| "One of the points that essay talked about--white privilege--was essentially that if you're white, your credentials can't be challenged because of your race. While affirmative action may have helped one student gain a leg up, there's no reason to assume that every black or hispanic applicant was of a lower caliber than the average white applicant. Just like the example in the first post--a black student being called on to represent an entire race--making assumptions about the quality of all minority applicants diminishes them and deindividualizes them."
I think the point you're missing is that these "assumptions" about minorities that make it through the admissions process or make it in the professional world exist primarily because of affirmative action. Affirmative action is only contributing to the problem it is trying to solve. |