Justice Dept. To Take on Affirmative Action in College Admissions

Re:Justice Dept. To Take on Affirmative Action in College Ad... by adamsea on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @10:30PM (#14907456)

Make higher education a national priority, and free for everyone, and this issue would go away (though systemic racism and class-based oppression would not). There are lots of benefits to having an educated populace.

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Re:Justice Dept. To Take on Affirmative Action in College Ad... by csa on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @10:48PM (#14907542)

I humbly suggest the opposite.

1. Stop making a college degree a requirement for relatively pedestrian jobs.

2. Make education at any level widely available and very cheap or free to those who want it and demonstrate the motivation to perform well in their studies.

Most current education, even that at the high school level, is completely wasted because the participants and their communities simply don't value it (or worse, negatively value it). Note that this disdain for education is largely race-blind.

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