Guess who’s back, ladies and gentlemen. The Supreme Court will once again hear Fisher vs. Texas, an affirmative action case in which a white applicant, Abigail Fisher, claims she was not accepted into the University of Texas because she is white. The case was first viewed by the Supreme Court in 2013, but they had voted to send the case back to the federal appeals court. However, Fisher’s case was appealed and now she’s back to wreak more havoc.

Fisher argues that affirmative action policies let less qualified students into the university, thus taking her “rightful” place. Now Fisher is right – the University of Texas admitted students whose grades and test scores were lower than Fisher’s. Five of those students were black or latino. Forty-two were white. Considering the fact that white students with fewer qualifications were admitted at more than eight times the rate of racial minority students with fewer qualifications, why is affirmative action the thing that has to go?

There is evidence that shows that Fisher’s grades were mediocre. Also, during the year she applied for the university, admissions there were actually more competitive than at Harvard. The University of Texas also stated that even if Fisher received a point for race, she still wouldn’t have met the threshold for admissions.

And you know what’s the icing on the cake? Fisher is only attacking affirmative action based on race, when in fact she could have possibly benefited from affirmative action for being a woman. What many people seem to overlook is the fact that affirmative action policies have disproportionally benefited white women.

So what is it, Abigail? You’ll fight for a colorblind approach to affirmative action to get rid of the already minuscule number of racial minorities who deserve to escape from our country’s systematic racial oppression by seeking higher education. And yet you’ll disregard the larger group of white students who “don’t belong” there and only keep the affirmative action policies that benefit you because of your gender. I see you, Fisher.

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