Equity Redefined

It is interesting to see that the Supreme Court has taken up the diversity issue in regard to admissions at Harvard and UNC. The WSJ has echoed my Slant’s sentiments that noted the progressive alteration of the term equity from its original definition, meaning equal treatment, to the currently coded implication of equal outcomes. Equal outcomes, regardless of satisfying requirements that, are predictive of success. The fact that Asians are handicapped by over 400 points and whites some 300 off their SAT scores when compared to Black applicants should be enough evidence to give anyone pause. Meritocracy must still have its place in America if we are to succeed on the world stage. Who chooses their heart surgeon or their airline pilot based on skin color?  Apparently, we do. Both medical schools and the airlines have admitted to lowering their standards for admission to their programs for applicants of color solely for the purpose of achieving diversity in their ranks.  The argument that the community demands people that look like them sounds hollow in the real world. Who on their deathbed refuses the services of the white chief of cardiothoracic surgery because he doesn’t look like them?  Who, upon boarding an aircraft, turns back because the pilot is white? Yet the horrible side effect of all this is that truly well-qualified people of color in those positions will now be looked at askance, automatically assumed to have benefitted from race-based admissions. Knowing admission preferences occur to this extent, how many will be branded racist for unease when encountering people of color in positions for which they may be less qualified? Yet another example of progressive policy that will further sow division in America.