[lovelyivy84]

Does anyone ever stop to think about the secondary school system in America when they argue against AA?

Public schools in minority neighborhoods can not even begin to match the education given at institutions where the students are mostly white.

This is all related to the funding of schools coming from property taxes of course, but what it essentially means is that if you live in a black neighborhood, good luck getting anything approaching a real education! The people that manage to are the EXCEPTIOn, not the majority.

In America, education is not equal, especially not for minorities of pretty much all colors (schools in the Chinatown district of NYC face the SAME problems).

AA is supposed to address this education gap.

How come I never hear ANY of the people who are so vocal about AA arguing the same way against the ease with which legacy students get into college? I know a lot of people who got into colleges because of Daddy's name and Daddy's money and no one gave it a second though, but when I who was head of debate, editor of the newspaper and had a great GPA got into an Ivy League college on early decision no less, they had a problem with it.

Can someone explain that to me possibly? There were two people in my high school class with SAT and SAT II scores higher than mine. But my getting into Who's Who was about my race? Come on! I really think a lot of people are hypocrites on this issue- Black people because it's in ouyr benefit (sorta) and white people because it's not in theirs FOR ONCE.