WFB: At the end of finals period each May, the Duke Law Journal hosts a two-week-long competition to select its next crop of editors. Applicants write a 12-page memo, or casenote, analyzing an appellate court decision, as well as a 500-word essay about what they would “contribute” to the journal.
Students are chosen based on their grades, casenotes, and personal statements. Less than 20 percent of the class makes it onto the law review, which is overseen by Duke Law School and has no legal existence apart from it.
To help students prepare for the competition, the journal circulates a guide on how to write the casenote. Last year, however, it decided to give some students an additional document.
In a packet prepared for the law school’s affinity groups, the journal instructed minority students to highlight their race and gender as part of their personal statements—and revealed that they would earn extra points for doing so.
The packet, obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon, included the rubric used to evaluate the personal statements. Applicants can earn up to 10 points for explaining how their “membership in an underrepresented group” will “lend itself to … promoting diverse voices,” and an additional 3-5 points if they “hold a leadership position in an affinity group.” more
That should qualify them to lose any and all federal funding now and in perpetuity
@ how about twerking?
Twerking only applies to black females of enormous girth. Do they get any extra points if they submit their applications written in ebonics. Duke wants their next black law student to eventually become the next Ketanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court totally ignorant of the law.
And they say that conservatives are the racist ones.
I know this is purely hypothetical, but what if they submit their essays in cursive? Of course they can’t submit their applications online because they don’t have access.
^^^ Of course cursive. Every other word is “mothefu..er” and “ho”. They shore do know how to curse.
Gutfeld has spent quite a lot of time explaining why DEI results in everyone — black, white, brown, whoever — questioning the qualifications of all minorities, especially when it comes to putting your life into their hands (pilots, doctors, nurses, engineers, and the like). As it stands, there is no way to tell who is a DEI hire and who isn’t.
I also saw a short of Charlie Kirk on a campus declaring the same problem. He asked one of the pro-DEI people if they would worry to know their pilot was a black woman. Charlie said yes, he would probably even take another flight. This elicited some gasps and groans from the woke crowd, but there was no denying the truth of his honesty in the age of DEI.
DEI has set back minorities a hundred or more years. No one, if they are honest about it, can disagree that standards and qualifications have been thrown out the window in order to accommodate racial quotas. In a different manner, this is also what happened to our uniformed services, including law enforcement. There used to be strict standards of fitness in order to qualify for and keep your job, above and beyond which jobs required the strength of a man in order to perform them.
Our country is more stupid in so many ways. Geoff C. just read a Sowell quote (para): “I’m so old that achievements were something to admire, not turned into a grievance.”
Cause the one thing we really need in this country is more black lawyers and judges who never should have qualified for a slot in a law school in the first damn place thinking they’re God Almighty
Might explain how KBJ got her promotion to SCOTUS.