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In reply to the discussion: Robert's "long game" is to dismantle affirmative action [View all]ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)39. And your were probably better prepared for college than many other schools
Punahou as I recall at at one point over represented in the Ivy League, military academies, Standford, and UC. Not sure that is still true today.
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I am reading how some Labor historians think AA split the economic working class that used to
patrice
Jul 2012
#2
The abuse of authentic meritocracy is part of what HAS enslaved ALL of us. I'm old,
patrice
Jul 2012
#5
Workers need their own in-situ collectively developed job-specific evergreen merit assessment proces
patrice
Jul 2012
#6
Cowie says all of that was the end of the New Deal Coalition & the beginning of the Southern Strateg
patrice
Jul 2012
#7
i would like to meet some of these unqualified minority students who fail because of AA
EFerrari
Jul 2012
#18
There were any number of them in most of the big name schools, including Cal
ProgressiveProfessor
Jul 2012
#19
Please note that the Punahou graduate with less than stellar grades
ProgressiveProfessor
Jul 2012
#22
And your were probably better prepared for college than many other schools
ProgressiveProfessor
Jul 2012
#39
Lack of adequate preparation in high school is not the same as lack of adequate preparation by race.
Gormy Cuss
Jul 2012
#23
No it doesn't, thats false...AA has nothing to do with quotas and that's what you're pushing logical
uponit7771
Jul 2012
#44
To me it's not about "unqualified students" (everyone is qualified in a different way, imo).
Romulox
Jul 2012
#28
Clearly not everyone is qualified, especially at high end universities
ProgressiveProfessor
Jul 2012
#34
American Universities don't even BEGIN to teach the skills necessary for life in the 21st century.
Romulox
Jul 2012
#40
That has nothing to do with AA, that has more to do with racist memes than anything
uponit7771
Jul 2012
#42
We *must* comes to grips with the reality of a white underclass, then. To pretend it's all race is
Romulox
Jul 2012
#25
Yeah, it split off the Southern Democrats who couldn't accept that black people were citizens. n/t
EFerrari
Jul 2012
#11
You've not listened to both side of the issue either, you'd never thing it was unfair if the true
uponit7771
Jul 2012
#41
Since AA began in 1961 under JFK and the Voting Rights Act didn't even pass until later,
EFerrari
Jul 2012
#10
I've condensed about 50% of the book into that post. It was a much larger and longer process
patrice
Jul 2012
#12
I have to say that I probably agree more than I don't, though it may be close, with the
patrice
Jul 2012
#4
I'm wondering if we couldn't see that as a change in its priorities. A systematic relationship
patrice
Jul 2012
#16
Then you'd go back to race, seriously people...blacks and Hispanics didn't wake up and say lets be
uponit7771
Jul 2012
#46
You are correct, many of the same people that benefit now would continue to benefit
SickOfTheOnePct
Jul 2012
#54
His sole purpose, and 'long game', is to serve corporations. Simple really. -eom
Huey P. Long
Jul 2012
#26
The last couple of posters have nailed it. Start by guessing which position most helps corporations
Romulox
Jul 2012
#29