Harvard records show racial discrimination against Asian-Americans
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University killed an internal investigation in 2013 that found evidence the Ivy League school's admissions system is biased against Asian-American applicants, a nonprofit group suing the university alleged in a court filing on Friday.
The claim by Students for Fair Admissions Inc came in a brief that sought to have a federal judge in Boston rule in its favor without a trial in a closely watched lawsuit accusing Harvard of discriminating against Asian-Americans.
The group, headed by prominent anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum, said evidence showed that Harvard had allowed race to become a dominant consideration in considering applicants rather than just a legally allowed "plus" factor.
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"Incontrovertible evidence shows that Harvard's admissions policy has a disproportionately negative effect on Asian-Americans vis-à-vis similarly situated white applicants that cannot be explained on non-discriminatory grounds," the group said in its brief.
It said that in 2013, a Harvard research division found that over a decade Asian-American admission rates were lower than those for whites annually . . .
But the group said Harvard ultimately killed the study and buried the reports from it.
In its brief, Harvard called the lawsuit by Blum's group "the latest salvo by ideological opponents of the consideration of race in university admissions."
Of course the consideration based on race goes back a long way. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. himself, another "ideological opponent of discriminating on the basis of race" is famous for confronting that:
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
When iot comes to college admissions, currently there's even more racial discrimation against Asian-Americans then there is against Whites!