Radical egalitarians are relentless and will not rest until the very idea of “merit” is banished and all the goodies are divided (selectively) according to race/ethnicity. Unfortunately, New York City is the latest battleground in this campaign. With the NAACP Legal Defense Fund leading the way, all the while cheered on by Mayor Bill De Blasio, their latest target is New York City’s eight academically elite high schools. Here a single highly demanding math, verbal and logical reasoning test (the SHSAT), and nothing else, decides admission. According to the NAACP’s interpretation or Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, SHSAT is discriminatory since blacks and Hispanics receive lower scores and thus are disproportionally rejected by these elite schools. In other words, the NAACP believes that racial equality demands racial/ethnic quotas. The problem is that Asians disproportionately pass the admissions test. At the prestigious Stuyvesant HS 73% of the...(Read Full Article)