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i went to a very highly rated private high school which had pretty much every resource any kid could dream of. black kids from my school still got preference wrt affirmative action even though they had life just as easy as everybody else. it really makes no sense.

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I see what you mean, but how do you propose they try and quell the wide spread disenfranchising of minorities? Case by case? And if you follow my logic at all that its a quick fix to facilitate an actual solution to the problem, then it truly doesnt matter if the person went to the finest private school or grew up in the gutter. The idea is that our college campuses and sought after professions will start to have a racial balance on par with that of our population. When a black kid grows up with good role models who look like them, they are going to be much more likely to follow on that same path.