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Originally posted by Eirene_DGP
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.
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I'm not trying to pick apart your post and this is the only post I'm leaving on this topic. But who is to say the reverse? Who is to say these African-American students ARE from racist schools? Who is to say their teachers did give them lower scores?
And over-opinionated white peers? I don't think we need to generalize like this....
This has been a great discussion so far. I don't want to see it turn into another flame war simply because of a few generalizations.
For the record, I support the intensions of AA, but I think most of us can agree that it doesn't always work the way it was intended?