It’s the same everywhere: Social quacks are busily ruining the lives of their own constituents via “Affirmative Action”, including the Da’as Torah-following quacks over at Gimmel and Shas doing so for Charedim, Sefardim, and both.
Roshei Yeshiva and Marans pride themselves on clarity of thought, eh? They can’t think straight, nor do they bother with the facts!
Dr. Sowell reviews “Mismatch” by Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr., a book echoing what he has been documenting for many years.
Quoting the Amazon blurb:
Sander and Taylor have long admired affirmative action’s original goals, but after many years of studying racial preferences, they have reached a controversial but undeniable conclusion: that preferences hurt underrepresented minorities far more than they help them. At the heart of affirmative action’s failure is a simple phenomenon called mismatch. Using dramatic new data and numerous interviews with affected former students and university officials of color, the authors show how racial preferences often put students in competition with far better-prepared classmates, dooming many to fall so far behind that they can never catch up. Mismatch largely explains why, even though black applicants are more likely to enter college than whites with similar backgrounds, they are far less likely to finish; why there are so few black and Hispanic professionals with science and engineering degrees and doctorates; why black law graduates fail bar exams at four times the rate of whites; and why universities accept relatively affluent minorities over working class and poor people of all races.