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| Tue, 04-01-2003 - 2:56pm |
Diversity must be a goal of the best schools. Those who are fighting the affirmative action rules that give preference to race in admission have no problem with preferences for family wealth that help some others get into school. If all preferences that aren't exactly focused on academics are not withdrawn, it is unfair to target the preferences for race. The reasons for race preference are to overcome years, centuries of racial discrimination. What is the reason for preferences based on wealth, absolutely nothing to do with the student or his/her merit, only to do with the good fortune of being born into or friends of good families.
I hear people talking about other ways to close the gap of opportunity for minorities as opposed to whites. Those are fine whenever they are put into place and are working, until then affirmative action must stay in place.
I laugh when I hear people say, well when will it all end. No one was concerned about that when for centuries African Americans were denied opportunities in this country, but now we have had affirmative action regulations for about 35 years and everyone needs to know when will it end. To be honest I think patience is in line for whites in this matter.
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Bush has spoken out opposeing affirmative action. Being born into a white family of privelege could he even relate to the obstacles confronting black people?
If whites, that oppose affirmative action, were fully educated about the despicable treatment of blacks in the passed they would surely change the minds. Unfortunatly, still, too many draw conclusions about a person by the colour of their skin. Therefore to compensate for ignorance there needs to be laws inplace to level the playing field.
Good to see you on the board again Cassanda.
Bush has spoken out opposeing affirmative action. Being born into a white family of privelege could he even relate to the obstacles confronting black people?
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I haven't heard much of an alternative coming from him, other than using a phrase called 'Affirmative Access', which is as descriptive as saying: Fuzzy math.
I see this country progressing (very slowly but progressing none-the-less). There will come a time when AA is not needed - we aren't there yet. When I was a girl the idea that there could be African Americans in the upper echelons of majority businesses was unheard of. We don't have enough but we are there; we were allowed to make good money, especailly as entertainers and athletes, but now we have business persons who are in the top tier of riches, Robert Johnson, Oprah Winfrey and others. As slowly as progress is being made it seems that the justices would realize, if we could tolerate the unmitigated racism of the past centuries until less than 50 years ago, we can give AA more than a quarter century to work its magic in leveling the playing field.
By the way I was very disappointed in Justice Scalia's argument over when does critical mass become a quota. It was illogical - everyone knows a quota is a definte target number, once reached no effort needs to be made to support diversity. Everyone I can think of is against quotas - opportunity and quotas are different, but I don't think he will allow himself to see that.
Cassandra
1st one takes awhile to load. You need Acrobat reader. I tried to copy the paper but failed. Sorry.
It basicly states that in Austin, Tx. minority students dropped a little over 2% for both black & hispanics, from '95 to '97, under A.Access.
http://www.utdallas.edu/research/greenctr/Papers/pdfpapers/paper33.pdf
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dorf/20001101.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,76901,00.html
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