Sentence examples for race preference from inspiring English sources
To Ward Connerly, the regent who led the campaign to end race preference in university admissions, the shift is simply a redistribution of students to where they should be.
MOLLY CORBETT BROAD President American Council on Education Washington, Oct. 3, 2012 First, we should dispense with the euphemistic term "affirmative action" and replace it with an accurate description, such as "race preference".
The data also includes same-sex couples, which tend to favour girls (both male and female partners), even more than heterosexual couples.The race preference could stem from the desire that the adopted child resemble the parents (most adoptive parents are white), and perhaps even pass for a biological child.
But ethnic groups are themselves too diverse to flatten into a "race preference" category.
And this reduced race preference effect was not fleeting; it endured for at least 24 hours.
The Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole rages against what he sees as the race preference, and points out that the Trump administration is loaded with those of Irish descent.
The supporters of race preferences counter that the country cannot end affirmative action without first fixing the education system.
Ward Connerly is the chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute and author of "Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences".
Although Mr. Connerly had expressed concern that the change would allow race "to be used through the backdoor," he endorsed the measure after wording was added stipulating that no race preferences of any kind could be applied.
The splintered decision in Bakke struck down the admissions system at the medical school of the University of California at Davis, which had specifically reserved seats for minorities, but Justice Powell said that attention to diversity could justify some race preferences that promote "speculation, experiment and creation".
UC admissions aren't affected, because gender and race preferences were ended last year by the UC regents (Science, 1 August, p. 633).
