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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, she is a great candidate.  Why are people stuck on race? 
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Because we need simple answers and a Boogeyman.  It is the American way[/quote]

Actually it's an issue worth discussing because there is a minority being discriminated against and that's Asians.

Heck, this debate came up within the last year or two about how one of the NY magnet schools was being sued by the NAACP over the number of black admissions but the imbalance wasn't being caused by whites but rather by Asians.

Ditto for teaching %'s at universities....not enough blacks....but the group you'd have to "fix" to get the numbers to work would have to be Asians.

So, this isn't really a topic where you can wade in and claim some sort of moral high ground and blame the problem on "whining entitled white males" straight from script. It raises some really uncomfortable realities.

Me personally, I think that it will (correctly) push us towards more socio-economic criteria rather than pigmentation criteria.

Oh, also please note that there have been MANY complaints from blacks in the US about how schools have admitted people from Africa etc. and used a "black slot up" when the person hasn't had to come up in the US system with racism and might have affluent, highly educated parents etc.

It's a really tricky, complicated issue...not one to just be waved off as white whining because the most affected are ironically minorities and even men might start getting more *help* in admissions as the balance shifts.

(I am black, FWIW.)[/quote]

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