RiverDad
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Having gone to a top 10 school for undergrad, I can safely say that there were students of all colors and backgrounds who had problems in college.
Can you ask for your money back? That Top 10 school sure didn't deliver results which can be measured when looking at coherent argument. Here's what you've just done.
Me: Blind people shouldn't drive cars because their blindness is the cause of many accidents.
You: I've bee a driver for many years and let me tell you that I've seen plenty of accidents on the road and they usually involve drunkenness or speeding. Blindness had nothing to do with those accidents.
WTF? Is that a logical response? You've completely contorted the issue and devised some nonsensical response so that you could arrive at the conclusion you wanted to advance (Blindness had nothing to do with the accidents) the poor qualification of blacks and Hispanics admitted under Affirmative Action admissions policies had nothing to do with their doing poorly in school. Research shows otherwise.
Moreover, you keep talking about "changing attitudes" and getting rid of the idea that blacks don't deserve to be there.
When's the last time you saw a man in a wheelchair qualify for the US Olympic 100m sprint team? If he was placed on the team even though he didn't qualify through getting a winning time in earlier trials, you'd say he was unqualified to be there.
No one is saying that blacks don't deserve to "be there" what I, and others, are saying is that unqualified people don't deserve to be there. Affirmative action doesn't apply to all people, only to minorities, so of course it is the minorities who get targeted for being unqualified and not deserving to be there. Once there is a fair system then everyone who is admitted under the same rules will be judged to be qualified and they'll all deserve to be there, which means, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, whites, South Asians, Jews, handicapped, homosexuals, Native Americans, you name it.