The California Collection/TheCaliforniaCollection.cdr/his059/bbb15.lzh/BBB15.TXT

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BBB:The results of the Civil Rights Act

   Allan Bakke, a thirty-two-year-old American of Norwegian
descent, applied for admission to the University of California Medical
School in 1973, and again in 1974. HE WAS REJECTED BOTH TIMES. The
school acknowledged that he was QUALIFIED IN EVERY WAY FOR ADMISSION,
but that he was rejected due to a special program for minority
students, and that sixteen places out of an entering class of one
hundred were reserved for minority students. THESE MINORITY STUDENTS
DID NOT HAVE TO MEET THE MINIMUM GRADE POINT AVERAGE DEMANDED OF OTHER
APPLICANTS FOR ADMISSION! This "affirmative action program" reduced the
number of available slots for NON- MINORITY STUDENTS to eight-four,
which had already been filled at the time of Bakke's application. (This
is what Jesse Jackson and Dukakis referred to as "affirmative action"
or "social justice." What it means is, that you have to hire a man who
is UNQUALIFIED for the job, you have to admit a student who is
unqualified to attend, if he is the RIGHT COLOR. If he's the WRONG
COLOR, you don't have to hire him.) Read 'em and weep! That's the work
of a "CIVIL RIGHTS ACT" of 1964. It's about as right and civil as Jim
Jones' Guyana settlement.