B*****g 发帖数: 34098 | 1 Dear friends,
I am writing to you regarding the serious violation of equal protection,
injustice, and discrimination inflicted by racial preference policies, in
particular affirmative action in college admissions, which almost every
college-bound Asian American student is confronted with today. They need
our help.
America is poised to become a majority-minority nation. In fact, several
states have crossed that line. Based on the current demographic shift shown
in Census data, by 2043 or sooner, it’s projected the whole country will
become a majority-minority nation. Furthermore, the changing national
demographics helped President Obama win two elections. Nobody could argue
that Obama’s 2008 win is an anomaly. Today, not only do minorities hold
influential positions in all 3 branches of the government but also many are
successful leaders in business, sports, academia, news media, etc. The
critical mass is reached.
As minorities gain in population and political power nationally, racial
preferences given to particular groups are likely to come under fire and
scrutiny from public opinions and the judicial courts, if not already.
Increasingly, racial preference affirmative action is an inadequate weapon
in the war against inequality and in fact is now causing more injustice and
inequality problems than it is intended to solve. Can you imagine a race-
based preference for Asian athletes in the NBA or the NFL? (See article “
What If the NBA Had Quotas”)
It is unfortunate that many American universities and colleges, including
prestigious private and public institutions that educate our future leaders,
are still secretly and illegally practicing social engineering using racial
preference, quota, and race-based point system in their admission process.
The evidence of these widespread practices and the discrimination against
Asian Americans are overwhelming and have been extensively documented (more
on this later). Moreover, historical college admission data and comparative
statistical analyses show that discrimination are systematic and
institutionalized in most Ivy League universities, including Harvard,
Princeton, and Yale, as well as many public universities, such as the Univ.
of Texas and the Univ. of Michigan. As a result, many lawsuits and
complaints were filed against these universities by students of several
races in the past decades.
College and university admission process is complex and multifaceted. And
nobody doubts there are many criteria to assess a student’s aptitude,
capabilities, and characters across many dimensions, such as academic merits
, socioeconomic status, community service, personal drive and aspiration,
citizenship, etc. But, in this day and age, we should not believe that race
is one. A student’s race has nothing to do with his or her qualifications
. Race-based affirmative action is nothing but a form of racial
discrimination and self-righteous social engineering.
Inspired by a powerful paper “The Myth of American Meritocracy”, and at
the same time, frustrated by the silence of the rights groups and the lack
of voice in Asian American community concerning the hardship and
discrimination faced by many Asian American students, I started a virtual
community on Facebook - Asian Americans Against Affirmative Action (AAAAA).
AAAAA intends to promote racial equality and social justice through equal
access, personal responsibilities, and colorblind or race-neutral policies.
AAAAA is against race-based admission policy which is now widely adopted in
many higher institutions.
The AAAAA Facebook page has a wealth of information on the topic of
affirmative action including an exhaustive collection of historic events,
important court cases, interviews of leading intellectuals, literature,
reviews, debates, articles by thought leaders, books by prominent scholars,
reports, commentaries, op-eds, links to blogs, videos etc. I hope you find
it resourceful and informative.
If you don’t want to live a society where our children are afraid of
telling their race or ethnicity to colleges (See article “I am not Asian”)
, if you don’t want to live in a society where racial preference is given
to one group or groups over others, if you don’t want to live in a society
where our nation’s most prestigious universities consciously social-
engineer our future, then race-based affirmative action should be defeated
and outlawed by the highest court and every state (In fact, Arizona,
California, Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire and Washington have
banned racial preferences in college admissions).
Please support this initiative by visiting and liking the AAAAA Facebook
page and forwarding this message to your friends, families, and relatives
and ask them to support as well. We invite people of all races, not just
Asian Americans, to join this fight for racial equality and justice.
Together, we can raise the public awareness, influence policy makers, and
work towards abolishing the race-based affirmative action policy once and
for all.
Happy New Year and Best Regards,
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Asian Americans Against Affirmative Action (AAAAA)
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