All that Rage that African Americans Are Taking Other People's Spot at College

Not Happening – A Big Conservative Myth

The angry Caucasian reaction to the supposed preferential treatment of minorities is based on a big lie. Over the past decades not only have African Americans not gained in college admissions, they have actually lost ground. From the NYT there is this headline.

Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks
and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented
at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago

What does this mean? It means relative to their percentage of the population African Americans are less represented at college than they used to be. Conservatives will not believe this. They think they are being discriminated against. And they never, ever admit they are wrong.  Of course in their defense, truth and data do have an anti-conservative bias.

"The share of black freshmen at elite schools is virtually unchanged since 1980. Black students are just 6 percent of freshmen but 15 percent of college-age Americans, as the chart below shows."