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Great Post in GD about today's Affirmative Action decision
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023087056Poster provides background on the young woman that was selected by Blum to file suit.
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From the article ...
Nor did they acknowledge the 168 black and Latino students with grades as good as or better than Fisher's who were also denied entry into the university that year. Also left unsaid is the fact that Fisher turned down a standard UT offer under which she could have gone to the university her sophomore year if she earned a 3.2 GPA at another Texas university school in her freshman year.
In an interview last month, Blum agreed Fisher's credentials and circumstances make it difficult to argue -- as he and his supporters have so ardently in public -- that but for her race Fisher would have been a Longhorn.
"There are some Anglo students who had lower grades than Abby who were admitted also," Blum told ProPublica. "Litigation like this is not a black and white paradigm."
In an interview last month, Blum agreed Fisher's credentials and circumstances make it difficult to argue -- as he and his supporters have so ardently in public -- that but for her race Fisher would have been a Longhorn.
"There are some Anglo students who had lower grades than Abby who were admitted also," Blum told ProPublica. "Litigation like this is not a black and white paradigm."
But THAT spot ... the one occupied by THAT one negro was supposed to be HER spot!
