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According to the Guardian,  an Ohio man drove his car into a crowd of protesters who of which he violently apposed. The man (James Field) was arrested with counts of murder and failure to stop at an accident where death was present. I believe this man either committed this act of violence to show his bigoted beliefs on race, or simply pure violent motives as it has been noted that he was a Nazi ans white supremacist sympathizer.

This is awful. Actions of violence should never be used in order to display a political view. This was completely unacceptable.

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A man has been arrested and charged with murder after a car rammed into a group of people peacefully protesting against a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring 19.

Police said a 32-year-old woman had died and that they were attempting to notify her family before releasing more details.

Col Martin Kumer, the superintendent of Albemarle-Charlottesville regional jail, told the Guardian that 20-year-old James Fields, of Ohio, had been arrested following the attack on Saturday.

"He has been charged with second degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and failing to stop at an accident that resulted in a death," Kumer said in an email.

Donald Trump condemned the "violence on many sides", but faced criticism for failing to directly denounce the far-right demonstrators.

In a separate incident, two police officers died when their helicopter, which was monitoring the far-right rally, crashed outside Charlottesville.

State police said in a statement the helicopter was "assisting public safety resources with the ongoing situation" when it crashed in a wooded area. The pilot, Lieutenant H Jay Cullen, 48, of Midlothian, Virginia, and Trooper-pilot Berke Bates of Quinton, Virginia, died at the scene.

The deaths came at the end of a day marked by violent clashes between far-right nationalists and people who had come to protest against their occupation of a downtown park containing a statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee.

Witnesses said those hit by the car were peacefully protesting against the white supremacist rally and footage showed the vehicle crashing into another car, throwing people over the top of it.

Virginia governor says 'go home' to white supremacists and nazis - video

The photographer Pat Jarrett, who witnessed the incident, said: "A gray Dodge Charger plowed into a sedan and then into a minivan. Bodies flew. People were terrified and screaming. Those closest to it said it was definitely a violent attack. The driver, who people later described as a skinny white guy with a straggly beard, reversed out of there and drove off, the front end of his car all smashed up."

Charlottesville mayor Mike Signer tweeted: "I am heartbroken that a life has been lost here. I urge all people of good will - go home."

Speaking at a press conference on Saturday evening, the governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, who had earlier declared a state of emergency, told the white supremacists: "Go home ... Shame on you. You pretend you are patriots, but you are anything but a patriot."

The mother of Fields told the Associated Press on Saturday night that she knew her son was attending a rally in Virginia but didn't know it was a white supremacist rally.

"I thought it had something to do with Trump. Trump's not a white supremacist," Samantha Bloom said, before becoming visibly upset as she learned of the injuries and deaths at the rally "He had an African-American friend ...," she said before her voice trailed off.

Responding to the events in Charlottesville from Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump: "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides."

But the Republican senator Marco Rubio tweeted that it was important for Trump to describe the events as a "terror attack by white supremacists".

The FBI said it was opening a civil rights investigation into the accident along with the justice department's civil rights division and the district attorney's office.

The US attorney general, Jeff Sessions, said: "The violence and deaths in Charlottesville strike at the heart of American law and justice. When such actions arise from racial bigotry and hatred, they betray our core values and cannot be tolerated.

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WATCH: White nationalists and counter-protesters clash at Charlottesville rally https://t.co/4qH1yJjrGy
August 12, 2017

The car attack came about two hours after state police in riot gear had cleared Emancipation Park, the site of the Robert E Lee statue. The city's decision in February to remove the statue drew earlier protests by the "alt-right" and the Ku Klux Klan.

Riot police cleared the park after almost an hour of clashes. The far-right groups were largely compliant, but had to run the gauntlet of counter-protesters as they walked west along Market Street.

After a brief stalemate, a hard core of about 100 far-right protesters moved to a park two miles away and gathered to hear speakers who had been scheduled for the "Unite the Right" event.

One of the speakers, the far-right figurehead Richard Spencer, said he had been maced on the way in and lashed out at police and city authorities.

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Rescue personnel help injured people after a car ran into a large group. Photograph: Steve Helber/AP

"Never in my life have I felt like the government was cracking down on me until today," said Spencer. "We came in peace and we were effectively thrown to the wolves."

He said that they would not back down from protesting against the statue. When he mentioned Mayor Signer by name, the crowd chanted: "Jew! Jew! Jew!"

Around the park, members of the far right were nursing and treating minor wounds. One of them, who declined to give his name, was bleeding from the head, and claimed to have been struck with an iron bar. Another young man, with a swastika tattoo on his chest and blood on his forehead, told photographers: "If you take my picture, I'll cut you. I'm not even kidding."

Meanwhile, counter-protesters were trying to stop the far-right groups from entering the park. Some counter-protesters, including many marching under red and black anti-fascist banners, tried to block the streets. This led to altercations with far-right groups, who were seen using chemical weapons, sticks and shields on people.

A group of clergy linked arms to block a set of stairs leading into the park. The Rev Seth Wispelwey, of Sojourners United Church of Christ in Charlottesville, said: "We're here to counteract white supremacy, and to let people know that it is a system of evil and a system of sin."

Steve Thomas, from Lynchburg, Virginia, who also protested against the far-right groups, said: "I think that what we are witnessing here has always been simmering beneath the surface, and now has been emboldened and enabled by the Trump administration's politics and rhetoric."

Statue controversy

In February, the city council narrowly voted to remove and sell the Robert Lee statue, and to rename the park in which it stands from Lee Park to Emancipation Park. This was the culmination of a campaign to remove the statue started by a local high school student, Zyahna Bryant.

It was part of a wave of such removals of Confederate monuments across the south, which began after Dylann Roof massacred nine African American churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina.

In response, last May, Richard Spencer led a torchlit white nationalist parade around the park. Then, on 8 July, about 50 members of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held a rally in the park, and were greeted by about 1,000 counter-protesters. The day ended in turmoil after police used tear gas on some counter-protesters following the Klan's departure, and made 23 arrests.
Ben Jacobs and the Associated Press contributed to this report

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Man charged with murder after driving into anti-far-right protesters in Charlottesville

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A man has been arrested and charged with murder after a car rammed into a group of people peacefully protesting against a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one person and injuring 19. Police said a 32-year-old woman had died and that they were attempting to notify her family before releasing more details.

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According to the men and women in the video, the N-word is something that only certain groups of people can morally use. I disagree with this. I'd like to preface my statement by saying that I do not condone anyone using words of derogatory meaning.

That being said, It is wrong to allow one group of people to do something, and completely disallow another group to do it as well. The suppression of speech by any group to another in unconstitutional and against american principles.

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After the National Football League made the controversial decision to ban the n-word on the field this year, a team of Washington Post journalists explored the history of the word, its evolution and its place in American vernacular today.

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This article states that the teaching of Huck fin should be done with sensitivity and caution while still outlining the ant-slavery notion that Huck Finn Produces. There is controversy over Huck Finn because of its constant use of the N-word (over 200 times).

I agree that the novel should be taught with respect however what is written in a book cannot hurt anyone. The racism in Huck Finn should be depicted and displayed in a fashion in which students can understand the awful affects of racism.

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According to the New York Times , the Affirmative Action Act says that all students have equal opportunities of acceptance compared to other students. However, this is potentially unconstitutional and utter racism against more deserving or harder working students.

As I previously said; this is wrong. Your race or ethnicity should never change the chance of you being accepted or chosen for a position.

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Even if the Supreme Court limits the options, college and universities will "be seeking diversity by any legal means possible," said Ada Meloy, general counsel of the American Council on Education.

But a decision overturning affirmative action could produce a national pattern of more liberal states going further to mimic the current system than more conservative states. Defenders of affirmative action are most likely to see any new system as unfair to black and Hispanic students, while critics will still see it as unfair to whites and Asian-Americans.

The current nationwide standard is based on two decisions involving the University of Michigan in 2003, when the Supreme Court ruled that public universities could not give an applicant an automatic advantage based on race or ethnicity. But in a decision written by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the court also ruled, 5 to 4, that colleges could consider race and ethnicity as part of a case-by-case assessment of individuals.

Since 2003, the court has shifted rightward, with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., a critic of preferences, replacing Justice O'Connor.

In February, the court agreed to hear Fisher v. University of Texas, a challenge to the university's admissions policy, fueling speculation that it could revisit the standards it set nine years ago. The Texas system admits the top students at every high school in the state, but also admits additional students with a system that takes race into account.

The court has many options, including leaving things as they stand, finding that universities are interpreting the Michigan case too loosely, altering it, or overturning it completely. And it remains unclear how any ruling would affect private colleges, which rely heavily on federal financing.

Perhaps the best glimpse of a future without the current version of affirmative action comes from the handful of states that have already outlawed the use of race in public college admissions.

After California voters approved such a law, black and Hispanic freshman enrollment at the University of California system dropped by about one-quarter in 1998, the first year the ban was in effect. At the system's most competitive campuses, in Berkeley and Los Angeles, enrollment for those groups fell by almost half.

In the years since, the system has tried several approaches to increase diversity without directly taking race into account, and the numbers eventually rose.

Black students accounted for just over 4 percent of University of California freshmen in the mid-1990s. That fell to 3 percent after the law took effect, and remained there for several years, before climbing close to 4 percent in recent years.

Hispanic enrollment stood at 14 to 15 percent of the total before the ban, and fell to 12 percent in 1998, but quickly began to climb, driven by California's fast-rising Latino population. By 2010, that group accounted for more than 22 percent of the system's freshmen.

"If we had affirmative action as one of our tools, we'd do somewhat better for Hispanics, and we'd probably do significantly better for African-Americans," said Mark G. Yudof, president of the University of California system.

A central part of California's effort has been to compare applicants with other students in their communities, rather than with students statewide, much as Texas does. At each high school, the top 9 percent of students are guaranteed admission to the University of California - though not necessarily to the campuses of their choice - as long as they meet some other criteria.

Officials acknowledge that the aim is race-conscious but that the mechanism is race-neutral.

Florida uses a percentage-based system as well. There, as in California and Texas, the benefits go mostly to Hispanic students because of the large number of high schools that are predominantly Hispanic. Black students are spread among high schools with large numbers of other students.

In California, arguably the most liberal state to have banned affirmative action in admissions, the university system has gone further to increase minority enrollment. The system has expanded, adding a new campus and increasing enrollment at existing schools.

The Berkeley campus, and later U.C.L.A., also adopted an admissions approach called holistic review, reducing the emphasis on grades and test scores while taking a broader look at students' experiences and the challenges they have overcome.

"I do think you're going to see a move toward a more holistic admissions system" in other states, Mr. Yudof said, especially if the Supreme Court rolls back consideration of race. His system is pushing all of its campuses in that direction.

Some of the public universities in Washington State, where voters banned affirmative action in 1998, use a holistic approach, as does the University of Michigan.

Richard H. Sander, a U.C.L.A. law school professor who studies the issue, says that the holistic approach is also loose enough to allow race to be an unacknowledged part of the equation, potentially violating state law. University officials insist that their systems are race-blind.

In Washington, Hispanic and black enrollment at state universities did not change much after the law went into effect, but at the state's flagship, the University of Washington, it fell for a few years, before returning to its former level. At the University of Michigan, minority enrollment fell sharply after the law took effect in 2007, and has not rebounded. Black students made up more than 10 percent of the freshman class a decade ago, and 7 to 8 percent in the years just before the law, but that has dropped to a little over 5 percent in recent years.

As for the Fisher case, Professor Sander pointed to the crucial role of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, widely seen as the swing vote. He predicted that rather than overturn the standards it set in 2003, the court would amend them or alter the way they are carried out, restricting the use of race without eliminating it. "This hinges on Kennedy," Professor Sander said, "and Kennedy usually likes to do half a loaf."

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Even if the Supreme Court limits the options, college and universities will "be seeking diversity by any legal means possible," said Ada Meloy, general counsel of the American Council on Education. But a decision overturning affirmative action could produce a national pattern of more liberal states going further to mimic the current system than more conservative states.

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According to Inside Ed Education, different racial groups need different standards in order to be accepted into College or University. Asians require higher scores than other groups such as whites and blacks. Higher Ed says that a black student will have the same chance of admittance with a 27.0 ACT score compared to an Asian with a 30.8.

I believe this is terribly wrong. In my opinion, the smartest and most qualified person should be the first picked person. As soon as race is brought into a conversation when only fact matters, all of the merit to ones acceptance is gone.

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The admissions world focused on issue of affirmative action last week with an intensity not seen since the U.S. Supreme Court last year ruled that the University of Texas at Austin's admissions plan met constitutional standards. That ruling reassured many admissions professionals who consider race and ethnicity in admissions.

So they were surprised -- and many were angered -- when first The New York Times and then others reported that the U.S. Justice Department plans to investigate and sue colleges over alleged illegal discrimination in admissions. Then came word from the Justice Department that the focus was a suit against Harvard University claiming that the institution discriminates against Asian-American applicants.

The Justice Department hasn't sued anyone, let alone won court backing for its view. But the news renewed complaints from some Asian-American groups that colleges discriminate in unfair ways against Asian-American applicants. And stories were shared of Asian applicants with perfect grades and test scores getting turned down by top institutions.

The data (as opposed to anecdotes) support arguments that might be used by those charging discrimination -- and also some that might be used on the other side. There are studies that suggest Asian-American applicants need to have higher grades and test scores than other applicants (including white applicants) to gain admission to top colleges.

But there are also data showing that, as a proportion of the U.S. population, Asian-Americans fare well beyond their numbers in admission to top colleges. Asian-Americans make up about 5 percent of the population of public high schools in the United States and were 22 percent of those admitted to Harvard's freshman class this year. Asian-Americans make up 26 percent of the undergraduate enrollment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Of course, those numbers may not reflect the full extent of qualified Asian-American applicants. And there is no consensus on what data would actually demonstrate illegal discrimination.

Following are summaries of what some of the data show and some of the key legal developments on the issue of alleged discrimination against Asian applicants.
Do Colleges Consider Race in Admissions?
Yes, but only some of them do so. Much discussion about affirmative action suggests that nearly all colleges consider race in admissions. Most don't.

More than two-thirds of colleges reported to the National Association for College Admission Counseling that the race and ethnicity of applicants has "no influence" on admissions decisions, and only 3.4 percent said that it has "considerable influence." Many critics of affirmative action argue that colleges don't tell the truth about their practices. In this case, however, a key fact is that the vast majority of colleges are not competitive in admissions and admit a majority of those who apply. (The elite private and public institutions one reads about in discussions of affirmative action are in fact atypical of higher education.)
Do Asian-Americans Outperform Other Students on Measures of Academic Performance?
The SAT and ACT are one part of admissions at most competitive colleges. Data released by the College Board last year don't provide for great comparisons, because a new version of the SAT had just been introduced, making it difficult to compare results from year to year. But data from the College Board from 2015 show Asian-American test takers outperforming other students, as seen in the table below. Further, the data show that, since 2006, Asian-Americans are the only racial or ethnic group to see gains in SAT scores, and that the gaps between their scores and those of other groups have grown substantially.
Mean SAT Scores by Race/Ethnicity, 2015 Combined SAT Score, and Changes Since 2006, by Race/Ethnicity
Similar patterns may be seen in ACT scores.

Also relevant may be scores on Advanced Placement tests. In 2015, the College Board reported that 72 percent of Asian test takers in the previous academic year earned at least one score of three on the AP exam (the level generally seen as indicating success), compared to 66 percent of white students, 50 percent of Latino students, 46 percent of Native American students and 32 percent of black students.
Do Colleges Hold Asian-American Applicants to Higher Standards?
One of the most controversial questions being debated is whether patterns in the average grades and test scores of members of various racial and ethnic groups demonstrate discrimination. Most competitive colleges use "holistic" admissions, meaning that they look at a variety of factors and don't use formulas or grids in admission.

It is also true, however, that some studies (including by educators sympathetic to affirmative action) show large gaps in the ACT and SAT scores of admitted students at top colleges and universities. One of the most cited studies comes from a 2009 book, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life (Princeton University Press), which analyzed data on 9,000 students who attended one of 10 highly selective (and not identified) colleges and universities.

The research produced a grid showing the test score "advantage" or "disadvantage" for various groups who were admitted. The "advantage" referenced, to take an example from the book, is what it would take to have equivalent odds of admission, after controlling for other factors. So the table's figure of a 3.8 black ACT "advantage" means that a black student with an ACT score of 27 would have the same chances of admission at the institutions in the study as a white student with a score of 30.8.

The table uses ACT scores for public institutions and SAT scores for privates. The "norm" score was considered white for the race section, and middle class for the class section.
Advantages by Race and Class on the SAT and ACT at Selective Colleges, Fall 1997
In an interview when the book came out, Thomas J. Espenshade, a sociologist at Princeton University and co-author of the book, said he did not think his data established bias against Asian-American applicants because he did not have access to "softer variables," such as teacher and high school counselor recommendations, essays, and lists of extracurricular activities. It is possible, he said, that such factors explain some of the apparent SAT and ACT disadvantage facing Asian applicants.

At the same time, he said he understood that these numbers would not reassure Asian applicants or those who believe they are suffering discrimination. "I understand the worry of Asian students, but do I have a smoking gun? No," he said.
What About Admission Rates?
Another Espenshade study, this one with Chang Chung, a senior staff member in Princeton's Office of Population Research, looked at data from elite colleges to see what would happen if race and ethnicity were eliminated from consideration. The study appeared in Social Science Quarterly in 2005.

The study found that, without affirmative action, the acceptance rate for African-American candidates at elite colleges would be likely to fall by nearly two-thirds, from 33.7 percent to 12.2 percent, while the acceptance rate for Hispanic applicants probably would be cut in half, from 26.8 percent to 12.9 percent.

White applicants would have seen little change in this analysis. Their admission rate would rise slightly, to 24.3 percent, from 23.8 percent.

The big gains would be for Asian applicants. Their admission rate in a race-neutral system would go to 23.4 percent, from 17.6 percent. And their share of a class of admitted students would rise to 31.5 percent, from 23.7 percent.
Do Those Kinds of Numbers Demonstrate Bias?
To many critics of affirmative action and some advocates for Asian-American applicants, such data constitute a smoking gun. But to government investigators so far, that's not been the case.

In 2015, the Education Department cleared Princeton University of bias against Asian applicants -- after a nine-year investigation in which it reviewed such data.

The reason Asian-American applicants have such a tough time getting into Princeton, OCR concluded, was that everyone has a tough time getting into Princeton.

The OCR report found that there are so many highly qualified applicants to Princeton that the university rejects many with stellar if not perfect academic records. And OCR found that Asians could also be found among some of the less than perfect applicants, as well.

"The university told OCR that 82 percent of the valedictorians in the applicant pool for the Class of 2010 were not admitted, and over 50 percent of applicants with perfect SAT I scores of 2,400 were not admitted," the OCR report said. "The university added that for the Class of 2010 -- for which the university admitted only 1,790 students -- there were more than 6,300 applicants who had SAT scores of 750 or higher on the math portion of the test, and there were more than 4,800 applicants that year who scored 750 or higher on the verbal portion of the SAT. More than 5,600 applicants for the Class of 2010 alone had GPAs of 4.0 or higher."

Princeton also told OCR (and the agency confirmed), "that less than stellar grades or test scores do not mean that an applicant is automatically foreclosed from admission. OCR in its file review found examples of applicants who did not have the highest quantifiable qualifications, such as grades and test scores, who were nonetheless admitted by the university based on other qualities and the overall strength of their applications. Some of these applicants were Asian.

"The university reported to OCR that the university 'frequently accepted to the Class of 2010 applicants from Asian backgrounds with grades and test scores lower than rejected non-Asian applicants.' The university gave OCR specific examples of Asian-American applicants for the Class of 2010 whose grades and SAT scores were not near the top of the range usually seen by the university's admissions officers, but who nonetheless were offered admission. These included an Asian-American applicant who had 'only' a 3.45 GPA in high school, but who was a nationally recognized athlete; and two other Asian-American applicants with relatively low GPAs and SAT scores who were notable for other distinctions such as community service, overcoming impoverished backgrounds and working in a family business."
What Is the Harvard Lawsuit?
The suit against Harvard was filed in 2015 by more than 60 Asian-American organizations. They too cited the Espenshade research. They also offered comparisons of the class makeups of Harvard and other elite colleges -- finding that many seemed to end up with same percentage of Asian students, which to the plaintiffs suggested some kind of agreement on an acceptable share of Asian students.

The lawsuit also compared Harvard's entering classes to those of the California Institute of Technology, which does not consider race in admissions. In 2013, according to the complaint, Harvard had 18 percent Asian-American enrollment, while Caltech had 43 percent. Similar studies have shown that Asian-American enrollment is much higher at institutions like the University of California's campuses at Berkeley or Los Angeles -- where a voter-approved state measure bans the consideration of race -- than it is at Ivy institutions that consider race.

While there have been a number of skirmishes in the suit, they have to date been preliminary.

Harvard is defending itself and rejecting the statistical evidence offered, saying that holistic admissions does not mandate that those with the highest SAT scores be admitted, and that it involves consideration of many nonnumerical factors.

"In his seminal opinion in Regents of University of California v. Bakke, Justice Powell cited the Harvard College admissions plan in describing a legally sound approach to admissions. Then and now, the college considers each applicant through an individualized, holistic review having the goal of creating a vibrant academic community that exposes students to a wide range of differences: background, ideas, experiences, talents and aspirations," the statement said.
Do All Asians Back the Lawsuit and/or Justice Department Investigation?
No. While many Asian-Americans do back these efforts, others don't. In fact, two Asian high school students who hope to one day enroll at Harvard have filed their own legal action, seeking to enter the lawsuit on behalf of the university's defense of its admissions standards. And this is the case even though these students might gain from Harvard being forced to abandon affirmative action.

But these students argue that they benefit from diversity and that, if admitted to Harvard, they want diversity to continue there. Further, they argue that lawsuit and related efforts shift attention away from other realities, such as that most Asian-American students aren't vying for Ivy admission. More Asian-American students would be helped, they argue, by a focus on community colleges rather than on Ivies. The tweet that follows is from one of the students.

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A look at the data and arguments about Asian-Americans and admissions at elite colleges

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The admissions world focused on issue of affirmative action last week with an intensity not seen since the U.S. Supreme Court last year ruled that the University of Texas at Austin's admissions plan met constitutional standards. That ruling reassured many admissions professionals who consider race and ethnicity in admissions.