Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year Black students this fall, the lowest number since the 1960s, following last year's SCOTUS decision banning affirmative action
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To be fair, Harvard Law has long been one of the least ethical instructors, even of lawyers. Against all experience, I remain convinced that even lawyers can be taught ethics.
Curious if the representation in the applicant pool remained steady. Are less Black people applying to Harvard (don’t feel it will be safe space) given its role in the SCOTUS case?
It’d be amusing, if it wasn’t so intensely racist. Affirmative action in the US has a history as long as the country. It’s just that it used to be all white males who got preferential treatment.
This is a really stark example of the harm that has already been done to the progress our country had made even if Harris had been elected. Granted she would have likely had the opportunity to appoint justice(s) to help move the Supreme Court away from the extreme right.
The "GOAL" here is to prevent "MARGINALIZED GROUPS" from gaining access to "HIGHER EDUCATION". The less "EDUCATED" you can keep people the more you can" CONTROL THEM"... Just look at the effects of "DIS/MISINFORMATION" regarding the UNDER EDUCATED during the election. -ONE.💯
These institutions have made it abundantly clear (besides the cosplaying white Asians) that they are AntiBlack. Now more than ever HBCUs should see an increase. I'm done explaining the "why". GO where the Fuck YOU are celebrated. The End🎯🛎️
If only there was some sort of critical academic theory that could help us understand and explain the structural, racially motivated inequalities inherent in our society…
So if 19 were enrolled, and the usually number was 40+, those aren’t big numbers to start with- and I am not denying the impact of SCOTUS- just saying, there might be other stuff going on that impacted. And honestly, not sure Harvard is the place anyone should want to go.
You shouldn't have weaponized DEI against other minorities and groups. You should have not over played your hand by using DEI to oppressively police every aspect of campus culture. Now it will be dismantled and discarded forever
The point is to "turn back the clock." It's happening in Higher Education and that has a chilling effect on the who gets to become a lawyer, a judge, a justice in any court in the nation.
The Republicans have been playing the long game, dating back to Nixon, after LBJ signed the Fair Housing Act.
I believe they’re probably going to other big institutions, if they got the grades to qualify for Harvard then they probably want an Ivy League education. Or at least a public ivy (Michigan, Illinois, Penn State, etc.).
Not discrediting HBCUs like Howard, but name brand means a lot to law firms.
Not necessarily. We are beginning to see things aren’t that sweet at PWIs. Just b/c you have a 5.0 gpa Doesn’t mean you have to go to an Ivy League. On top of that just b/c it’s a big name doesn’t mean you’ll get a good job after. HBCUs are abt the connection. The experience.
People fail to realize how many highly successful Black men and women are graduates of HBCUs. VP Harris, Robert Smith...let me stop because there are so many to name lol.
Correct, VP Harris did graduate from an HBCU. The problem is that she went to California San Francisco for her law school. Which is what the article is referring to. Robert Smith went to Cornell and Columbia, two ivy leagues.
I stand corrected regarding Robert Smith. I thought he went to Morehouse. However, the point still stands that HBCUs have very successful graduates, even outside of law school. Too many people think Ivy League schools are the only gold standard of education when they're not.
They are just rich boy clubs. The education from Ivy League schools is not greatly different from a state school. Save your money and get a real education. There are fantastic teachers in State colleges✌️
(1) the enrollment thing is awful and wrong (2) this is a great opportunity to hire great people who are trained at other places and to stop overvaluing the ivys
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HBCU law school applications are up though.
Affirmative action was never about admitting unqualified Black kids.
It was always about ensuring qualified Black kids could also get accepted despite a world of systemic racism.
The “unqualified admission” we don't hear of, are legacy students—like how Kavanaugh got into Yale.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/
You should also read Coates’ essay entitled, “The Case for Reparations”. It’s a very long read, but worth it.
https://bsky.app/profile/samiam411.bsky.social/post/3ldjomehs6s2q
0.034X = 19
X = 19/0.034
X = 559 students in class
The Republicans have been playing the long game, dating back to Nixon, after LBJ signed the Fair Housing Act.
Not discrediting HBCUs like Howard, but name brand means a lot to law firms.