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Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
I know that many people are sad over this, but is it because the school is closing or because the students were receiving a sub-standard education? If the education wasn't where it was supposed to be, isn't it best that they close instead of passing students that are un-prepared to compete in society????
Also, regarding affirmative action, have we really reached a point in our community where we think our children NEED affirmative action to get into universities. I would argue that our children need a restoration of Intellectualism. Black people don't need to be GIVEN anything, we need to work for it. That should be the attitude we force our children to adopt, instead of pushing affirmative action down their throat....and having them rely on it so much to the point that they feel hopeless without it.
Just my 6 cents...
OOps.....my conservativism slipped out again 
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I'm with you about the restoration of intellectualism. I look at affirmative action as a foot in the door. If "others" feel that they need to do it, why not take advantage of it?
I don't feel any guilt. I went to my PWI, worked hard, got my degree. I may have been an AA admit (my SATs were 960 back in 1982). But I used it to get where I needed to be.
And yes, we should have prepared ourselves for the eventual end of affirmative action back in the 80s, during the Reagan years. I suppose, however, we got a reprieve w/Clinton.
