Al, the champion of lowering standards.
Via The Independent:
Legendary civil rights campaigner Reverend Al Sharpton has condemned Oxford University for failing to admit enough black students, arguing the institution has an “exclusionary admissions strategy”.
The acclaimed TV and radio talk show host, who spoke at the Oxford Union on Tuesday night, questioned how such a prestigious institution could have what he described as a retrograde racial diversity policy.
Rev Sharpton, who was a White House advisor to former president Barack Obama, said that 95 per cent of the crowd he addressed at the union was white.
His comments come after it was revealed that more than one in four of Oxford’s colleges failed to admit a single black British student each year between 2015 and 2017.
Last month, figures revealed several of the most prestigious colleges – including Balliol, University and Magdalen – each admitted two black British students as undergraduates during the three-year period.
Overall, white British applicants were twice as likely to be admitted to undergraduate courses as their black British peers. While 24 per cent of the former gained entry, only 12 per cent of the latter did.
“You see places as prestigious as Oxford with an exclusionary admissions strategy,” Rev Sharpton told The Independent.
“Oxford can figure out the most difficult aspects of philosophy and explore the intricacies of science but can’t figure out how to get admissions of black students. It seems contradictory – how could you be so bright and so dumb at the same time?”
“Ninety-five per cent of the crowd was white. I told them they need to work with groups like Operation Black Vote, who I have been coming to the UK with since 1991.”