OCR Issues Decision on Princeton Case on Alleged Discrimination against Asians

[OHMomof2]

OHMomof2 wrote:
hat’s really the crux of it, yes. And if they do, and the Stuy kid is Asian and the potato farm kid is black or Hispanic…then it seems that will be perceived as evidence. Even if the Stuy kid comes form a poor family.

A potato farmer kid from Idaho is most likely to be white, since >80% of Idaho’s population is white. The second highest potato producing state is Washington, which is about 70% white.

Yes, I realize that Idaho is pretty white, ucb. I’m not sure what your point is.

But if you want to nitpick here, if the kid is a farmer’s kid in the sense that his parent(s) WORK on the farm rather than OWN the farm, the kid could very well be Hispanic, about 70% of ag workers are. In fact the kid could BE the farmer, since ag workers lack the child labor regulations that other types or workers have. Or, the kid could be black because prisoners are being used to work farms in Idaho now that there’s been a crackdown on illegal Mexican immigrants working them. And even in white Idaho, black people are disproportionately represented in Idaho state prisons (and actually quite a few are native American too).

So, if the Idaho farm kid IS white, and the NYC Stuy kid is Asian, will the Idaho kid’s acceptance be taken as evidence of discrimination against Asians? Maybe, but I’m not hearing a ton of attacks on preference for white people in this thread, more against URMs. For instance:

But it’s intellectual dishonesty to not acknowledge that the racial percentages changed significantly at previously race-conscious HOLISTIC schools that went to race-blind HOLISTIC (e.g. UMich, UCs, Florida, etc).

^ these are places AA was eliminated.And Asian enrollment did increase, and URM enrollment decreased.