Abigail Fisher claims she didn’t get into the University of Texas at Austin because of her skin color. Fisher’s lawyers argue the school violated her constitutional rights by taking race into account when it denied her admission.
“There were people in my class with lower grades who weren’t in all the activities I was in, who were being accepted into UT, and the only other difference between us was the color of our skin,” Fisher says in a YouTube video. “I was taught from the time I was a little girl that any kind of discrimination was wrong. And for an institution of higher learning to act this way makes no sense to me.”
Fisher has pale skin and bright red hair. Welcome to a bizarro world in which many whites believe they are the victims of discrimination. Now the Supreme Court seems determined to make a statement on whether universities can consider the race of applicants.
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