'Trump Civil Rights Division Worried About Whites Being Discriminated Against In Ivy League Schools'
'Trump's civil rights division worried about whites being discriminated against in Ivy League schools.' By Joan McCarter, Daily Kos Staff, Aug. 14, 2020.
Just to emphasize how absolutely racist and white supremacist Donald Trump and his administration will be to try to win this election, the Department of Justice has determined that Yale University discriminates against white applicants, continuing the administration's war on affirmative action and a 21st-century, diverse society. To make it not look quite so blatantly racist and to try to pit communities of color against each other to slice away some votes, the DOJ says that Asian Americans have been discriminated against, too. In the letter, Eric Dreiband, asst. attorney general for civil rights, threatened that if the university failed to change its admissions policy, "the Department will be prepared to file a lawsuit." Yale says the allegation is "meritless" and "hasty."
The DOJ wrote to the college's attorneys this week reporting on its 2-year investigation, which concluded that Yale "rejects scores of Asian American & white applicants each year based on their race, whom it otherwise would admit."
Yale issued a statement in which it "categorically denies this allegation." The university said that it cooperated fully with the investigation and has continually provided "a substantial amount of information and data," and that the Justice Dept. reached its conclusion before allowing it to provide all the data the government had requested.
"Given our commitment to complying with federal law, we are dismayed that the DOJ has made its determination before allowing Yale to provide all the information the Dept. has requested thus far," the university said in a statement.
"Had the Department fully received and fairly weighed this information, it would have concluded that Yale’s practices absolutely comply with decades of Supreme Court precedent." The Class of 2022 at Yale is 11% legacy members- students w/ alum family, a population that is likely to be predominately white because of the nature of legacy admissions. In contrast, "only 5.8% of the entire student population identifies as Black. Less than 10% are Hispanic, and under 15% are Asian." That leaves 42.7% of the Yale student body, which is white. Scholars of and in the Asian American & Pacific Islander community blasted the DOJ's allegations, saying that this is a politicized effort to try to split communities of color and the the legacy issue is a larger barrier to admissions.
"It's leveraging the model minority myth to undermine the opportunity to build a multiracial coalition in this country to dismantle racism," says Dona Kim Murphey, a former board member of the Korean American Assn.
Michael Li, senior counsel at The Brennan Center for Justice, calls it "messaging for white people," "It's like 'Hey if you're stuck at a job or not moving up the economic ladder, your income hasn't increased for decades—you can blame people of color and elites for keeping you out of schools like Yale..That's just political messaging for November." Janelle Wong, a professor of American studies and Asian American studies at the Univ. of Maryland and a Yale alum, added, "The message that this sends to the AAPI community is that the DOJ is very interested in dismantling policies that create diversity and increase access...
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