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Its seems like you are arguing [b]for[/b] racial balance.

That's what colleges feel they need -- a balance of ALL races that reflects the population of the country so that students of all races can be comfortable and want to attend and the colleges can attract as many students as possible.

It's not racism because it benefits all races, (such as an Asian applicant at Notre Dame  or Grinnell, a black student at Harvard or Middlebury a white student at Spelman or Morehouse) even though it may make it harder for certain students at certain schools.  [/quote]

So if I ran a sports team, a team where it really helps the talented people in the community to have access to it, and then I turned away people from races x and y because I told them "sorry, I'm only interested in people of race z now" and went to get more people from race z who were nowhere near as good as the ones I turned away, just because it's my "mission" to have that many people from race z there.... you'd be okay with that?

I think the only way that would be remotely reasonable is if I didn't claim that my team was a meritocracy or that admission was based on talent, and instead called it the "rainbow team" or some such and made it very clear to everyone involved that the team's mission is primarily about racial exposure, like so each race can be exposed to a representative sample of the other races as they would find in the entire USA. And playing the sport is something we do while there.
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Incredibly silly example which has no bearing, but I will try to respond anyway.

If your sports team was made better by having a racial balance that reflected the population and was not biased against any specific race or races, then yes, I would think that was OK.  But of course, that is impossible on a sports team, but it is reality on a college campus.

It's clear you continue to fail to grasp that the colleges feel racial balance makes them better and helps them better accomplish their mission.  It's not ideological.  Why is that?  Why can't you understand that point, despite it being made many times?[/quote]

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