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The Disadvantages of Affirmative Action

In the night late 50s and 60s and early 70s he always would seek out a black doctor, because he knew that endemic racism and prejudice meant that if you were going to be a black doctor you had to be better than anybody. But then he said once affirmative action kicked in then he was less willing to find a black doctor and he would like to see a white male once in a while. He thought it would be very hard for a white male to get a different day medical school. These are the other minorities he did he didn't care about a person's race he just wanted to know how well they could beat the system. And so I had never thought like that before

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