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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nigerians place a huge emphasis on education and on excelling, as some have previously noted. Nigerians also account for 25 percent of black students at Harvard Business School. They are consistently academic standouts. Not affirmative action. [/quote]

Nigerians (and Cubans) are obsessed with exploiting American affirmative action policies that were not intended for them.[/quote]

Jesus.  I guess it's totally impossible that a young woman of color could, by herself, merit these admissions?

I can completely understand why this MoCo student wrote this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/opinion/sunday/finding-growth-at-my-historically-black-college.html

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OP here.  Thanks for sharing this article!  I also attended an HBCU, and it was a great experience.

One other point.  It seems a few posters are intent on pitting black 1st-gen students against AAs.  However, there's not such a clear demarcation between the groups.  For example, I'm black and 1st-gen, but most closely identify with the experiences of AAs, since I grew up in a predominantly AA environment, attended an HBCU, etc..  Black immigrants and their kids are subjected to some of the same discrimination and pressures as AAs.  And all black immigrants are not wealthy and well-educated.

Aside from whether you agree with affirmative action policies or not, there's not always such a clear dividing line between AAs and black immigrants.  The argument that black immigrants' children should not benefit from affirmative action policies seems to assume the groups are mutually exclusive.[/quote]

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