The “diversity” mindset that dominates in higher education insists on pigeon-holing people into groups they supposedly “represent.” The University of Connecticut recently did that with a grad student in English, very much to her detriment. The student, a woman who is mixed black and white, won a prestigious and valuable award on her merit, only to later discover that she had been given a less valuable award based on “diversity” because the university needed someone for it. Read about this case in this press release by the Center for Individual Rights.

I seem to recall hearing a line about evaluating people on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.