On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "I mostly agree with this, although I think it is more of a class thing than > purely economic. The problem is that race, class and economic background are > all intertwined in America and not easy to untangle. " > > I'll have to disagree. There are affluent minorities who need no help in > getting their children into college. There are intelligent white kids in > trailer parks who need all of the help they can get. Under Affirmative > Action, the minority gets the benefit. Remove race. Go by economics. > Class is such a general description that I don't see how you can use it; it > brings in the ability to use a fudge factor, ie discrimination.
If you are talking about affirmative action in college admissions, I think your example doesn't really apply. The rich kid is probably going to get into a nice college regardless of race. Rich families have a tendency to do that. Really intelligent poor white kids tend to get into good colleges as well. I got into a top private college in spite of being poor and white. They figured out what loans I could take out, how much my family could afford to pay out of pocket (basically nothing) and then made up the rest in a grant from the school foundation. I actually had to pay more out of pocket when I transferred to a state school that would take all in-state kids, regardless of race, who met basic academic requirements. The biggest problem for college, at least when I went, was middle class kids of all races. They just flat out couldn't afford a good private college and so it didn't matter if they could get in or not. Though if I had to choose between two qualified middle-class kids and they were basically equal except for race, I'd probably go for the minority kid because the minority middle class is small and tenuous and needs more help than the white middle class. Of course these days the middle class is shrinking regardless of race, so I think that we've got plenty of work to do with income inequity that transcends race. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323247 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
