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Originally posted by sugar and spice
What about the possibility that some people who can't compete on their own fail to do so because of society issues? Otherwise, you're getting very close to saying that certain races are innately not prepared to succeed, or at least less prepared to succeed than others. Which is sticky. And not a point that I want to argue.
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What are these issues? I would never say that certain races couldn’t compete. That's the approach of Affirmative Action. Affirmative Action leaves the impression that certain races cannot compete without preferential treatment. If I thought that I could receive preferential treatment through AA, that belief just might lower my personal standards or self-expectation. I am saying just the opposite. Let everyone compete according to his or her own ability! Race has nothing to do with ability. If an individual cannot compete according to their own ability, perhaps they need to either work a little harder to achieve or formulate different career/educational goals. If there are indeed societal issues designed by whites to hold back certain races, why don't these same designers hold back all minorities?