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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the Supreme Court strikes race based affirmative action in higher education unconstitutional, American colleges and universities will likely replace those programs with class based affirmative action. In so doing, class based affirmative action programs will achieve more social and economic fairness in our society than any race based program.

Over the last 30 years, a large portion of America's once affluent middle class have become the working poor. America's wealth gap and economic inequality has grown to crisis levels. Class based affirmative action programs will help address that crisis by allowing children of the working poor access to higher education. Also, a class based affirmative action program cannot be challenge on constitutional grounds. [/quote]

I would have less issue with SES based affirmative action.  It seems nuts to me that the sons and daughters of AA senior executives, surgeons and Big Law partners get a "URM" preference in college admissions.  (President Obama said as much in 2008, when he said kids like his shouldn't get affirmative action.)  If affirmative action were SES based, it would still pull in a large number of racial minority students.[/quote]

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