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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can white African-Americans benefit from affirmative action?[/quote]

Huh?  Do you mean people from North Africa, or white South Africans?  People from the Middle East and North Africa are considered Caucasian, and are therefore "white" and white people from South Africa are also white.[/quote]

Maybe PP means someone like Obama or maybe someone who is AA but looks white.[/quote]

For colleges, you can claim to be AA if you are 1/4 AA, that is, if you have one AA grandparent out of 4 grandparents. We know several white-looking National Achievement Scholars--one even has dirty blond hair. Another has prominent parents, a privileged background, and very fair skin. I have no clue how the colleges respond to this when they actually meet the kid, although my sense is that colleges are happy as long as they can report higher diversity statistics.

But maybe PP means "affirmative action" in the sense that white kids used to get into Ivy League universities fairly automatically. Studies have shown that, today, being a white girl or an Asian of any color is actually a disadvantage, in the sense that you need SATs that are several 100 points higher than other applicants. For preferences like athletic recruitment, I'm not sure how race is a factor overall, although it's true that some sports that require lots of money, like fencing or crew or equestrian events, are predominantly white. Because legacy preferences are still operative, being white is still an advantage because most legacies are still white.[/quote]

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