Denizens of the nation's colleges and universities take perverse pride in proclaiming that America - including higher education - embodies systemic racism. More insidious than mere racism - individuals or groups discriminating based on race, color, or national origin - structural or systemic racism is said to inhere in society's unwritten norms, shared beliefs, basic political institutions, and private associations. To hear university administrators, cutting-edge professors, and legions of up-and-coming graduate students tell it, systemic racism targets and injures blacks, Latinos, and other...
