The notion that this country has an "inner circle of power, wealth, and influence" is simply skipped over.
Joanna
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>what do list members make of this?
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>cited in Undernews from Sam Smith's Progressive Review site:
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>HARVARD'S BLACKS ARE MAINLY IMMIGRANTS OR BIRACIAL
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>NY TIMES - While about 8 percent, or about 530, of Harvard's undergraduates
>were black, Lani Guinier, a Harvard law professor, and Henry Louis Gates
>Jr., the chairman of Harvard's African and African-American studies
>department, pointed out that the majority of them--perhaps as many as
>two-thirds--were West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or to
>a lesser extent, children of biracial couples.
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>They said that only about a third of the students were from families in
>which all four grandparents were born in this country, descendants of
>slaves. Many argue that it was students like these, disadvantaged by the
>legacy of Jim Crow laws, segregation and decades of racism, poverty and
>inferior schools, who were intended as principal beneficiaries of
>affirmative action in university admissions. What concerned the two
>professors, they said, was that in the high-stakes world of admissions to
>the most selective colleges--and with it, entry into the country's inner
>circles of power, wealth and influence--African-American students whose
>families have been in America for generations were being left behind.
>http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/education/24AFFI.final.html?ei=5007&en=92df04e0957d73d3&ex=1403409600&partner=USERLAND&pagewanted=all
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