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Because everything leading up to the admissions process isn’t blind to race. I don’t like affirmative action in a vacuum either, but it was necessary to balance things out.
Public schools are funded by property taxes. Class mobility is a myth, generational poverty is the reality, and the natives were historically genocided and black people enslaved. The result is that certain ethnic groups now live in poorer areas with lower property taxes and worse schools.
If this wasn’t our reality, affirmative action would be outrageous. But, what’s actually outrageous is how much these people are kept generationalally poor. If we had swapped out affirmative action for something that would help poor children get a better education at a young age and have the same opportunities when applying to college, I would laud it. But it did not.
Because everything leading up to the admissions process isn’t blind to race. I don’t like affirmative action in a vacuum either, but it was necessary to balance things out.
Public schools are funded by property taxes. Class mobility is a myth, generational poverty is the reality, and the natives were historically genocided and black people enslaved. The result is that certain ethnic groups now live in poorer areas with lower property taxes and worse schools.
If this wasn’t our reality, affirmative action would be outrageous. But, what’s actually outrageous is how much these people are kept generationalally poor. If we had swapped out affirmative action for something that would help poor children get a better education at a young age and have the same opportunities when applying to college, I would laud it. But it did not.