The thing that's pernicious about race-based student mismatch is the way it welds race consciousness into the equation in a sort of indelible way. My friend seemed to be unconcerned about his racial identity in elementary school and high school, and none of his friends (including me) ever mentioned it except as a joke, and that was very occasional.
When he came back from the elite college he was initially admitted to (which was filled with extremely wealthy, highly privileged young people), race seemed to be all he thought about. He was hyper-conscious of it, to an extent that made me feel uncomfortable in his company, in a way I never had before. It was very sad and disturbing, and gave me a strong sense of loss and defeat.
Yes, but the cancer of liberalism and so called higher education destroys more lives every year than all the illegal drugs put together, it is just much more subtle poison. friend would have been better off and been a much better person to go to Chipola College, and that is a dud school or have gone to junior college. Those liberalism doesn’t destroy they corrupt utterly. This is the Bill Clinton effect. Perhaps in a century liberalism will be seen as the destroyer of as human beings as communism or Maoism only it will be the souls of multiple tens of millions who were destroyed not the bodies.