Standardized tests – SATs and ACTs – are disappearing from undergraduate admissions. Only 20 states, including Washington, D.C., require the SAT for high school juniors. Over of four-year colleges have spurned standardized tests for admissions this year.
The removal of standardized tests is because blacks’ and Latinos’ scores were consistently lower than their white and Asian counterparts on these tests.
Most colleges and universities want equity – not equality. Equity magically equalizes outcomes for all students, depriving those who demonstrate merit-based success from those who can’t. Equity is a way to increase “diversity” on college campuses, granting acceptance to blacks and Latinos over whites and Asians who score higher on their SATs and grade point averages.
The average SAT score in 2022 for Asians was 1229. For whites, it was 1098. For Hispanics/Latinos, it was 964, and for blacks, it was 926. The highest score on the SAT is 1600.
The average ACT score in 2022 for Asians was 24.7; for whites, it was 21.3. For Hispanics/Latinos, it was 17.7; for blacks, it was 16.1. The highest score on the ACT is 36.
I’m glad that the Supreme Court eliminated race-based affirmative action.
If you have yet to read the decision, you should. Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion was acceptable.
Justice Clarence Thomas’ opinion challenged Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s estimation that historical discrimination means the country must engage in contemporary discrimination. Jackson’s perspective reflects those who advocate critical race theory and antiracism, such as Ibram X. Kendi.
CRT Critics Misplace The Blame For Racial Disparities
Advocates of critical race theory claim that academic merit, excellence and hard work are “myths” to preserve “white privilege” and “white supremacy” regarding the racial achievement gaps. Merit-based success and personal excellence are disappearing from our cultural vocabulary. Supporters of CRT want to focus on “systemic oppression” and “institutional racism” to show why racial achievement gaps exist.
“Systemic oppression” and “institutional racism” are not legitimate explanations for why these racial achievement gaps endure. Unfortunately, some people still hold racially discriminatory views. Individual racism is not the same as racial segregation, the paramount example of institutional racism in America. “Systemic oppression” and “institutional racism” ended with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited segregation and discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. Provisions of this act forbade discrimination based on sex and race in hiring, promoting and firing.
If one looks at CRT, advocates of this ideology never explain how “systemic” or “institutional” racism exists. CRT critics state both as facts without explicit examples to prove the conspiracy. Stokely Carmichael and the Black Power Movement continued to use the phrase “institutional racism” after segregation was outlawed. It is up to those who promote CRT to express, specifically, where this racism exists, why, and how since they suggest that systemic racism and institutional racism remain. Their explanations for these ideas are unclear to justify these claims.
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