Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by akiselev on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:52PM (#36523141)

Pasadena, a decent sized city in Los Angeles County that houses Caltech of all places, was forced to officially desegregate in the 1970s but they've still got tons of policies left over that discriminate in housing [1]. South Pasadena real estate agents unofficial redlined the neighborhoods well into the 1980s and possibly even the 1990s. Schools, especially in Altadena, were still highly segregated when I went to elementary school there in the 2000s. In the 21st century, for f**k's sake.

And that's in a city adjacent to Los Angeles. We don't see many rebel flags in Southern California but the segregation is just staggering.

IME it's even worse in the East coast cities, especially with the way roads, highways, and mass transit are built. I'll admit I had no idea what true segregation looked like until I lived in Ft Lauderdale/Hollywood in Florida (in the mid-2010s).

[1] https://makinghousinghappen.net/2020/06/23/pasadenas-raciali...

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by kbelder on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:07PM (#36525266)

From that article, I don't see any racially discriminatory laws still in place in Pasadena. Plenty of laws discriminating against the poor, though.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by greedo on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:16PM (#36525367)

Oh the racism spread to the West very early in those states histories. Look up sundown towns, and Portland's history.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by selimthegrim on Thursday June 29, 2023 @06:05PM (#36527426)

Caltech itself famously had more black students in the 1970s than it did in the following three decades

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by whymauri on Friday June 30, 2023 @04:02PM (#36541373)

There's a network effect at Caltech, which does not practice AA, because it's so small. Basically, if you get into Caltech without AA, chances are you got into an equally good university with AA.

However, it's clear to the outside observer that your single-digit hispanic or black prospective classmates at Caltech are generally more miserable than your prospective classmates at MIT, Stanford, Harvard, etcetera. They are usually the only person like you in their dorm, or in their year, or in their major. So you don't go to Caltech.

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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned by selimthegrim on Friday June 30, 2023 @04:03PM (#36541388)

In the 70s admissions actively canvassed South LA high schools.

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