[Otta B Sleepin]

This is the first time I've posted an article and I apologize if this has already been posted - it didn't show up in a search.

[CatoRenasci]

Good article. Bump!

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Excellent.

By the way, what is World Magazine?

[LouD]

Good post. It highlights one of the big problems I have with affirmative action: The presumption that an upper middle class black child of educated professionals is somehow deserving of a contrived advantage over a white kid who may have grown up in poverty and never known anyone who attended college. Where is the justice in that? The underlying logic is that "enough whites are successful, so if you and your family are not already among them, then too bad.

[Rose in RoseBear]

Wow! I was in the same position as the author, way back in the Stone Age when the National Achievement Award was relatively new. I wound up with National Merit and National Achievement, but I rarely mentioned the latter. Most people weren't sure of what it meant, except that I was black and not quite as good, somehow. It actually overshadowed the National Merit Award.

I am impressed that the author had more common sense than I did at her age, and went for the main chance!

Ping to the Bear and to mhking!

[sweetliberty]

"I didn't think it was an additional honor to be considered a top black student when I was able to compete as a top student, no qualifiers added."

"how can any policy based on an assumption of inferiority be considered affirming at all?"

"it dishonors the black community in general by saying that America expects less of black people, regardless of their particular circumstances, than it does of other people."

Here is someone who gets it. Please tell Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackass would you? And all these other condescending, racebaiting n'er-do-wells.

[okie01]

Outstanding post.

Miss Shrewsbury is not only very intelligent, she is highly courageous, as well. If they wanted, Harvard could learn a great deal from her.

Prisca Shrewsbury. Somehow, I believe we're going to hearing of this name again...

[jkshrews]

Remember Prisca Shrewsbury, who wrote the "No Qualifiers Needed" article about affirmative action in school admissions? One commenter said,

"Miss Shrewsbury is not only very intelligent, she is highly courageous, as well......Somehow, I believe we're going to hearing of this name again..."

To learn about the recent escapades of Prisca Shrewsbury, you may read her blog journal at http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=PriscaTanz .

She returns today from 14 months of missionary service during which she taught high school math in the far reaches of the Tanzanian mountains, at over 6,000 feet altitude, with only email over sat phone for outside communication. So now she adds to her Magna cum Laude degree from Harvard a year invested in the lifes of poor African villagers and the ability to speak Swahili.

I expect in the near future, she will attend the law school of her choice. Who knows what significant undertakings may follow?