ATTENTION TENNESSEE-BASED FACULTY AND STUDENTS!!!:  I need volunteers from the Volunteer State to join Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (“FASORP”)!

If you are a student or faculty member at a university located in Tennessee, you can help.  In fact, if you are a student or faculty member anywhere, it’s a bit of a help.

FASORP along with the National Association of Scholars will soon be intervening in litigation pending in federal court in Tennessee.  They will be represented by attorneys with the American Civil Right Project (where I am chairman of the board).  Our goal is to have the federal government’s Minority Serving Institutions programs declared unconstitutional.  These programs shovel billions of taxpayer dollars to colleges and universities based on the race of their students.  For example, to qualify as a Hispanic Serving Institution, which is by far the largest and best financed such program, a school must be able to certify annually that at least 25% of its students are Hispanic.

Can you imagine the shrieks and hollers we would be hearing if Congress was funding program that gave money to schools only if at least 25% of their students were white?  Neither can I.  For that reason, Congress can’t have a program for other races either.

(Note that the Historically Black Colleges and Universities program is different.  For reasons I’ll tell you about when all of us have a lot of time on our hands in the future, HBCUs are on a different and stronger constitutional footing.  For now, I’ll just note that, among other reasons, HBCUs have no incentive to discriminate.  They would remain HBCUs even if all their students were white or Asian.  Some HBCUs are indeed majority white.)

FASORP will arguably be in a stronger position to intervene in the litigation the more Tennessee students and faculty it has as members.  It already has some, but in case they get hit by a truck, I’d like for it to have more. Membership is free and confidential.  All you have to do is fill out this quick form.  (The form asks if you have evidence of discrimination at your institution.  You can ignore that part.  All you need to do is join.)

Full disclosure:  There is always a very, very remote possibility that at some point in the future FASORP could be compelled to disclose its membership to the court.  But it would not happen before our members were given an opportunity to drop out if that’s their preference.  But frankly, if you’re a frequent Instapundit reader, you probably lost your reputation for political correctness long ago.

Thank you for any help you are able to give us!