Duke Law Journal Allegedly Sent Memo to Minority Applicants Offering Extra Points to Write About Race
“To drive home the point, the packet included four examples of personal statements that had gotten students on the law review.”
Higher education’s fixation on race is not good for the country. This is outrageous.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Duke Law Journal Sent a Secret Memo to Minority Applicants Telling Them They’d Get Extra Points for Writing About Their Race
At the end of finals period each May, the Duke Law Journal hosts a two-week-long competition to select its next crop of editors. Applicants write a 12-page memo, or casenote, analyzing an appellate court decision, as well as a 500-word essay about what they would “contribute” to the journal.
Students are chosen based on their grades, casenotes, and personal statements. Less than 20 percent of the class makes it onto the law review, which is overseen by Duke Law School and has no legal existence apart from it.
To help students prepare for the competition, the journal circulates a guide on how to write the casenote. Last year, however, it decided to give some students an additional document.
In a packet prepared for the law school’s affinity groups, the journal instructed minority students to highlight their race and gender as part of their personal statements—and revealed that they would earn extra points for doing so.
The packet, obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon, included the rubric used to evaluate the personal statements. Applicants can earn up to 10 points for explaining how their “membership in an underrepresented group” will “lend itself to … promoting diverse voices,” and an additional 3-5 points if they “hold a leadership position in an affinity group.”
To drive home the point, the packet included four examples of personal statements that had gotten students on the law review. Three of those statements referenced race in the first sentence, with one student boasting that, “[a]s an Asian-American woman and a daughter of immigrants, I am afforded with different perspectives, experiences, and privileges.”
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Some of this stuff is just unbelievable. Whose idea was it. Black grifters who see nothing wrong with it or white progressive Karens trying to uplift the black man?
Or, third, whipped-puppy administrators knuckling under to “community leaders”.
Socialist agitators, working to undermine capitalism by destroying meritocracy.
It’s every man (or woman) for himself. Except for whites, for whom it’s racist. I’ve long been amazed that it hasn’t been seen to be in bad taste, for racial or gender group members to explicitly promote their own identity. It’s not like a black person saying “Chinese are great” or vice versa, but each promoting themselves. In old morality that would be seen as brutish and frankly beyond the pale — they would have been quietly disqualified. Instead now it’s become acceptable, praised, loud and proud. The whole society has become disgusting with this stuff.
They must have a surfeit of women, because there was no explicit bonus for being female.
I remember first noticing this racism in the ’60s, when “black pride” was acclaimed, but the rejoinder of “white pride” was denounced. My reaction, along with the great bulk of Americans, was, “just shut up and let them have their cookie.” I console myself that I had to learn from this experience myself because there were no previous others’ experiences that I (at least at that age) could have learned from.
so how was it known who was a minority in the first place?
and if they knew that..that right there should provoke a lawsuit against the school by wht people who were obviously discriminated against
“In a packet prepared for the law school’s affinity groups,”
The key passage in the example text is “I am afforded … privileges.” That discrimination is the heart of the racist Left.
Gee. Doesn’t this sound a whole lot like the FAA scandal, where the FAA established a particular qualifying test for ATC applicants, then fed (only) the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees answers to some of the crucial questions so their student members could ace the exam?
“Communications reportedly instructed recipients to keep the information confidential and to share it only with African Americans, women of all backgrounds, and other minorities, explicitly excluding white males.”
And those minorities reliably all kept the secret.
Screw them all.