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Hear Me Out: Affirmative Action Failed Poor Black Kids

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The Case for Affirmative Action

The case for affirmative action, even though the people who benefited from it most were white women, is strong in terms of what it has done for those of our race. "We know that from the top of white America to the bottom, there is not this string of benefit," she says. Black Americans do not treat classes real yet; they don't stand up and say 'It's us who will be hurt'

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