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Originally posted by Steeltrap
What we're going to have to do (and what we should have done, going back to the 1980s, IMO), is prepare our children and ourselves for the day when affirmative action will end. Some of the reports covering the decisions indicated that it probably won't go on forever. So, we need to make sure that educational and workplace excellence is hammered into them, including boosting standardized testing scores, such as the SAT. No, you can't legislate morality. But if we're routinely pulling 1200s or above, you can't keep us out of quality higher education institutions.
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I agree. I think the decision was fair. I think that far too often affirmative action has become a vehicle for unqualified people to obtain admission to colleges and universities or jobs. This only hurts us, it does not help us. I don't think the focus should be so much on affirmative action but on bettering the elementary and secondary education systems. In doing that, there will be a larger pool of qualified minorities who can utilize affirmative action to achieve equality within the workplace and in academia. . . not to fill quotas to show face. . . . thus defeating the purpose of affirmative action.