Well, they can't have it both ways. Either skin color tells us something about how a person should be treated in society or it doesn't. Jackson wants the cops to ignore it, but not the admissions committee. I challenge the idea that racial identity should define how you view the world. After all, they say, blacks bring a unique life perspective to the classroom.
Skin color is merely an accident of birth.
It does not mean someone is smart or ignorant, hard working or lazy, sensitive or unfeeling, artistic or athletic, reads novels or TV Guide. In the final analysis, people are individuals, whose identity is shaped by innumerable characteristics and experiences, of which race is the least important. All policies that classify people and then treat them differently based on race are inescapably a form of intolerable stereotyping. After racial preferences were struck down and minority enrollment shrank at the University of Texas School of Law, a professor remarked that it was unimaginable that he may be forced to teach civil rights law to a class that had only one or two African Americans. His premise would make it necessary to have Jews in a classroom to learn about the Holocaust and Latinos to learn about Cinco de Mayo.