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As is it naive to think that AA has any effect other than to reinforce making choices based on race.
AA is a clumsy band-aid to the serious problem of cyclic poverty and lack of education in poor neighborhoods among certain minorities. The problem is lack of funding to public schools. The problem is a lack of cohesive family structures among minority populations. The problem is poverty severe enough that the opportunity cost of an education is outweighed by the "ease" of either working a menial job to pay the bills or a life in a gang or in the world of selling drugs. AA does not and never will address those problems in any way-it simply punishes some people for being of one race (gender) and rewards other people for being of one race (gender). That's an intellectually bankrupt system if you're trying to solve the problem of people making decisions based on race.
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