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They're doing this for a reason. Some say it's to make up for slavery. Others say it's because of something else. The question is, what is that reason?
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Yes, some say that.

And they are all wrong.

The people who run colleges say it is for the reason I posted, which you conveniently ignore.

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Wanting a representative sample based on an attribute doesn't make sense unless that attribute is meaningful. Can you follow that?[/quote]

Yes I can.  And colleges feel it is extremely meaningful, with a major reason being the one outlined above about HBCs. Can you follow that?

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DP: and why is skin color such an important attribute? [/quote]

Because systemic racism in the US made it an important attribute.  African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans have been historically disadvantaged in the US.  AA were subject to slavery, Jim Crow laws, disadvantaged in education, subject to redlining, subject to police harassment, and subject to discrimination in hiring.  Hispanics were not slaves, but experienced everything else. Asian Americans were not slaves, but experienced everything else and were also subject to concentration camps during WWII.  Both Hispanics and Asian Americans were subject to immigration bans and difficulty in obtaining citizenship.

Those historic policies continue to have effect today.  Failing to recognize that some kids have had a harder row to hoe because of their race is the right thing to do.

It is probably also the right thing to do to give some extra help to white kids who grow in poverty or who come from rural areas, as opposed to suburban/urban UMC and UC kids.  But that's another argument. [/quote]

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