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if you want something bad enough, you are going to work your ass off for it. period. you're gonna do whatever it takes, and NOT rely on something as unimportant to your skills as a human being as your gender or your race.
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AlphaGam, who is to say that these Afr. Ams are not from racist schools since racism DOES exist? Who is to say their teachers did not give them lower scores than they actually deserved because they were black? Who is to say those students did not participate in extracurricular activities and were made to feel uncomfortable by their over opinionated white peers and decided not to participate? AA was installed to level the playing ground because racism and sexism was a factor in college/employment etc. Like someone else mentioned, maybe the race question should be left out of the admissions process entirely and maybe even names too if the student's ethnicity could easily be identified.
For all of those who b*tch and moan about AA not being necessary, scholarships are given to non-minorities who decide to go to HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities). So if non-minorities who are under represented at these schools are given the opportunity to compete with the advantage of race taken in as a factor, why can't Afr. Ams be given the same opportunity at predominately white schools? My
personal opinion is that white students do not want to be the minority and in a setting without their peers.