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Hi Redress,
Thanks for such a wonderfully honest response.
Do you share with me, however, the sense of sadness of it all? Here we are forty five years after Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and still neither you (a liberal) nor I (a conservative) can point to a "race neutral" test.
What do you suppose that tells us?
Do you suppose that perhaps the epitaph used so frequent by those on the left in reference to those of us on the right as "racist" might be misplaced or at least ill-advised?
After 45 years and billions of dollars and the intellectual capacity of the finest elites of the nation isn't it possible that the wrong question is being asked or the wrong approach to the problem is being taken? After 45 years of effort at EEO, is it yet time to ask if there is a "better way"? Or do you continue to support the idea that we should continue milking this same old cow? If the latter, then to what end? 85% support in the general election, perhaps?
In your response you said "Your assumption is that a whole group of people of one ethnicity chose not to prepare properly for an exam, while another ethnicity prepared properly." which is not quite accurate. What I asked was for the data that supports the contention that the results obtained can only be the consequence of a faulty test. I am not sure I saw in your response where you addressed that question.
Continuing to look forward to your response.
Simple atoms in the great void.
Absolutely I share your sadness, and I think my party tends to attack the wrong problems, only slightly mitigated by what I see as the other party either not attacking the problem at all, or pointing fingers as a solution. To my mind, the biggest race problem we have now is not race, but poverty. Black people and hispanics tend to be clustered together in poor urban areas, where, being poor, the schools are not as good, crime is higher, and there are not enough good role models. Until we fix that problem(probably with education), there will always be issues with race like this.
For your other question, I did admit there are other possible reasons for the results, I just find them unlikely.