CanadianKid
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The controversy surrounding affirmative action’s effectiveness is based on the idea of class inequality. Opponents of racial affirmative action argue that the program actually benefits middle- and upper-class minorities at the expense of lower class Caucasians and Asians. This argument supports the idea of solely class based affirmative action. America’s poor is disproportionately made up of minorities, so class-based affirmative action would disproportionately help minorities. This would eliminate the need for race based affirmative action as well as reducing any disproportionate benefits for middle and upper class minorities.[20]
College Acceptance Rates (2005)[21] Overall Acceptance Rate Black Acceptance Rate % Difference
Harvard University 10.0% 16.7% + 67.0%
MIT 15.9% 31.6% + 98.7%
Brown 16.6% 26.3% + 58.4%
Penn 21.2% 30.1% + 42.0%
Georgetown 22.0% 30.7% + 39.5%
In 1976, a group of Italian-American professors at City University of New York asked to be added as an affirmative action category for promotion and hiring.[22]
A 2005 study by Princeton sociologists Thomas J. Espenshade and Chang Y. Chung compared the effects of affirmative action on racial and special groups at three highly selective private research universities. The data from the study represent admissions disadvantage and advantage in terms of SAT points (on the old 1600-point scale):
Blacks: +230
Hispanics: +185
Asians: –50
Recruited athletes: +200
Legacies (children of alumni): +160
I have a question to Democrats. How can you support Affirmative Action (and I'm in favour of it being broad-based, instead of race specific) in its current form?
Seriously, as a Liberal I'm kinda annoyed that Hispanics and Asians who are also minorities get the shaft. What makes one minority group "better" than another?
Lets here some Democratic supporters defend the current AA system.....
CK
College Acceptance Rates (2005)[21] Overall Acceptance Rate Black Acceptance Rate % Difference
Harvard University 10.0% 16.7% + 67.0%
MIT 15.9% 31.6% + 98.7%
Brown 16.6% 26.3% + 58.4%
Penn 21.2% 30.1% + 42.0%
Georgetown 22.0% 30.7% + 39.5%
In 1976, a group of Italian-American professors at City University of New York asked to be added as an affirmative action category for promotion and hiring.[22]
A 2005 study by Princeton sociologists Thomas J. Espenshade and Chang Y. Chung compared the effects of affirmative action on racial and special groups at three highly selective private research universities. The data from the study represent admissions disadvantage and advantage in terms of SAT points (on the old 1600-point scale):
Blacks: +230
Hispanics: +185
Asians: –50
Recruited athletes: +200
Legacies (children of alumni): +160
I have a question to Democrats. How can you support Affirmative Action (and I'm in favour of it being broad-based, instead of race specific) in its current form?
Seriously, as a Liberal I'm kinda annoyed that Hispanics and Asians who are also minorities get the shaft. What makes one minority group "better" than another?
Lets here some Democratic supporters defend the current AA system.....
CK