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Originally posted by Steeltrap
I was reading a British newspaper article about Henry Louis Gates, and he argued that affirmative action/integration/etc. has only benefited middle-class people and above, which many of us know but to me, is still interesting to read.
His point was that AA/integration/etc. does not and will not have the power to lift many people out of dire straits.

That's why it caught my attention. Many of us KNOW this to be true. I think back to my days as a high school senior. We used affirmative action to our benefit. I have seen it time and time again. Not, that we are not discriminated against, we were. However, we were not as you mentioned in dire straits. A great number of my classmates took the Princeton Review, we were enrolled in AP classes. We had opportunities some students didn't have. Is it fair that we put ourselves in the same category as students who did not have those opportunities due to their socioeconomic status. We realized the problem back then, but hey, we wanted to get into the colleges of our choice.