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He was certainly an informant but the question was, how much was he giving them?'įamily members of Bulger's victims attended the Boston world premiere and told the director he had captured the complicated man. “He denied he was ever an FBI informant and that’s where the film got gray. “Both Johnny Depp and I reached out to Whitey and he explicitly denied us,” Cooper told. University of Texas, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recused herself, so a tie is possible, which would favor the defendant and uphold the status quo of legal affirmative action.More: James 'Whitey' Bulger, notorious Boston gangster, found dead in prisonĭirector Cooper and Depp both tried to delve into Bulger's life to understand the mob-boss who used his leverage as an FBI informant to brutally take out his rivals - as depicted in 'Black Mass.' In sum, the status of affirmative action has been in something of a legal flux. This amendment has since been somewhat modified with the 2003 Supreme Court case upholding the University of Michigan’s use of affirmative action, Grutter v. The libertarian in me gags at the thought of infringing a private institution’s selection criteria, but the aspiring lawyer in me points to the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits race-based discrimination. Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, has flatly denied proposals for affirmative action in the competitive application process for elite public high schools: “You pass the test, you get the highest score, you get into the school-no matter what your ethnicity, no matter what your economic background is.” Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts stated it succinctly in a decision concerning affirmative action: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Many Democrats have, in confidence, heartily agreed with my position. My name is not exactly “Sarah Wigglesworth Hurlbut Coop,” but I am still a legacy, and the thought of its bearing on my admission is somewhat terrifying. I am kept up at night by the thought that simply because my father has attended and donated to the University, I might have taken the spot of a more qualified applicant. My father went to Harvard College, which makes me a legacy. In a way, I am the product of a sort of affirmative action, and it takes a terrible psychological toll. How would you feel if you were assured before going into surgery that your surgeon was the beneficiary of affirmative action in medical school? I do not see why higher academic institutions should lower their standards for admission. Helping those with primarily low academic qualifications into primarily academic institutions makes as much sense as helping the visually impaired become pilots. However, this would be class-based affirmative action, not race-based. Less academically qualified applicants should be treated as such, unless they come from poorer households and therefore do not have access to the same amount of resources as other applicants. However, affirmative action is fundamentally flawed because it uses race instead of targeting these groups themselves. Race-based affirmative action attempts to target these groups: the discriminated against, the poor, and those with unique experiences and intellectual merits.

Counter to most stereotypes, ugliness is highly correlated with poor intellectual performance by traditional measures, though I don’t know how many qualified applicants will be willing to put that down on their application. At least they don’t have to stand in the back for pictures.įinally, what about intellect? Perhaps our universities are in dire need of diversity of intelligence. As if short people didn’t have it bad enough: being refused at roller coasters, being unable to stand in the shallow end of pools, and now, being denied affirmative action. One of the strongest correlations with lower incomes is held by those with lower centers of gravity. Perhaps affirmative action attempts to help those groups heavily correlated with lower incomes. However, women and Jews are indeed overlooked in the affirmative action policies of most schools. It would be hard to overlook women and Jews when considering historical punching bags. Perhaps affirmative action is meant to help those who have historically been discriminated against. So clearly, not just any minority can qualify as a “minority.” Fisher, adorable gingers are not considered a minority (despite red hair occurring in only 1-2 percent of the world population).

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She maintains she was the victim of an admissions process that elevates skin color above academic qualifications and gives unfair advantage to minorities.īut who counts as a “minority” in affirmative action? Unfortunately for Ms. The Supreme Court is in the midst of hearing a suit against the University of Texas at Austin by Abigail Fisher.

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