On February 23, Tucker Carlson stated some hard facts about America's elite colleges and universities:

At Yale, the median annual family income is $192,000; at the University of Pennsylvania, it's $196,000; and at Brown University it's $204,000. These incomes are normative for Ivy League and other prestigious schools. In addition, all of them have multi-billion-dollar endowments that taxpayers subsidize. By contrast, the median annual family income in America is $65,000. 

For all their talk about diversity, these campuses are not diverse. At Princeton, for example, 72% of students come from families in the top 20% nationally for household income. More than any other factor in America, an Ivy League degree virtually ensures that its holder -- and his or her descendants -- will be affluent. 

We cannot correct systemic racism and income inequality by attacking working-class people, such as police and small business owners, or salaried employees, such as the people working for Coca-Cola. Instead, we have to root out the problem where it starts -- in the elite academic institutions that perpetuate both racism and income inequality at society's highest levels.

This petition, therefore, demands that the 50 top-ranked colleges and universities in America immediately change their admission requirements to bar admission to all students who come from affluent homes or whose parents have attended college. Instead, all future admittees must come from homes with annual median incomes in the bottom 20% of America's economy. Further, at least 30% of all spaces must be reserved for students who came from Latin America without a visa.

(The header photo is a screengrab from this video.)