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Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
Just to put another spin on the topic, but some folks need to quit ASSUMING that every black person (or any other minority) comes from a poor, disadvantaged, broken home in the ghetto and therefore affirmative action is the only way for them to succeed. This kind of thought process is one-sided and narrow.
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Again, I don't think anybody is saying that all people of color are poor -- they're just playing off the fact that people of color are less likely to be upper-middle/upper class than whites. The wealthy people of color have a better "support system" (they can afford college, they can afford museums, they can afford books, they can afford violin lessons, etc.) in place than poor people of color, and for the time being I think we were concentrating on how to change the support system of poor people more than the middle class or wealthy.