Harvard is a genius at marketing. Although certain metrics may place other schools, such as the UofC or Stanford, ahead of Harvard, Harvard/Yale/Princeton are still seen as the best. And quite naturally, ambitious people are going to want the best. Asians are ambitious and I can't knock their hustle. I wish more black folks had that type of ambition. But the sad part about all of this, and for many second or third generation immigrants, including many West Africans, is that because they are not familiar with the smaller nuances of America and really don't understand it's history, they land here thinking this is an equal society and if you have ambition and hustle, that merit will take you along far. And that may be true up to a certain point. What they don't understand is that America, at its foundations, is founded upon whiteness as a race and it's supremacy. There may be enough Asians and West Africans alone qualified to fill up the entire student bodies of HYP. The fact of the matter, that's not going to happen, because these institutions are synonymous with white American power and prestige, and the administrators and alumni are not going to allow a demographic shift of that nature.
I'm not even sure why "other minorities" was even mentioned in the suit, because they know, as well as everyone else, that the spots that they are jockeying for, are the white students. They are just not ballsy enough to admit it. "Other minorities" is just a scapegoat.
Immigrant communities need to understand that, in this country, they will only be as free as the native black population here. The sooner they rally around our cause and fight for civil rights, the sooner they will start to see more advancements in their own communities. If they continue with trying to "separate" themselves and prop themselves up as "model minorities" to gain white acceptance, they play right into the hands of white supremacy and further systemic inequality.
At these Asians who think the Ivy Leagues, which are symbols of American identity and power, are going to allow their schools to have predominantly Asian student bodies.
