“Whenever you generalize about a group and then try to apply remedies to that group, it always helps those at the top at the expense of those at the bottom … Affirmative action is part of the whole race-grievance narrative. The assumption is that in order for blacks to achieve, then we must dumb down the entry standards.”
Bob Woodson, founder and president of the Woodson Center, shares his thoughts about the recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action programs at universities.
“I’m just absolutely delighted with the court’s ruling, because it ends the presumption that black America is intellectually inferior, and therefore can only achieve and advance if special privileges are extended to us,” he says. “So, I’m really glad that it ends this presumption of incompetence and it will go back to the whole issue of equality of opportunity.”…