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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re how long affirmative action would be needed for.  It's important to remember how recent affirmative action is -- basically, it's been around for about a generation.  Bakke was decided as I was entering college (and my kid hasn't started college yet).  I was in the first class where Harvard offered equal access admissions to women (before that it was 4:1 male to female; my class was about 2:1; now it's 55:45.  And systematic attempts to break down economic barriers are even more recent (less than 20 years old).

Meanwhile, there are elites whose families have had access to Harvard for many generations.  Especially if concepts like "mismatch" are going to be invoked to undercut affirmative action, then it's really important to give these programs a few generations to work.  The first generation may well go in under-prepared but benefit enough to give their own kids a better start.  Once we're at a point where the group competes successfully, then the need for protection goes away.

Kind of like the logic of protecting infant industries[/quote]

Sandra Day O'Connor said 20 years at the Michigan case, didn't she?[/quote]

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