在这部 12 分钟的纪录片中，哈佛大学二年级学生Muskaan Arshad表示，她在阿肯色州有关种族的经历对她的大学申请至关重要。
“在我成长的过程中，总是有一种莫名的感觉，那就是，作为棕色人种、作为印度人，总是有什么不对的对方。我想我最早经历的种族歧视发生在课堂上的一个让学生手牵手的活动，那时没有人愿意牵我的手。 作为7 岁的孩子，如果你的同龄人因你的肤色而认为你天生就是肮脏的，不愿意碰你，那是一个多么让人深受伤害的经历。这让许多亚裔第一次意识到这样的一个事实，那就是，棕色人种、印度人、亚裔美国人并不被人们接受。”
“我的种族经历塑造了我，也渗透在我大学申请的方方面面。如果不提及我的种族以及它如何成为我生活的一部分，我认为我无法描绘出一个完整的我。”
“才能或高智力不是某些种族群体所特有的，但成功的机会往往被某些种族所垄断。我认为考量种族因素的大学招生政策让大学可以考虑不同种族在机会上不平等的事实。而美国社会往往假装美国一切都是公平的，大学招生不需要考量申请者的种族背景，忽略到处存在的系统性的不公平。 “
多年来，Michael Wang 一直是 Edward Blum 试图通过针对哈佛和北卡罗来纳大学的 SFFA 的诉讼来废除平权法案，并禁止“在教育环境中使用任何种族或族裔”的亚裔美国人面孔。然而，Michael Wang在纪录片中说：
“我想，我启动了一些可能已经失控的事，平权法可能会被完全抛弃，但我并不同意完全抛弃平权法。我认为平权法在帮助真正需要它的少数群体仍然非常必要。”
普利策奖得主，最高法院专家Linda Greenhouse指出：“如果最高法院采取这种最极端的立场-那就是完全抛弃平权法，这些大法官们很可能伤害了整个美国的教育，而不仅仅是精英大学教育。”
Key quotes from Retro Report documentary on affirmative action
In this 12-minute documentary, Harvard sophomore Muskaan Arshad says her experience with race in Arkansas was essential to her college application.
“When I was growing up, there was always this inherent feeling that being brown, being Indian, wasn’t good enough. I think the youngest time I experienced that was when we were doing a class activity that involved everyone holding hands. No one would touch me. Being 7 years old and your peers not able to touch you just because of your skin color and thinking you’re inherently dirty – that was an extremely hurtful moment. This was the first instance of many that really cemented the fact that being brown, being Indian, being Asian American, wasn’t an accepted thing.”
“My race was just essential in every part of my application and who I am. Without mentioning my race and how it was part of my life, I don’t think I could have painted a full picture of who I was.”
“No racial group has a monopoly on talent or intelligence, but certain students do have a monopoly on opportunity. And I think race conscious admissions really takes that into account. We try to pretend everything is equitable, but the systemic issues are right underneath.”
For years, Michael Wang was the Asian American face of Edward Blum’s attempts – through the SFFA lawsuits against Harvard and the University of North Carolina – to dismantle affirmative action and end “any use of race or ethnicity in the educational setting”. Now Wang says in the documentary:
“I think I may have set in motion things that might have been out of control. Affirmative action might just get completely tossed, and I don’t fully agree with that. I think affirmative action is still very necessary in helping minorities who actually do need it.”
Pulitzer prize-winning Supreme Court expert Linda Greenhouse notes that:
“If the Court takes that most extreme position, it’s possible that these justices could basically hamstring all of American education, not just elite college education.”
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