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Has the extra "Covid year" expired?

Bill Blakely coached with that philosophy!

I am in 100% agreement on that 3rd paragraph. And I don't fully believe in "Color Blindness". Often times color comes with different cultural differences that should be celebrated. On the flipside, when looking into an individual person's soul and how God created them, color-blindness can and should be very real. I'm sure there are cases that would prove me wrong, but I think on the whole, if there are 2 nuclear families that live next door to each other in Suburbia, making roughly the same amount of money, one is White & the other Black or Hispanic, that the access to upward mobility (viewing through the lens of college admissions here: things like SAT prep classes, volunteer opportunities, and other factors that could push your application ahead) isn't much different between the two. It would come down to the kid & their disposition/work ethic, mostly. The chasm I see more is between the Suburban, nuclear-family, White kid competing for an admission spot with an urban, single-parent, Black/Hispanic kid. The resources (finances, time, guidance) are vastly different between those two, and if you strip away any sort of protections (in this case, DEI), those resources are usually going to push the first kid through. The second kid doesn't stand much of a chance. Now, if you want to take a deeper dive into the societal structures built over centuries that got those two families where they are, that can & should be discussed/understood separately. But, again, looking specifically through the lens of college admissions, I think you can find a way to help that second kid by taking their economic/family/environmental considerations into account, and you leave the triggering "DEI" term out. I'm sure, as we're seeing with these voucher scams, there would be an outcry from the wealthy that "My kid is being denied based on our family's income!! This is wrong!!". So this would likely eventually get thrown out as well.

No doubt. they beat Memphis by 13 and UAB by 9 back in December.

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