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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
My answer:
So... the world isn't a perfect one after all. How 'bout that?
Now, if the kid who'd gotten a "free ride" to Yale had had a 1.9 average...
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Or got into Medical school with .5 less GPA???
That's the nasty point. AA is it's own form of racism, and always has been. It's just that the formerly oppressed group is now receiving the bennies - in the name of fairness. OK, if 40 years isn't enough, will 400 be? 4000?
Now, the terms of correction for past errors could have (and IMHO should have been) defined on economic terms (at least in education). This would have still disproportionately benefited minorities, closing the gap, but it would not have racist in it's definition. The idea that and work and achievement mattered even more, because you could accomplish things even if you were poor.
But after 40 years of playing the Race card and the White Guilt card, to say this is to make one be treated as someone to the evil side of Lucifer....