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Well, how about the fact that slavery and racism set us back a couple of centuries, in terms of both education and economic standing?</p>
<p>Meaning, other races have been going to school a lot longer than us, and that’s reflected with why we’re an underepresented minority in college.</p>
<p>More so, I think economic standing and education level are connected. Impoverished areas don’t have as good schools as others. Wealthier households can “provide more advantages compared to poorer households (breastfeeding, better nutrition, more emphasis on education, parents speak more/bigger words around their young children).”</p>
<p>The reason a lot of minorities are in the ghettos, specifically blacks, is because our economic growth was stunted.</p>
<p>So there’s a good reason for affirmative action, and giving advantages to even it up, and get more of us into college.</p>