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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Did you read the first paragraph? If poor Asian kids from other countries are able to learn English and still get into AAP/TJ, American born African-Americans should also be able to get in. I don't think African-Americans are disadvantaged but have the advantage of having English as their first language. The county goes the extra mile for them in attempts to increase their numbers in AAP/TJ.

One huge cultural difference is that Asian kids are told they can gain success with academic achievement. They don't feel stuck in a low SES.

DH was in all honor classes except English by the time he was in junior high school. He lived out of state but I'm fairly certain that he could have gotten into TJ. He may not have been in honors English but he would not have required ESL classes at that point. Eventually he got ivy league medical training. He was not test prepped by his parents. He would have written his essay all by himself and gotten in because admissions could probably clearly see that he had no help from his parents. He also got free reduced lunch. He hated getting free lunch and living in a crappy apartment. His parents did not have the resources nor did they probably even know about fancy test prep. DH studied on his own. The African-American and Hipsanic counterparts should be able to do the same on their own merit.[/quote]

From my reading and understanding of the history of America over the last 300 years, African Americans should be at no disadvantage today compared to other American immigrants (even discounting SES).  After all, they have had, and continue to have, equal access to opportunities (and choice) in this country such as land, land ownership, generational wealth, libraries, schools and universities, country clubs, swimming pools and lacrosse, real estate, bank and other business loans, the ballot box, the board rooms and voting rights.   I am at a loss to explain thier plight.  They did not suffer the Indian ethnic cleansing and holocaust (well over 100 million) over the same period  by the hands of other American immigrants from across the Atlantic. 
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