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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate to tell a lot of you this, but most minorities do not give a rat's ass how we got the opportunity or what you call it, or even waht you think about it - we just want the opportunity.  The shame and stigma that some assign to Affirmative Action is a White person's thing.

Further, the data that I have seen (I used to work in a university setting) shows that the level of academic attrition among White, Black and Latinos is very similar - and much lower for Asian students.  So...it is not like these kids are getting into these schools and flunking out at a higher rate. [/quote]

I don't know.  A number of AA studnents in my law school class were really pissed off that white students assumed that they go in on affirmative action admits rather than on pure merit. There were some hard feelings about it.

On the other hand, I learned rather quickly not to assume that any AA student was an affirmative action admit. If you are looking for them on the left side of the bell curve, they are going to clock you from the right .[/quote]

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