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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Changing college admissions criteria isn't going to knit families back together again.
The truth is it's actually easier, and more emotionally appealing, to behave as though modern-day racism is at fault. Then all we have to do is change our institutions and teach people not be racist and the bad outcomes will go away. But the real source of the problems are much more difficult to address. How do we put families back together? How do we encourage people to value education if they have no books in the house and no family history of pursuing education? How do we get people to move beyond toxic sub-cultures they grow up in?
Tough questions. Easier just to blame systemic racism.
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It might actually. Giving people a greater chance of education and financial success probably won't impact their parents much, but it'll impact them and their children. The "American dream" where the poor man becomes rich is generally false, as many people from certain positions in life never have the opportunities present to those above them. By providing a chance you present the opportunity for a more positive outcome. To classify the black community as the great un-read sea of broken families mired in toxic subcultures is somewhat racist in itself. As with any and all communities, there are those that may fit your description, and those who lack nothing more than opportunity.
Otherwise this is all a bit soap-boxy for my taste. It's certainly easier to pretend that giving systemic racism consideration is just blaming all the problems on it as a way of dismissing the argument, but that's clearly not what is happening here. "If you can't fix all the problems, don't try" is never very compelling, even less so here. If you agree that systemic racism exists in even a small way, it makes sense to try to eliminate it or its effects.