Michigan Racists Establishment

Stuart Taylor reports on the quota movement in Michigan:

The Michigan preference regime, for example, has approximated subtracting a full grade point from the high school GPA of every Asian and white applicant, treating her A's as B's, her B's as C's, and so on. The median SAT for students admitted in 2005 was 1,160 for blacks, 1,260 for Hispanics, 1,350 for whites, and 1,400 for Asians. And most black students do worse in college than whites with the same SAT scores.

To evade the massive proof of discrimination, Michigan officials use a deceptive dodge. Stressing the importance of factors such as teacher recommendations and essays, officials suggest that these subjective measures of merit account for the vast racial disparities in grades and scores.

But this logic necessarily rests on an unstated assumption that blacks and Hispanics are far better than Asians and whites on these subjective measures -- a naked racial stereotype for which no evidence has ever been cited.

Sort of like the Klu Klux Klan in power.