In an address at Eden Center in Falls Church Senate candidate, Corey Stewart vowed to oppose race being an issue in college admissions. Like many Americans, Stewart believes college admission should be race blind.
Currently Asians face the most discrimination in college admission. Corey Stewart wants to see that end. Many Asians work hard in high school, challenge themselves, and have exemplary grades. Often in applying to universities, Asians face stiff competition with each other because those schools will not admit all qualified Asians because they want their schools racially balanced. From the Washington Post:
“I don’t think that anybody should be punished because of their race,” said Stewart, surrounded by about 20 mostly Vietnamese supporters inside the Eden Center, a Vietnamese American mall in Falls Church. “We know that quotas are illegal under the Constitution.”
The best high school in the country, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, practiced affirmative action until 1997 when the school and Fairfax County Public schools were sued for excluding more qualified students to allow their preferred racial mix. Since then the school and FCPS have spent millions of dollars and many, many, programs in their efforts to increase the number of certain races at TJ which would suppress the admission of some qualified Asians and white. Nothing they have tried has been successful. Without blatant racial discrimination, TJ admissions office has been unable to get their desired racial mix. The latest TJ admission statistics show a class with 65.2% Asians because Asians cannot be discriminated against in a public school. That is not the case with colleges and universities. They need not be race blind and they can discriminate against Asian students. Corey Stewart wants to change this practice. He wants a law passed that would require universities to be race blind in their admission policies thus ending discrimination based on race. Stewart will support such a law in Congress.
More from the Washington Post:
“Is it okay for universities to practice racial discrimination at the universities against kids?” Stewart asked the small crowd, eliciting shouts of “No!”
“Regardless of our skin color and the origin of our ancestors, my money is as good as yours . . . and my children’s SAT score is as meaningful as your children’s,” said Daniel Feng, board member of a conservative group called the Chinese American Alliance.
Stewart also attacked Kaine, arguing that by supporting diversity programs, he is “okay with using race as a basis for keeping people out of our universities.”
“Regardless of our skin color and the origin of our ancestors, my money is as good as yours . . . and my children’s SAT score is as meaningful as your children’s,” said Daniel Feng, board member of a conservative group called the Chinese American Alliance.
Stewart also attacked Kaine, arguing that by supporting diversity programs, he is “okay with using race as a basis for keeping people out of our universities.”
Corey Stewart is right. It’s way past time for colleges and universities to be race blind in their admssion practices and stop discrimination based on race.
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