2011-09-26, 02:54 PM
The Great One Wrote:I get the joke," he continued. "How very original. It's been done for 15 years. The point that I think needs to be made ... is that by the time anyone steps on a college campus ... there has already been 12- to 13-years of institutionalized affirmative action for white folks, that is to say, racially embedded inequality, which has benefited those of us who are white"
Basically this, whites shouldn't get up in arms about affirmative action in college when you have had it all your life up until this point.
Though it shouldn't be a blanket effect I know some rich black guys who basically double dipped got all that black scholarship money and got into a school because their black. It should go by your actual level of income.
you have to remember though, the people that lived back then aren't the same that are living right now. ones trying to get in college atm were never benefitted in the first place because, well, they haven't gone to college. maybe their parents and such, but not the kids.