Saturday, January 3, 2015
On the Fact that Some White Intellectuals Apparently Believe that a Black Person Flunking Out of Cornell, M.I.T., or Stanford Is Preferable to that Same Black Person Graduating with Honors from Stony Brook, UMass-Lowell, or Cal-State Fullerton
Yes, their intentions are noble but at some juncture accountability must also come into play. The fact of the matter here is that affirmative action has probably done significantly more harm than good and a reassessment is definitely in order........................................................................................P.S. Two exceptional sources on the matter are "Mismatch" by Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor and "Affirmative Action Around the World" by Thomas Sowell. I highly recommend that everybody (white intellectuals, especially) read them.
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I fully support leveling the playing field... not tilting it more.
Yes, these programs are fraught with problems: consider that under any and all of them, people like Obama's daughters... the closest thing to American princesses with their way paved with gold already, are given even more of a special advantage over the average son or daughter of a hardscrabble Ukrainian immigrant.
Affirmative action is great to open doors that might otherwise have been closed. Once in the individual should be graded (judged) on merit and accomplishment, or lack thereof. You don't cut it you go.
I doubt the Obama "princesses" will be getting the advantages of affirmative action.
They automatically do get such "advantages" is they apply at any educational institution with these racist affirmative action policies in place.
I recall John Myste, who argued that affirmative action was necessary because all blacks were damaged beings.
This is just another argument in favor of the idea of black inferiority. It is different, of course, from the one by the KKK/etc of some sort of genetic inferiority. But it is no less incorrect, condescending, and insulting.
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