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...would love to see Harvard pay more attention to the needs and demands of all minority groups. Hundreds of colleges have African-American student centers and multi-cultural centers that are devoted specifically to the advancement of groups that have been historically and systematically oppressed. Gender and racial markers, however, are not to be conflated—all these groups experience oppression in unique ways and you’ve probably noticed that women, as a particular “minority,” exist across all lines of race and culture...
...legal system. What makes Toby's praise even more unusual is that he's an Aboriginal man in a nation where indigenous people and the justice system have long had an unhappy relationship. Aborigines, or Kooris as they're called in Victoria, are the most over-represented racial group in the state's jails: 12 times more likely than other Victorians to be in prison. But Toby has just come out of Courtroom Four in the outer-Melbourne Broadmeadows Magistrates Court, where a radical new approach to curbing indigenous crime is under way. Here, every two weeks conventional hearings...
...rightly wary. With a significant number of admissions already going to legacies, athletes and other prominent groups, increasing the quota for foreign students only cuts the number of spots for your “average” American high school student even further. This makes attempts at increased racial and socioeconomic diversity even more difficult...
...state interests in protecting "the life of the fetus that may become a child." In the University of Michigan affirmative-action cases last year, she grounded her opinion in contemporary practical interests rather than immutable philosophic principles. "We expect," she wrote, "that 25 years from now the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today...
...acceptable social activities, to shackle her to the residue of slavery and other injustices of the past. The simple truth is that her grandmother, her great-grandmother and all the great-great-grandmothers before them never experienced one day of life free from the harsh decrees of state-sponsored racial repression...