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Originally Posted by Table 5
Getting assistance into college should absolutely be about economic factors, not race. Just travel around the country...there are plenty of poor people of all races in the US. Do you think the poor white kid living in a trailer in West Virginia is really better off than the poor black kid in the ghetto? They are both in a crappy situation and both need a step up to better their lives. More inequality is not the answer to inequality.
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Yep, because everything else being equal, the black kid is still black.
You take a poor white trash kid, get him good grades and into a good school, he has overcome the main issue he was faced with, being poor. Black kid has more challanges than just being poor.
That said, I am not saying I agree with affirmative action in its present state, or based on economic factors, is the right thing to do to overcome the issues faced by either of these kids.