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After Affirmative Action

The Good Fight

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The Effect of Affirmative Action on Admissions

Pardon me feels like with affirmative action it was a bandaid that allowed you to cover up because we're able to say look, Harvard looks racially representative, everything's okay. But when our school systems have fundamentally failed African Americans or societies fundamentally failed black people then they are already at a big disadvantage. So let's get into what the system actually was that's a to begin with at the end of the gradient level and then we can get a little bit of a gradient level. About half Americans are in favor of that playing some role in admissions but they don't think you should play a decisive role.

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