ATTENTION: Blacks are 12% of the population but 80% of the NBA. From now on, all NBA teams must limit the number of blacks on their team to no more than one third the number of spots. That's right, black players will just have to be a tad better, a tad faster, a tad taller than their white counterparts to make the team.

ATTENTION: Jews make up less than 1% of the world's population but over 20% of Nobel Prize recipients. From now on, only one Jew will be alloted a Nobel Prize every other year in each category. That's right, if you're Jewish, you're just going to have to strive for bigger/bolder discoveries than your Gentile peers if you want equal recognition.

Do you find either of the above two examples disturbing? Then surely you should be concerned about the continuing, blatant discrimination against Asian Americans in higher education, most egregiously practiced by our "liberal" and "open minded" Ivory League professors. Because what's happening there is THE EXACT SAME thing as the quotas that used to be imposed on Jews in the first half of the 20th century.

For the latest evidence of this phenomenon, see The Boston Globe article here on Asian American college admissions. Money quote:

"Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade, who reviewed data from 10 elite colleges, writes in “No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal’’ that Asian applicants typically need an extra 140 points to compete with white students."

140 points! That's right, if you're Asian, you have to score 140 points higher than your white peers to be on the same footing.

I never understood for the life of me why progressive Asian Americans aren't championing this cause. If ever there was such a blatant, highly personal injustice to unify us, this would be it. I can think of no plausible reason why Asian Americans should be tolerating this.

But, you say, wouldn't the university life be less enriching if it were so exclusively dominated by Asian Americans?

Why doesn't anyone ask this of Jews, who likely make up 40% of the population at Harvard? Oh whoops, they already did. Harvard University tried to limit their admissions to 15% of the population (right about the same % as Asian Americans at Harvard today), until some Jews decided to fight back:

Starr insisted that there could be no “Jewish problem” at Harvard or in America. Starr observed, “The Jew cannot look on himself as a problem.... Born or naturalized in this country, he is a full American.” If admitting all qualified Jews to Harvard meant a change in the traditional social composition of the student body, so be it.

C'MON FOLKS - WE ARE NOT THE PROBLEM - WE ARE FULL AMERICANS! WAKE UP! This is a serious problem. Frankly, we shouldn't be quibbling over the latest Hollywood slight or marching in arms with our "brothers and sisters of color" (with whom we share only a partial agenda) as much as we should be mobilizing against the RACIST WAR on Asian American talent right here in the US of A!