Re: Candorville 8-30-2005


Darrin Bell wrote:

>
> In California, the year after Prop 209 passed, minority admissions to
> the most selective UCs had been cut in half. In order to reverse this,
> the state authorized nearly $40 million for outreach programs in
> minority school districts. Essentially, to maintain minority
> enrollment, they had to do an end run around Prop 209. They basically
> shifted affirmative action from college to elementary and secondary
> schools. Because whether it's factoring in race at the admissions
> office or factoring in race in outreach, the principle is the same --
> you're giving people extra help based on their ethnicity.
>

As it should be, as educational intervention is more effective the
younger one is. Tossing an unprepared student into the college
environment, even with a strong support system, is a disservice to the
student, the college and the community. Granted, a few will survive,
and even thrive, but I think they are the small minority.

Better secondary and (especially) primary eduation programs for
children at risk will not only allow minorities to compete in college
more cost effectively, but also benefits those children who would not
normally attend college.

> I look at affirmative action purely from a pragmatic viewpoint, not an
> ideological one. I don't think Blacks or Latinos (or whomever) should
> be beneficiaries of affirmative action for the sake of historical
> payback. I think they should benefit from it (as I did, as Ward
> Connerly did, as I suspect Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice may have)
> because without it, and without the resulting careers, role models and
> economic elevation, there's a much greater chance of perpetuating a
> cycle of poverty and ignorance that affects everyone.
>

I think one negative side-effect of affirmative action, right or wrong,
is that minorities who suceed with the help of affirmative action have
a stigma of "he only made it because they ahve to fill a quota."
Affirmative action recepients have to be "Super Black/Latino/Woman" to
overcome those perceptions. That is not fair on so many levels...

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