What do you mean by "the means to make it through" ? Are you talking 
financial? If that's the case, wouldn't poor whites have the same difficulty 
as poor minorities?

Elite programs weed out the weak based upon academic prowess....this is how 
they define themselves as "elite". Academic prowess has nothing to do with 
race.

I still don't fully understand your reason for supporting AA.

>
> I agree the first part is unfair.  Perhaps the 2nd part is unfair.  The
> Supreme Court would disagree with you.  More over, graduate programs at
> elite programs often have a way of weeding out the weak.  Of course
> there are always exceptions.  But poor minorities often don't have the
> means to make it through unless they can show at least a competent
> understanding of the material.
>
> Again, it would be in my personal best interest if Affirmative Action
> was outlawed.  It's rather anti-Randian of me to support an idea that is
> so directly against me, but I'm Kantian so I have no regrets.
>
>
> -- 
> 2004 - The year $184M couldn't buy a pennant.
>
> Ron Artest: Extremely flawed, very accidental, semi-martyr
>
>
> 

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