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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What makes you people so sure your kid would have been next on the list? At the cut line, there are hundreds of applicants who are very close in qualifications. None of them are undeserving but none of them are entitled to a spot either. There are other schools and if your kid is all you think he/she is, he/she will do well with a degree from any of them. It’s only the parents who can’t imagine life without Harvard or Yale or Princeton or Stanford. [/quote]
First, there's no "my kid." Why are liberals so selfish as to think that posters would only object to the unfair AA policies if it impacted them personally, and not because they see the blatant inequity in depriving bright, hard-working, and motivated poor WHITE kids in favor of black kids, many of who are middle class, with lower grades?

And there's that liberal shrug-off where poor whites are concerned (albeit not as bad as the posters who referred to "white trash" and said that A- white kids can "just go to community college"). You talk with disdain about white parents who can't imagine life without Harvard or Yale, but couldn't the same be said for the parents of black kids? Why not acknowledge that the lesser-scoring black kid can do well in any of the other schools you say the white kids can go to?

For a black kid from a poor background, who despite the hardships of his or her early life, manages to squeak out a B average, it will be a life-changing experience to get a college degree from the state university. Why do liberals insist that a white kid from a poor background, with an A average, has to be the one to go to State U when his shining record would otherwise get him a spot in Stanford, or Yale, or Princeton?

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Why do you only care about the WHITE kids? Don't you care about the URM families who would be impacted by removing AA?

Harvard/Yale does much more to help URM kids than it does for white kids.

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