The memo dengrated “José,” who was “the sole support of his family of 14 since his father, a Filipino farm worker, got run over by a tractor,” saying, “It can’t be that difficult on his part-time job as a senior cancer researcher.”
It continued, “While he was California’s Class AAA Player of the Year,” with an offer from the Rams, “we just don’t need a 132 pound defensive lineman,” apparently referring to a slight Asian male physique.
“I have to discount the Nobel Peace Prize he received. . . . After all, they gave one to Martin Luther King, too.
No doubt just another example of giving preference to minorities.”
The memo dismissed the fictional applicant as “just another AA CJer.”
That was Harvard admissions shorthand for an Asian American applicant who intends to study biology and become a doctor, according to the trial transcript.