Affirmative Action: Who does it really help? | Thomas Sowell

The Unspoken Myths Behind Affirmative Action | Thomas Sowell

"Jojo" documents the Absurdity of "Positive discrimination" (AKA "Affirmative action")

Mindy Kaling's older brother claims he posed as a black man to get into medical school

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Sitcom star and comedienne Mindy Kaling's older brother claims he got into medical school in the late 1990s by posing as a black man. Vijay Chokalingam - Mindy's full name is Vera Mindy Chokalingam - has been pitching a book over the last month that documents his experiences of changing his appearance in an effort to get accepted to medical school as a way to discuss what's 'wrong' with affirmative action. And though Chokalingam, a graduate of the University of Chicago, claims he applied to schools in 1998 as a black man, he does not specify if he applied to the same ones as an Indian-American man. 'I was determined to become a doctor and I knew that admission standards for certain minorities under affirmative action were, let's say… less stringent?' he wrote on his website, AlmostBlack.com.

Comment: AlmostBlack Facebook page (with extensive documentation). Picture above is from AlmostBlack.  This by the way is a reverse "Black Like Me" (a very good book). More: AlmostBlack.com; DailyBeast article on the same; Vijay Ingam on LinkedIn (screen shot below). #EndAffirmativeAction

Chris Rock pictures the reality of Racial profiling

Chris Rock’s police stop selfies stir up controversy

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If you’re following comedian Chris Rock on Twitter, you’ll know that in the past two months, he has been pulled over by the police three times. Each time, he’s posted a selfie to WhoSay, a social celebrity magazine. One time, he was a passenger in the car.

Comment: Twitter feed (much of which is profane ... but screen shot is from this feed). #EndRacialProfiling

Fauxohontas Warren

Massachusetts Senate debate begins with discussion of Warren’s Cherokee heritage

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The first official debate between Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren began Thursday with a discussion about Warren's Native American heritage.

Brown devoted his opening remarks to accuse Warren, a Harvard Law School professor who says she is part Cherokee Indian, of using her background to give her an advantage when competing for jobs throughout her career.

"The professor said she is a Native American, a person of color, and you can see she's not," Brown said in the first moments of the debate, echoing an attack line that has dogged Warren throughout much of the race this year.

Comment: My lovely wife is actually 1/64 American Indian (we have the records to prove it). She's never claimed "affirmative action"! By the way ... time to end all Affirmative Action programs!