[Minerva's Girl]

shinerbock, point well taken. Most people gravitate toward others like themselves because 1) when navigating daily life, it's just easier and 2) we all enjoy the validation we receive spiritually and emotionally (especially when we are young.) The biggest problem occurs when "the fraternity" thinks that a university, the US Government or a Company (often one that does business with public institutions) is an extension of it's frat house. Often when the members of the organizations grow up, they continue to promote their friends, frat brothers etc. for positions of power and have the audicity to say (or wonder why) they don't know any people that aren't like them. Hence the remedy. . . affirmative action. It's dishonest to say that it doesn't happen and that when other people speak to it they are practicing "reverse racism".

When we are young, such things are considered "kids just having fun." When we go out into the real world, it has a much more serious affect. Generations of people don't receive educations and then don't have access to job opportunities. Then economic hardship follows and the cycle continues. If you adhere to the "traditional American values" of opportunity and equality for all, then start now. The principles we practice when we are young are the ones we typically take into adulthood.