12/7
Learning Target: I can analyze opinions on
affirmative action.
1. Write the date and LT on the RIGHT
hand side of your Interactive Notebook.
Complete the Entry Task Below .
Agenda:
Entry Task
Political
Cartoons
HW:
Annotate
Ogletree
Ogletree
Annotations
Entry Task:
Discuss 172-175.
What was the outcome of Regents v.
Bakke? How did the courts justify their
decision?
Key Concepts:
Affirmative Action
Regents v. Bakke
U.of T. v. Fisher
Brown II
“With all deliberate speed…”
Declared state laws segregating public
schools unconstitutional.
(Marked the beginning of intentional desegregation of
facilities and was based on the idea that
desegregation needed to be aided by the gov.)
Affirmative Action
-attempts to compensate for this country’s history of racial
discrimination by giving some minority applicants a leg up
-school admissions
-job applications
What is the message? What is the artist’s opinion?
What is the message? What is the artist’s opinion?
What is the message? What is the artist’s opinion?
Fisher v. U. of T. -2013
Strict scrutiny
▪Decided that Fisher's only complaint could be
"whether the University's decision to use race as an
admissions factor 'was made in good faith.' ▪ The courts gave deference to the school.
▪ Probably would have ended Affirmative Action had
the courts ruled differently.
What are the benefits of a diverse education?
How much diversity produces these benefits?
Other Issues
In a setting where there is a clear minority, is it right
to assume that the minority represents their entire
races viewpoint/experience?
It is often argued that the language of education is
"white."
Minority students who attend university can sometimes
be criticized by being "too white." Discussion Question for Wednesday:
Should Affirmative Action legislation be repealed?
▪ In preparation for the discussion have:
▪ Notes from class and annotated texts.
▪ 3 discussion extension questions about race/civil rights
issues that might contribute to your discussion of
Affirmative Action.
Charles Ogletree on Regents v. Bakke
Densely annotate- Selection from “All Deliberate Speed”
RALFY
Save to Student Drive OR Google Docs.
Add annotations in a different color.
Charles Ogletree on Regents v. Bakke
▪ “So long as the admissions program does not constitute the type of
quota system of “racial balancing” outlawed by Bakke, it may
admit a “critical mass” of minority students in an effort to obtain a
racially diverse student body. Educational institutions re permitted
to use race as a factor (in the words of Bakke, quoted in Grutter as
a “plus”) in minority admission, so land as the decision to admit
the student is “flexible enough to ensure that each applicant is
evaluated as an individual and not in away that makes and
applicant’s race or ethnicity the defining feature of his or her
application.””
Is this possible? Can one truly evaluate an individual as just
that while still considering their race?
How is race defined/viewed in this scenario, then?
▪ Almost like a cultural background/assumed to have a particular
effect on your character.
▪ Is this always true?