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To: Myrddin
How many African American men actually get admitted to graduate school?

I did! Finished, too.

88 posted on 09/25/2002 3:07:17 PM PDT by rdb3
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To: rdb3
I did! Finished, too.

That's great! I am getting ready to start college next month...at age 44, it is kinda scary...well as I said above, gotta run, just saw your last post and wanted to give you kudos for your hard work! Best of luck to you!

90 posted on 09/25/2002 3:12:38 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: rdb3
Congrats on your accomplishment! I hope your advanced degree is a benefit to you professionally and stands as a positive example for others to follow.
128 posted on 09/26/2002 6:40:44 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: rdb3
You criticize some posters for not thinking on the individual level. Hello? The post is about two racial groups and why one group on average starts business at a greater rate. The article is about an aggregate measure, not individuals. SBA handouts are a very valid explanation for the aggregate measure.

From reading your post it seems you got upset because it you think that they somehow were talking about “all blacks”, or you personally, or implied that blacks are incapable of starting a business without government money. None of that is true, unless I missed something.

If you give out free money to a particular group of people to engage in an activity then more of that group will engage in that activity. That just basic economic incentives at work. It does not imply that that individuals in the group would not be capable of engaging in the activity without the government money. Being a fan of Thomas Sowell, who underestands incentives, I would expect you to agree with those citing SBA preferences as an explanation of the study's aggreage results.

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How many African American men actually get admitted to graduate school?

I did! Finished, too.

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So your answer is one? Seriously though, congratulations. But this is an example of how you take a quesion about a aggregate and make it about you, like you did with SBA preferences, and drug dealer comments. (The drug dealer comments were humor as far as I could tell, not P.C., but I don't think anyone was seriously saying drug dealers are driving the studies results, do you? Just because someone makes a joke about a sterotype does not mean they believe the stereotype. If you're upset about those jokes I will not argue that you should not be, but with particular respect to those posting about SBA prefrences you are out of line in criticizing them.)

130 posted on 09/26/2002 8:05:28 AM PDT by On the Road to Serfdom
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