Totally concur ... language skills, manners, morals, propensity NOT to curse, etc. all are much more important than race in determining someone's "acceptance".
Not to open up a can of worms, but I would be interested in the authors opinions on "quotas" and the like, i.e. the results of so called affirmative action programs.
I don't see how any of the "social experiments" of "Affirmative Action" that actually result in 'reverse discrimination' will ever really assist a young African American. How does lowering an admittance standard of a university help?
My definition of "affirmative action" that I would hope that all races would get our elected officials to support as well as NO other definition, is to provide economic scholastic assistance to the inner city poor child, or where ever that poor child may be found. If all efforts, funds, assist, scholarships, programs, etc. were focused here the African American or Hispanic youth would be the benificiary. Racism exist in poverty, and focusing at this level, not at "lowering admission standards" is the right thing to do.
Many people may respond and say "we already do that" but I would disagree. One just has to look at the condition of "inner city" schools provided by our tax dollars and see that. The over whelming support in the African American communities for school vouchers, admitting that their is an imbalance, is a testimony to where we are "missing the mark" in educating our youth.
Anyway, just got me going ... I would be interested in Cincinatus' Wife's opinion on this subject, as well as any other of our African American brothers and sisters on this board.
Again, great article!!
I see that as LIBERAL vote pandering. It helps no one to lower the bar, except, of course, the snake-oil salesmen aka politicians. Universities are packed with Sixties radicals and the fruit of their Marxist teachings. Everything that a progressive believes in thrives on university campuses - affirmative action, environmentalism, feminism, diversity, sexual experimentation, anti-Americanism, anti-business, anti-moral under-pinnings, justice this and justice that. Text books are politically motivated instruments of social teachings. They ridicule America and leave students with a prejudice against their own country. Beyond believable.
There are exceptions to every rule. There are good inner city schools but they are the exception. We must insist on English only - none of this bilingual stuff that's destroying academic achievement, contributing to dropout rates and condemning generations of uneducated Americans to live lives of poverty. It's very obvious from testing that kids fall further behind the farther they go in public schools. Why? Teachers are not educated. Teachers don't know much about the subjects they teach. They know a lot of theory and politcal correctness but that isn't going to educate a student.