The thing is that there will always be preferential treatment to legacies, and families taht make big contributions....it may go more "underground" but it won't stop.
I think they are two seperate issues that shouldn't be connected.
You are probably right that from a statistical point of view that the black kid faced more obstacles through life. It is of course a generalization, but as you say without a "score" of hardship maybe we have no other way but to go on generalizations. I hate generalizations though!
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Date: 2003-06-23 09:05 am (UTC)I think they are two seperate issues that shouldn't be connected.
You are probably right that from a statistical point of view that the black kid faced more obstacles through life. It is of course a generalization, but as you say without a "score" of hardship maybe we have no other way but to go on generalizations. I hate generalizations though!