Jeez. It's not the affirmative action in admissions you need to worry about. The process weeds out the truly incompetent (as opposed to the moderately incompetent who come in all races, including Asians, my FRiend.) by having national and state boards. Those who shouldn't have been allowed in law school, won't pass the bar. Those who shouldn't have gone to nursing or med school, won't pass the boards.
I'm so sick of FReepers who paint minorities with such a broad brush and assume that everyone of them with a professional position is an incompetent product of affirmative action. Minorities DO get into professional programs with good grades and coming from good undergraduate programs, you know. There are black FReeper nurses, lawyers, computer professionals, engineers, and assorted other professions represented on this board. Are they all incompetent or will you give them a pass because they're conservatives?
I don’t assume they’re all the product of affirmative action, I just don’t have any way of knowing (absent the personal recommendation I mentioned) which are which beforehand. I’m a conservative so I’m not a racist. I assume minorities are qualified in the same proportion as anyone else and would do fine without affirmative action. It’s just that the admissions people are so eager to discriminate against whites and especially asians that I’d think the least promising get filtered out.
Manifestly, this process does NOT work in politics: as evidenced by both halves of the Dem ticket and the top of the GOP ticket.
Lots of people like to go for a cut above the minimum competency to pass various board and licensing tests. Affirmative action completely scrambles the ability to recognize such ‘cut above’ AA or Hispanic professionals according to the school they attended, because they are too likely to have been admitted on a drastically lower standard. Unfortunate, but true.