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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the TO talk makes me wonder - what's the point of creating a specific class to your standards, whatever those standards are? Just a prestige thing? [/quote]

The fundamental problem is that the United States kidnapped people from Africa, enslaved them, tortured them and did everything we could to wreck their lives for centuries.

But we’re too cheap and nasty to compensate their descendants properly, do anything much to make “the poor side of town” nicer, or even to give kids from the “poor side of town” a 20-point SAT boost when they apply for college.

So, instead of having a simple system to give the descendants of slaves a small affirmative action admissions  boost, we have a crazy, Rube Goldberg holistic admissions system, in the hope it might help a few poor Blacks do a little better on their applications.

If we would stop being a nation of racist crackers, we could build the whole college application process around an electronic post card. [/quote]

How do you compensate the descendants of slaves without actually inconveniencing white people.
Give hispanics and blacks a preferences almost exclusively at the expense of asians and call it a day.

The most harmful legacy of 300 years of slavery and segregation for modern day legacy blacks is not the fact that they are born poor.  It's the fact that the their culture was destroyed and they had to invent and reinvent their culture several times and now they don't have the cultural foundations that immigrants enjoy to guide them out of poverty.  The difference between legacy blacks and poor immigrant blacks is largely culture and the achievement gap between the two is pretty stark.[/quote]

How do expect black people reading this post to respond? Honest question. Should we say, yes, we are deficient in every way and have not been good Americans like immigrants have been? We are cultureless, aimless, and stupid?[/quote]

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