One of liberals most prized policies through the years has been affirmative action.
We’ve been told for decades that in order to end racial discrimination, we need to racially discriminate.
Makes sense, right?
Unfortunately, the Department of Justice has recently announced that Yale University has been illegally discriminating against qualified white and Asian applicants.
Those applicants were rejected and their spots given to black or Hispanic applicants.
CNBC reports on the breaking story:
Yale University’s undergraduate admissions process “illegally discriminates” against White and Asian students, the Department of Justice said Thursday.
A two-year investigation into the Ivy League school found that “race is the determinative factor in hundreds of admissions decisions each year,” in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the DOJ said in a press release.
The department said Yale must agree not to use race or national origin as criteria in its next admissions cycle, and that if it plans to consider race in the future, “it must first submit to the Department of Justice a plan demonstrating its proposal is narrowly tailored as required by law, including by identifying a date for the end of race discrimination.”
Yale denied the allegation. Karen Peart, a spokeswoman for the university, said in a statement to CNBC that the Justice Department made its conclusions before Yale had provided enough information to show that its practices “absolutely comply with decades of Supreme Court precedent.”
“At Yale, we look at the whole person when selecting whom to admit among the many thousands of highly qualified applicants,” Peart said.
“We are proud of Yale’s admissions practices, and we will not change them on the basis of such a meritless, hasty accusation.”
Fortunately, the DOJ has a message for Yale.
Either voluntarily shape-up the admissions process, or the DOJ will sue to force Yale to comply!
Here’s the latest on Twitter over the matter:
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