The U.S. Naval Academy apparently uses a form that allows Annapolis families that want to sponsor—i.e., open their homes to—midshipmen to express a preference for students on the basis of race. Even if you think that it’s benign discrimination for black families to want to sponsor black kids, for example, it’s a bad precedent for the federal government to get involved in facilitating racial discrimination of any kind. Change the form.
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Roger Clegg serves on the board of the Center for Equal Opportunity, where he was formerly president and general counsel.
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