Thomas Sowell on Black Students and Affirmative Action nearly echoes Justice Scalia

Judge Antonin Scalia made comments about African American black students and Affirmative Action that were similar to the stance that Thomas Sowell has been saying for many years. Thomas Sowell is a famous black economist and has been a long-time member of Academia. Sowell has seen first-hand the negative effects of race based discrimination in the admissions process.

Many black students are placed into programs that they should not be in. He mentions an example of black math students at MIT being in the top 10 percent in mathematics in the nation when they are in high school, but they wind up in the bottom 10 percent at MIT. Had they gone to a school that was still elite, just not as elite as MIT because of race-based preference, then they would succeed.

Since the admissions are raced based, there will also be raced based institutions and racial tension within these colleges. Black students wind up getting bad grades and join together for moral support. This creates segregation. Rumors start to float about teachers intentionally grading black students poorly. When, in fact, black students do often get worse grades than other races at many of these schools, simply because they are mismatched with the school, not because of their skin color.

But the inevitable race-based institutions within these colleges don't explain this fact to black students. They push the victimhood narrative and say that the white man is against them. Therefore, racial tension becomes worse. So instead of a well-rounded, well-educated student who attends a good college, you have a jaded and struggling student at an excellent college.

This video is a short excerpt from a 2013 conversation on "Uncommon Knowledge" hosted by Peter Robinson of Hoover Institution.

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Thomas Sowell discusses his newest book, Intellectuals and Race; also speaks of Affirmative Action and how it is not effective.