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Then make Affirmative Action tailored and specific to multigenerational groups that have suffered discrimination. [b]Why the heck should a Columbian's kid who migrated here 30 years ago, get a leg up for admission.[/b] His family probably effed over the native Americans in Columbia and now they come here and get to enjoy special preferences? Why the hell should a conquistador's descendent be allowed to migrate from Mexico to the US and get preferential treatment in college admissions? They were the privileged a*holes in their country, but the minute they step on this side of the fence they become oppressed. BS

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Because racial balance in college admissions is not done to make reparations;  it is done because colleges feel they are better if they have a representative racial balance.  The background of the student's ancestors is irrelevant to that mission.  [b]Why is that so hard to understand?[/b][/quote]

God, it is so hard arguing with morons. [b]Affirmative Action is a  set of laws, policies, guidelines, and government-mandated and government-sanctioned administrative practices, including those of private institutions, intended to end and correct the effects of a specific form of discrimination. It seeks to end the effects of discriminatory practices that violate the inherent equality of persons who, because they share certain attributes such as sex or skin color, have been denied opportunities on the grounds that they are inferior or different. [/b]

Without Affirmative Action, we wouldn't even be having this case against Harvard. Everything depends on the premise that Affirmative action is needed. And because that is why Harvard can even legitimately claim to have a different bar for different races, they should not be allowed to have a different bar for Blacks and Hispanics who were never subject to these indignities in the first place. That Nigerian immigrant has no business getting a leg up from Affirmative Action nor does the descendent of the Conquistador. Get it?

Without past discrimination, there would be no Affirmative Action and any admission policy based on race would be illegal, so we would not even be discussing this. Since Affirmative action was and is still the law of the land and is based on past discrimination ( otherwise why not include White protestants in the calculation for diversity?) Immigrant Blacks and Hispanics should be dis qualified. Harvard is a despicable institution for trying to wave the Affirmative Action flag on the shoulders of Black and Hispanic immigrants

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Racial criteria in college admission is not affirmative action.

Many times this has been posted, and many times it has been ignored.  If you had read anything of detail about this, you would understand.  But you keep plucking that chicken.

I'll save myself the next post and say it again:

Racial criteria in college admission is not affirmative action.[/quote]

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