Writing today on NRO, Peter Kirsanow (a lawyer and member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and the National Labor Relations Board) explains what is wrong with the policy of affirmative action — it mismatches students with institutions. Read it here.
Specifically, Kirsanow is talking about law school, where the pressure to fulfill racial quotas (never mind the constant denials by schools that they don’t) means that lots of young minority students are admitted to law school who aren’t academically up to the challenge and will have great difficulty in graduating, then passing the bar exam, and then finding employment. A policy that appeals emotionally to the left has bad side effects for many of the people they think they are helping. That, of course, is a well-worn theme.
