Banning Affirmative Action Resegregates Higher Education
College admissions statistics in Michigan , where affirmative action programs were most recently banned in 2006, show the dramatic impact and danger of eliminating all consideration of race. Despite aggressive measures by university officials to counteract the effects of the ban and to avoid duplicating the experience of California, black enrollment at the University of Michigan Law School dropped 45% in 2008. Black enrollment at the Wayne State University School of Medicine – an institution that has historically trained a significant proportion of all black doctors in America – plummeted 75%. It is socially and politically unviable that in 2008 a black man could become President of the United States , but a black or Latino child can’t become a doctor or a lawyer.
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So if black and latino people can't become doctors, but asians and indians are very successful, does that mean white people only hate blacks and latinos? Or does it suggest a different problem, that the parental drive so common to indians and asians pushes there children to success, while the destruction of the family in many latinos and blacks leaves them in such a HUGE, dissadvantage