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Originally Posted by timalkin
I don't believe this is true. Why would an equal playing field have any effect on the racial makeup of the government? There would be no effect, unless government officials were elected on the basis of their race, which is a racist action.
Your statement would be true if all whites voted for whites, all blacks for blacks, all hispanics for hispanics, etc. Isn't that what we're not supposed to encourage?
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It follows directly from the Central Limit Theorem, blah blah blaghetty blah...
What he's saying is that if you assume that all races are equal, then that would also mean that all races are equally suited to public office, and would have the same liklihood of attaining public office. All other things being equal, one would expect that the distribution of different races amongst elected officials would track the distributions of different races amongst the general populace.