Bobert: I looked at the TV until I just couldn't do it anymore, but I couldn't find you among the hundreds of thousands of marchers. I tried to summon a bit of sympathy for you because of the bitter cold, but then I was reminded that you are doing what you feel is right, and that you wanted to be there. I thought coverage of the protests was pretty good myself.

But as to the topic at hand. Racial diversity and the University of Michigan. Most posters agree with you, Bobert, and I'm sure you find some solace in that. However, (not to burst your baloon) there was an article in my newspaper today written by Jay Jacoby of The Boston Globe, that the majority of the people in the U. S. disagree with that POV.

It was reported in the Washington Post (hardly a bastion of conservatism)that "in a nationwide poll respondents overwhelmingly opposed racial preferences. That view cut across groups: 86% of blacks, 94% of whites, 88% of hispanics, and 84 percent of Asians agreed that college admissions (as well as hiring and contracting) "should be based strictly on merit and qualifications other than race or ethnicity."

I would provide a Blue Clicky, and tried, but dumb old me didn't succeed. The title of the article, should any be curious enough to read it online is, "The fig leaf of diversity."

DougR