An Important Reminder After the Supreme Court Has Ruled

      If the Supreme Court rules in our favor, and if you come upon news media reporting it as "race-conscious Affirmative Action in college admissions Lost", it is OK. In recent days, most media have used "race-conscious Affirmative Action in college admissions", after 80-20's press release. Please note that affirmative action is very broad. It is applied in 3 areas: (1) employment, (2) government contracts, and (3) school and college admissions.

      However, if the media simply report "Affirmative Action lost", then please do your share & take the time to provide a written comment on such articles. Just state:

      "This case is about Harvard's discrimination against Asian Americans,

      and not just "affirmative action" in the abstract. The supreme court

      has now ruled in favor of the Asian American students. This is a

      victory against discrimination of all oppressed groups, including

      blacks and Hispanics."

      Thank you for doing YOUR share.

Inside Stories from the Supreme Court

      Want to read an intriguing article by Harvard Law Professor Jeannie Gersen who used to clerk for Supreme Court Justice David Souter? Here are some direct quotes from her article in New Yorker.

      "Twenty years ago, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote, in a draft opinion, that white applicants could not be favored over Asian Americans. Why did she delete those lines—and why did Justice Clarence Thomas adopt them in his own opinion?"

      "Admissions outcomes for Asian Americans were not necessarily tied to affirmative action for Black and Latino applicants; a school could conceivably have used race to boost underrepresented minorities without creating a ceiling on Asian Americans. But that would have meant allowing Asian American to cut into the share of white students in the class. So, for decades, liberal support of affirmative action for underrepresented minorities seemed to come with tolerating, denying, or ignoring an unspoken disfavoring of Asian Americans in favor of white students."

      "The silence extends to liberals on the Supreme Court. In Fisher v. University of Texas, an affirmative-action case from 2016 in which a white female plaintiff complained of racial discrimination in favor of underrepresented minorities, the liberal Justices, joined by Justice Anthony Kennedy, found U.T.'s admissions program to be lawful. Justice Samuel Alito devoted his dissent to explaining how U.T.'s own evidence showed that it actually discriminated against Asian Americans. He wrote that his colleagues in the majority "act almost if Asian-American students do not exist." (all emphasis added by S. B.)

      In other words, as far back as 20 years ago, many Supreme Court Justices, including Justice Sandra O'Connor, have already noticed that AsAm applicants to colleges were being discriminated against in order to favor the white applicants.

      For example, Harvard's emphasis on diversity was actually a misdirection ploy. The huge advantage provided to other minority applicants was simply a trick to get people's eyes off the ball. Harvard's hidden "personality rating"*,

which was exposed by SFFA's lawsuit, rated on the average blacks the best, hispanics the second, whites the third, and AsAms the worst. The small advantage provided by the personality rating to the white applicants, who are large in number and are academically only slightly worse than AsAms helped to get many whites in, and kept many AsAms out. Please note that the "personality rating" was completely subjective.

      If you want to see a superb quantitative backup for the above qualitative description, please click here to read a 80-20 EF e-newsletter issued on Dec. 7, 2017 and entitled "We Seek Justice & Present Forensic Evidence against Harvard". Focus on the graph in that e-newsletter. Harvard's personality rating added the equivalence of SAT points to blacks, hispanics and whites relative to AsAm applicants, since AsAms have the worst personality ratings. A slight

undue advantage in SAT points got many white applicants in and kept many AsAm applicants out, since college admission is a zero-sum game.