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Disparate Impact Is Wrecking Us, by Douglas Andrews – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post, April 9, 2024

In a scathing essay on the effects of racial excuse-making on public policy, Heather Mac Donald pulls no punches.

Does counting by race make a nation stronger or weaker? More talented or less talented? More competitive or less competitive?

Put another way, would the just-concluded NCAA men’s basketball tournament have put out a better product if it enforced a strict limit of 13% of its players being black? That, after all, is the percentage of the American people who are black. What about the NFL? What if strict quotas were enforced to ensure that 71% of its running backs, wide receivers, and cornerbacks were white? What about hip-hop artists? Concert pianists? Mechanical engineers? Brain surgeons? Airplane pilots?

These are the sorts of questions that fearless Heather Mac Donald poses in the latest issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis monthly, titled “Disparate Impact Thinking Is Destroying Our Civilization.” (If the title doesn’t pull you in, we don’t know what will.) …

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