Civil Rights Commissioner to University of South Carolina: Diversity Program Excluding White Students Violates Civil Rights Act and Constitution
June 21, 2022 | South Carolina
A University of South Carolina (USC) business school “diversity” program that appears to have accepted students of all races – except white – received the attention of one of the U.S. Civil Rights Commissioners, who wrote to inform the school’s interim president such racially exclusionary policies violate both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the U.S. Constitution.
Speaking for himself, and not the entire U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Peter Kirsanow wrote Thursday to Harris Pastides, USC interim president, about the Business Success Academy at the school’s Darla Moore School of Business.
In the letter to Pastides obtained by The Star News Network, Kirsanow referred to a report in May at Campus Reform that observed the Moore Business Success Academy’s three-day workshop “is not accepting applications from White students.”
Since the media report last month, however, the link to the program now shows the application form has been “deactivated.”’
Campus Reform reported:
“Students must identify as African American or Black, Hispanic, LatinX, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian, Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or Two or More Races,” the application requirements read.
“Apparently, white students need not apply,” Kirsanow wrote.
Campus Reform, a project of the Leadership Institute that self-describes as “a conservative watchdog to the nation’s higher education system,” reported obtaining an email from the Moore School of Business Office of Diversity and Inclusion “that stipulates the same race-based prohibition as the online application”… (Excerpt from The Virginia Star)
