Good
News 1: Our Message Has Reached the Masses
When a popular
cartoon points to the unfair treatment of Asian Am students, our message has reached the masses.
MALLARD FILLMORE: by Bruce Tinsley
The words referred
to in the astrid * are "Espenshade and Radford, Princeton
University Press", the source for the facts cited in the cartoon.
Good News 2: Lawsuit Against Harvard Started to Stop the Unfair
Treatment
(a) The Hero Behind the
Court Action -- Ed Blum
Ed Blum has fought
against race-based laws all his life, with notable success. He was the engine behind the
"Fisher vs. Univ. of Texas". He got the Supreme Court to rule that "strict
scrutiny" must be used by courts to decide whether a university is justified in using
race-preference admissions to achieve diversity. He is now tightening the screw.
He has
recruited some very high caliber Asian Am. students as plaintiffs, with 80-20's help. Blum's org., Students for Fair Admission, now
takes Harvard to court to see if Harvard can pass the
"strict scrutiny" standard. NAACP took this kind of incremental steps to eventually
win EQUAL rights for the blacks.
Note that the
"Fisher vs. Univ. of Texas" fought for white and Asian students.
In the Harvard lawsuit, Mr. Blum
fights for Asian Am. students ONLY, perhaps because Asians are discriminated the most
and therefore represent the strongest legal argument.
Give some credit to 80-20 which
argued that we are the most discriminated.
(b) The Substance of
the Lawsuit
". . . The Harvard lawsuit alleges the university is engaging in a campaign of invidious discrimination by strictly limiting the number of Asian Americans it will admit each year and by engaging in racial balancing year after year. These discriminatory policies in college admissions are expressly forbidden by the Fourteenth Amendment and federal civil rights laws.""Students for Fair Admission's complaint highlights data and analysis that strongly suggests that white, African-American, and Hispanic applicants are given racial preferences over better qualified Asian-Americans applying for admission to Harvard."
Click on www.studentsforfairadmissions.org to
join Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA). S. B. Woo has. He is
also in contact with Ed Blum and Tom McCarthy, one of
the lead lawyers in this lawsuit. 80-20 works for you and
gets results.
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Commentary On Wealthy Asian
and Asian Ams Donating to Harvard
Rich Asians are beginning to donate to public causes -- a good thing!
Elaine Chao's family donated $40 million to Harvard in 2012. Gerald
Chan of Hong Kong pledged $350
million to Harvard this year. Donating to Harvard, a great university, is
a good thing. But Harvard is not perfect. It was well-known that
Harvard designed admissions policies
to limit the number of Jewish students beginning in 1920's. It would be
nice if the
Asian BIG donors to Harvard would publicly request it to re-examine its admissions policies towards
Asian students at the time of their giving. That'll make them not only
wealthy and generous but also wise and remaining connected to the still
discriminated Asian Americans.
S. B.
Woo, a volunteer
President,
80-20 National Asian Am Educational Foundation, Inc.
http://www.80-20EF.org
