"Excellence, diversity together", by Leonard Pitts
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/5553378.htm
Quoting from the Miami Herald Column:
"Yes, many black students perform poorly in school. But it can hardly be immaterial that America spent 12 generations making sure they did. By law, by custom and by the ever-present threat of violence, the nation did everything it could to retard the academic progress of black people.
Although affirmative action was defended before the court as a means of achieving diversity, it's important to remember that this was never its most important function. Rather, it was born as a means of repairing damage America spent 3 ½ centuries inflicting."
I Agree.
K. P. Collins
"KP-PC" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net%remove%> wrote in message news:VkOfa.27700$S%3.1619972 at bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
| The Supreme Court decision with respect to the University of
| Michigan's enlightened Affirmative Action Policy is coming up in
| April.
|| ken collins
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| "P. S. ..."
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