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[quote=Anonymous]AA primarily benefits middle/upper class blacks -- and not necessarily African Americans. Poor African Americans (and poor whites, and other races) are still screwed. Where I work, most of the "blacks" are not even from the US; they are from various Caribbean islands or from Europe, but they still count as "black," and most come from fairly affluent backgrounds. These are the real beneficiaries of AA.

I would like to see AA improved to address these shortcomings, but since the most politically connected black folks are middle/upper middle class -- the main beneficiaries of AA -- there is little interest in fixing anything.

"Legacy" status is a red herring. There are a handful of super rich white kids that get in due to legacy, and their parents donations, but this is probably not even 1/10th of a percent of white students, and is obviously not significant enough to affect average SAT and GPA scores for their schools.

If large numbers of unqualified whites got in because of legacy status, then white SAT and GPA scores would be consistently low for the schools that they are admitted to. But school profiles consistently show blacks (and sometimes latinos) as having significantly lower scores than other races. This indicates that AA is far more of a factor than legacy status. [/quote]

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