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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So because the numbers wouldn’t change you’re ok with it. So it’s not the meritocracy or lack thereof that bothers you it’s anything that lowers the number of white people. [/quote]

[b]The US college age population is roughly 51% white, 14% black, 25% Hispanic, 5% Asian.[/b]

Harvard said that in the class of 2022, "46 percent said they are white, 18.1 percent of surveyed students identified as Asian, 14.3 percent as multiracial, 10.7 percent as Black or African American, 6.5 percent as Hispanic or Latino, 3.8 percent as South Asian"

On grounds of fairness and to make Harvard representative of the overall population, there is no case for reducing white numbers. If they wanted to raise black and Hispanic numbers that would have to come at the expense of Asians and "multiracials".[/quote]

And the statistics for those actually prepared for college work (as measured by ACT performance - which is a measure of actual mastery of high school material) have even more racially skewed proportions.[/quote]

Thomas Sowell’s explanation:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.staugustine.com/article/20151216/opinion/312169950%3ftemplate=ampart[/quote]

Show your own college readiness by summarizing it in your own words. Or did your STEMlord "education" not prepare you for that.[/quote]

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