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Old 10-01-2008, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by BENZ-LGB View Post
Incidentally, the use of quotas to give minorities a break has a far more pernicious effect (at least from my perspective).

I was admitted to several top notch law schools. I was admitted to those schools on the strentgh of my LSAT's, my college grades and the depth and quality of my extra-curricular activities.

No matter what my achievements might be, there is always that yahoo that likes to believe that my name (not Hussein) got me admitted to law school.
Mine too.

But with AA present, all we have is your good word. Therein lies the problem. Most everybody I know will say they got what they got because of their abilities. I don't know anybody that will say that they got where they got because of some handicap. So how will you ever know that race didn't play some small role? I can never be sure that I was hired because of my abilities and not the color of my skin.

The worst part of it is that you cannot prove that you didn't and even if you could, you would still be lumped up with those that did. That is why I believe AA should be scrapped ASAP.
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