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Mediocracy and Affirmative Action • Part 5

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Implications of Banning Affirmative Action for White and Asian Students

When affirmative action was phased out in 1998, essentially every black and Hispanic high school graduate in a state of California was impacted. The University of California as a whole lost about 20 percent of its black or Hispanic students because of the end of its race-based affirmative action policy. "I'm going to be studying this effect where 20 percent of the kids who were going to enroll at the university California get bumped down"

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