<p>Silverturtle, your post #695 is virtually immaculate and outlines the social objectives of a more equitable AA practice very well.</p>
<p>this thread is still running!!!</p>
<p>@silverturtle- precisely.</p>
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Psh I don’t. You think legacy gives any more of a boost than does AA? No. If anything, AA is equally influential, and more pervasive.</p>
<p>will this thread ever end? It will probably be 100 pages long before its finished but its on the decline now that the mifune-nearl debate has been over for quite some time.</p>
<p>Can you post images here?</p>
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<p>lame, it only links to them</p>
<p>^ seconded!!!
give it a rest, people. ^^</p>
<p>Please stop. Can we please talk about something else?</p>
<p>I wonder if the quads ever read through this…?</p>
<p>Probably. It is likely that they were informed of this thread since this is the largest college discussion site on the Internet.</p>
<p>Their clothes are awesome, lol</p>
<p>WOAH!!! over 700 comments on quads!!! There are some truly bitter people out there who want to take it out on them!!!</p>
<p>^No, it is about recognizing the social imperfections of a policy that often provides unfair advantages to those based on a quality that by no means provides an accurate representation of one’s true background.</p>
<p>For instance, Dartmouth College extended its application deadline to January 21 for under-represented minorities. Could you possibly imagine the public outcry if the deadline was extended exclusively to white and Asian students? Yet when it is extended for minorities what is the reaction? Absolutely nothing.</p>
<p>^OMG I just read about that! crazy!! thats a whole month later, jesus christ</p>
<p>WHOA!!! Okay I have always opposed AA but extending the Dartmouth deadline is honestly crazy and completely unfair if its for certain minorities!!</p>
<p>I’m Native American and I’m totally digging it, haha</p>
<p>that’s funnayy</p>
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<p>If you think this is unfair, there are many other things that you may think they are not fair down the road. For example, how come there are so few minority professionals in the private sector while the same does not happen in the public sector (at least not to such an extreme)? How come there are special programs in many states that help minorities to get into some professional field with a much lower academic standard? If there is some policy, there is some reason behind it. Oh, one more thing: In the real world, there is often something you can do but you really can not talk about it.</p>
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<p>Yes, I am sure that you are. But for those who procrastinated and were born into this world without minority heritage, I can assure you that they are not “digging” anything.</p>
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<p>Actually, all minority groups are overrepresented in the workforce relative to their proportions in society. The one exception is Hispanics - as of July 2004. The US EEOC (a private sector organization) employs 614% more African Americans than their proportion in the public sector. The US Department of Education (another private sector organization) has employed 473% times the proportion of blacks hired in the civilian work force. When it comes to racial matters, the concept of “underrepresentation” exists, but “overrepresentation” does not.</p>
<p>Here is another piece quoted from the source I cite below:</p>
<p>* In the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (sic) blacks comprise 46.4 percent of the employees. The “affirmative action” or racial quota target for proportional representation (percent in Relevant Civilian Labor Force) for the EEOC is 6.4 percent black employees. Blacks are thus over represented in EEOC employment by 625 percent! *</p>
<p>[Blacks</a> Overrepresented In Federal Government](<a href=“http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/07/30/blacks-overrepresented-in-federal-government/]Blacks”>http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2004/07/30/blacks-overrepresented-in-federal-government/)</p>
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<p>There are reasons behind nearly all policies, but whether these reasons promote equitability is a completely different matter. The southern United States up to the mid-nineteenth century had a reason behind the maintenance of slavery - to preserve its economic foundations; however, this reason led to many of the most grave injustices ever known to humanity. </p>
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<p>The first step towards instigating any societal advance is to acknowledge that progress can be made to begin with.</p>
<p>@thoss, that’s the spirit!</p>
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<p>How drastically are Native Americans overrepresented? Most of us around here are unemployed…</p>