Hey Jay, don't get me wrong. There is no more persecuted minority than left-communists--to whatever extent we have seen the end of racism (though D'Souza's book is a good refutation of his own thesis, as I have tried to indicate), we have not seen the end of ideology. The system would probably always favor the appointment of a so-called gender or ethnicity diversity candidate over one of those left commie types. Indeed I am not averse to a ruthless examination of the ways in which phenotypic and sexual orientation diversity has become a substitute for more profound ideological diversity. Indeed this substitution has probably happened at the expense of a few good white men. All the best, Rakesh Bhandari Ph.D Candidate Ethnic Studies >I have three friends (in economics) whose publication/teaching/service >records were objectively better than their white "peers" - all three were >denied tenure (at private colleges). I work for an insurance organization >(in the actuarial division) and, they just hired their first African-American >actuarial student! The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has been >publishing data on the "overachievement" problem. > >Jason H
