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RACIAL AND ETHNIC quotas are arbitrary. In many cases determining whether someone is a Mexican-American, a white or a black can only be done through arbitrary official definitions. Questions like what is a Spanish surname, and how does the state classify someone who has one white and one black parent, can only have arbitrarily legal answers. The necessity of having legally established racial definitions and assigning these labels to people is another Nazi-like trait of quota systems...
...described a weak pool of Puerto Rican applicants from New York. "We ought to do better there, but I'm unable to get alumni to give it the time. Somebody's got to go visit some pretty tough schools." Another group this to the distance separating Cambridge from the Mexican-American pool. Reardon attributes this to the distance separating Cambridge from the homes of Mexican-Americans, which are mainly in California...
...Plunkett's athletic triumphs and praise have been matched with personal hardships. His Mexican-American mother, who lives in San Jose, Calif., is blind as was his part-Irish father who ran a tobacco shop before he died in 1969. Plunkett and his two older sisters helped to support their family when they were on welfare. In high school, he worked in gas stations and grocery stores, and between summers in college, he joined construction crews...
Mario G. Obledo, former general counsel to the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, said Friday there is "no way [affirmative action] is going to work in higher education... it's doomed to failure...
...started as a virtual dilettante, making a brief tour of Mississippi in 1962 to learn something about race problems. In 1968, he took part in demonstrations for ending the Viet Nam War, his main cause. In 1969, Brown briefly trudged California's dusty roads with Cesar Chavez, the Mexican-American who was leading his crusade to organize migrant farm workers...