite university is neither necessary to nor sufficient for success in later life.
The US will be much better off once we get beyond the infatuation with categorizing people by race. Justice O’Connor said 25 years. No reason to wait even 25 minutes.
