Affirmative Action; what's your take?

[Pea]

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Are you guys going to comment on my post?

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<p>OK, I’ll comment on it.</p>

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Minority admissions programs work not because they give black students access to the same rich cultural environment as white students, or any other formal vision of engineered equality. They work by giving black students access to the same white students, as white students, by allowing them to make acquaintances outside their own social world, and so shortening the chain lenghs between them and the best jobs.

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<p>This is one of the most poorly constructed paragraphs I have ever read. The first sentence is not a sentence. If you stop at the comma it is a sentence.</p>

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Minority admissions programs work not because they give black students access to the same rich cultural environment as white students

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<p>But it doesn’t make any sense to tack the following phrase onto the end.</p>

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, or any other formal vision of engineered equality

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<p>I think the second sentence is probably a sentence although it has too many commas and it is unnecessarily confusing</p>

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They work by giving black students access to the same white students, as white students, by allowing them to make acquaintances outside their own social world, and so shortening the chain lenghs between them and the best jobs.

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<p>Giving black students access to the same white students as white students? I had to reread that several times before I had any understanding of what you might have meant.</p>

<p>And chain lenghs? Did you mean chain links or chain lengths? Chain links would be a more common phrase, I’ve never heard of chain lengths before.</p>