Lucy Hamilton
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Yes it is the underlying belief and what you just stated is the same thing. The 'system' is flawed so minorities cannot excel.I would consider the belief that a minority group is unable to excel without your help a rather racist belief and the underscoring belief that inspires AA.No, affirmative action programs are not racist. They are not because racism is a set of beliefs and for an program, pogrom or other deed to be racist, it must be inspired by those beliefs in order to qualify as a racist one. Affirmative action does discriminate in terms of to whom its favors are granted. Discrimination, however, is not always inspired by racism. In the case of affirmative action, racist beliefs and the desire/will to act on them are not what inspires it.
That's not the "underlying belief that inspires AA".
The underlying belief of affirmative action is that the system itself is flawed, and needs a correction.
That is blatantly incorrect IMO.
"The 'system' is flawed so minorities cannot excel."
The argument is not that minorities "cannot" excel within the system, the argument is that it's just harder for them.
Why is it harder for them? Also it seems that even with 50 years of Affirmative Action, even that hasn't helped the majority of black people "excel", if it had of, then we would have these results.
Achievement Gap Between White and Black Students Still Gaping
After 50 years, the achievement gap between white and black students has barely narrowed.
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"The achievement gap between white students and black students has barely narrowed over the last 50 years, despite nearly a half century of supposed progress in race relations and an increased emphasis on closing such academic discrepancies between groups of students."
Here is full article:
Achievement Gap Between White and Black Students Still Gaping