Word: souza
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...Souza, the author of Illiberal Education and The End of Racism and a current fellow of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, began by conceding that racism exists in any big country but challenged students to "show me a racism strong enough to prevent me from realizing my potential...
Citing differences in test scores between blacks and whites from similar backgrounds--even on exams which he believed to be unbiased--D'Souza argued that "it is not discrimination but merit which is producing inequality [in higher education...
...Using race as a proxy for being disadvantaged is very dubious [in America today]," D'Souza said...
Supporting the idea of merit even if it resulted in "an unfortunate and embarrassing situation," D'Souza gave the example of the NBA as a non-controversial organization based on merit which still "does not look like America...
...Souza claimed that affirmative action in present day America goes "[against the] basic principle of justice [which is] to compensate the person who has been harmed and punish the persons who have been the aggressors...