Idiot makes argument for 'affirmative action' based on family financial status, thinks she is arguing for race-based quotas

My favorite quote, explaining why her SAT scores were low: "Many of the SAT questions were simply irrelevant for me as an African-American, and my parents couldn't afford to send me to classes to help boost my score."

I'll come clean here. My SAT scores were high - but this is NOT because the SAT questions were "relevant for me as a white American." SAT questions aren't relevant to anyone, especially anyone who's 17. It IS in part because I studied, using FREE BOOKS CHECKED OUT FROM THE LIBRARY. But that's probably not relevant to the author either.

Next good quote: "Diverse student bodies help all students work through their differences and acquire skills needed in today's workplaces." Because these are, of course, the goals of a liberal arts education. And besides, if one hasn't attended a diverse school so that he can witness the self-segregation of minorities that inevitably occurs, can he really be said to have learned anything? It is clearly impossible to learn about verb declension without at least one Laotian and/or Lithuanian within 10 feet of each non-Laotian/Lithuanian student.

The idiot proceeds: "the corporate world still has much work to do. Next week, the Rev. Jesse Jackson's annual Wall Street Project will again challenge corporate America to end its trade deficit with minority vendors, employees and consumers. 'That does not reflect a talent deficit, but an opportunity deficit,' Jackson rightly says. 'We did not know how good baseball could be until everybody could play. We don't know how good the capital market can be until everybody can play.'''

And we don't know how good sex can be until everybody on our personal staffs can play either, right, Reverend? And what a terrible metaphor! In the case of baseball, seasoned and able baseball players from the Negro Leagues improved the level of play in white baseball leagues. So, in fact, we DID know how good baseball could be. That knowledge, based on the performance of players in the Negro Leagues, was part of the motivation for integrating the game. In the case of the job market, this metaphor does not hold. Sorry, Reverend, but most major corporations are already way past diversity among employees and working to establish diversity among suppliers when possible. But there is NO trade deficit. Maybe instead of simply declaring there is one, the Rev. can produce for us a list of five (5) minority-owned companies who offer excellent services/products to Fortune 500 corporations but cannot find work. I would love to see it, but anticipate that reading a good review of the movie Tremors is far more likely.

What a complete idiot. And hey, her company just happens to sell consulting services on "diversity and inclusion consulting!" And this is an op-ed? They should have made her pay for advertising space.

This is why I hate the fact that my mother and her husband read USA Today. I think it would be healthier for the mind to ram one's head against a wall vigorously each morning.