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Up in Cambridge, MA, they’ve got a special love for diversity, as long as you’re talking about racial preferences and reverse discrimination, and not political or ideological diversity.

A group of Harvard students recently pinned an op-ed in the Harvard Crimson, explaining why judging applicants by the color of their skin is a great moral good:

We, the Black Community Leaders, must express how thoroughly disappointed many members of our community are at recent, public misrepresentations of affirmative action. As leaders and members of various cultural and ethnic groups on campus, it is our responsibility to respond to such blatant inaccuracies.

We were deeply disheartened by the assertion that students who benefit from affirmative action are less qualified than their peers. Aside from the fact that Harvard’s community of color is rich with exemplary students, the recent piece, “Affirmative Dissatisfaction,” also fails to recognize the importance of diversity, including the diversity of race. Furthermore, moving toward an exclusively class-based affirmative action policy, as alternatively suggested, ignores the continued importance of race in decision-making at all levels of American civil society. Unlike many in the majority race, minorities can expect to experience racially prejudiced interactions in almost every part of their daily lives, regardless of their elevated socio-economic or educational statuses…

(Read the rest of the op-ed here.)

To summarize the above paragraph, it looks like the largely upper class black students at Harvard don’t want to give a leg up to poor black students in the ghetto. Instead, they want to keep all of those racial benefits for themselves.

The dirty secret of affirmative action in college admissions is that an enormously disproportionate number of students who benefit from racial preferences are from wealthy families. Even the left-leaning Washington Monthly admits that “black affirmative action beneficiaries are often wealthy.”

Help the rich and screw the poor–all in the name of diversity. There’s liberal/progressive equality for you.

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