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Here's how you go about it..

Dedicate a certain % of seats for Poor/URMs (with a nicer nomenclature of course).  Let's say that's 10% (could be 5, 15 or even 20).   5% of that (flexible) is assigned to what I called "true" URMs, those systematically disadvantaged over a long period of time.  IMHO, that's Native Americans and Blacks who were brought here as slaves.  We could arbitrarily set the bloodline requirement to 50% and over time change that to 100% for Native American heritage.  For Blacks, it would be the ability to trace their ancestry to slaves on BOTH sides of the family.  This would be regardless of their financial status.

If the bloodline % is lower, say they married a White, they will not quality but if they became poor or continue to remain poor, they would be covered by the other 5% of the 10% quota.  Something along those lines.  The purpose of this is to eventually emancipate everyone so these set-asides disappear for everyone other than people who are poor.

This will exclude Hispanics (from Spain or from Latin America), African Americans who just showed up yesterday, etc.  If they are poor, of course they would be covered by the other 5%.  This way, we don't have to worry about pleasing every URM as well as prevent colleges from coming up with their own version of URM benevolence.[/quote]

Do you even hear yourself?

As the descendant of a historian/genealogist, who spent decades of his life putting together a history of our family (the more recent one thousand years thereof), have you the slightest inkling of the work involved in identifying "bloodlines"?  Of the incredible breach of privacy that it represents if it's a requirement for admission? Of the many surprises that would await people in their genealogy, if you have to use DNA, because, well, humans are prone to temptation?

The whole thing is not only logistically impossible, but it's morally dubious.

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