Does affirmative action work? An explosive study that suggests it does not is pitting the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights against the State Bar of California in a battle over admissions data that could determine once and for all if racial preferences help or hurt minority students.
"Currently only about one in three African-Americans who goes to an American law school passes the bar on the first attempt and a majority never become lawyers at all," says UCLA law professor Richard Sander.
In an article published in the Stanford Law Review, Sander and his research team concluded several thousand would-be black lawyers either dropped out of law school or failed to pass the bar because of affirmative action.
So, wait a minute. This story is a bit misleading here. What are the statistics for white law school applicants? What about Hispanic?
The bar exams are color blind. You're either right or wrong about a question asked during those tests. To tell you the truth, I don't think Affirmative Action should be in existence. Why? Say you've been arrested for a crime you did not commit. The evidence suggests you did it (faulty eye witnesses, etc.). Do you want a lawyer to defend you who actually passed the test because he's smart, or do you want a guy who's a lawyer only because he's black?
Now it becomes clear the unforeseen problems of Affirmative Action doesn't it? You hire the best man/woman for the job, regardless of color, religion, age, or sex. Do that, and your company will prosper. Start hiring people simply because some idiot decided that the workforce should be a rainbow of people, then you'll start seeing productivity and competitiveness head south very quickly.
Besides, if you fail the bar exam and then quit, I don't want you as my lawyer. If you fail, then try harder and pass, that means you've got the "stick to it-ivness" that I want in an attorney.
But others don't see it that way:
"There is no answer but to give him the information," says black civil rights attorney Leo Terrell. "What is the state bar afraid of? We need to know."
Well there's a problem with that Mr. Terrell:
"The release (bar exam) applicants sign does not allow us to release the information to third parties," Whitnie Henderson told FOX News. "Looking at all the information we just decided it was not something that fit within the committee’s purview."
You see, there's a release, which is a form of a contract, that forbids them to share that information with a third party. You're an attorney, and you should know that.
Travis
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