I'm sorry, despite your intentions, your statements were offensive. I received my undergraduate education at Spelman and my graduate education at UCLA. I can look at this situation from both sides of the fence as well. I firmly believed that the education I received at Spelman as an undergraduate was better than the one I would have received at UCLA. I say this because of my many encounters with people who attended Cal, UCLA, or other top ten schools. The fact that you stated that students receive a substandard education at HBCU's is not true. I cannot count the number of HBCU educated people who have won national awards, received acceptance into top ten graduate programs, and who are movers and shakers in their respective fields. I mean, if Spelman had a graduate program, I would have continued my education there. Please know that HBCU graduates are well-prepared and competitive. Top companies do not come to recruit there because we are Black, but because they realize that we are the best and the brightest.
Ok, I'm sorry. I just had to vent. I still see the need for affirmative action. I am in education, and every day I see the differences in schools that have a majority of Black/Latino students and ones that are predominately white. We do not have the same access to technology, books, or highly trained teachers. It is unfair and cruel to measure students who do not even have a desk or a textbook with students in Beverly Hills who have access to the latest resources. I am speaking as someone who has not benefited from affirmative action. Even though I have never benefited from it, I still see the need. Affirmative action is not rewarding people who CAN'T do the job/work, but allowing those people who would be denied because of their sex or skin color, a chance.
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