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Affirmative Action and Sowell's "Inside American Education" • Part 4

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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Why Black Students Don't Make It to Top Colleges

We have more than three thousand colleges and universities in this country. Every human being that's not severely mentally retarted is perfectly qualified to be at one of those institutions. There are others where, if you're not in the top one or two %, your chances of making it are extremely slim. And it's precisely these second places that they want to send black students that they don't send white students of the same level of ability. At m i t, the average black student is a at the top ten% nation wide. One fourth of them don't make it. The next clip is from a conversation between sowell and peter robinson from the hoover institution, about

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