Standardized testing fails to make the grade

Will you be a victim of a system of double standards that have tried to hold us back since Jim Crow? Are we doomed to a fate of second-class citizens for yet another generation? Explain why is it necessary to divulge my race when registering for the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT)?
I understand there is a need for a system that assures the person who is trying to get into a professional/graduate school is the one actually taking the test but what will knowing that I am an African-American do? I have to show my ID at the test sight and be fingerprinted at the test sight. Is that not enough? But be assured that the issue gets deeper as we look closer at the cultural biases built into these.
According to Robert Green, Professor of Educational Psychology and Robert Griffore, Assistant Professor of Metropolitan and Urban Studies both from Michigan State University, standardized test are biased in three ways: bias due to content, bias due to norms, and bias due to testing situations. First, the writers of the test are typically from different racial, socio-economic, and cultural backgrounds than minorities. Therefore, the test makers by nature of familiarity write test that majority students’ performances are better than that of minority students.
In addition, factors that must also be considered are the characteristics of examiners, the way the test-takers perceive the use of the test results, and motivations.
All said the test is built with inherent biases. However, after the test has been taken studies have indicated that the weight afforded to these biased standardized tests is disproportionately large.
One of the primary reasons for standardized tests, according to many graduate programs, is to test the critical thinking skills of applicants. However, as Michael Eric Dyson noted on the Thursday, September 4, 2003 edition of the Tavis Smiley Show on National Public Radio, a multiple-choice test has only one right answer. Thinking critically requires examinations that are more than binary—either right or wrong.
Did Daniel Hale Williams have to take the MCAT? Yet he preformed the first open-heart surgery in the United States. Did Thurgood Marshall have to take the LSAT? He is widely considered one of the greatest legal minds of all time.
I contend standardized tests evaluate test-taking proficiency. By no means does a standardized test accurately predict performance in these highest bastions of learning.
Call standardized testing what it truly is the modern day Poll Tax!