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One thing about being a minority is that you have to wonder exactly why things are happening to you the way they are. Racism isn't an unreasonable guess sometimes.
Granted, if you've got any brains at all you'll know when it's a possibility and when it isn't. But please don't paint it as if all minorities blame all of their social problems on racial discrimination. That's a very pervasive stereotype that takes attention away from where it should be - racism is more real than most people think it is (even today, yes), and we need to keep working to minimize it.
I don't know how I feel about affirmative action, because it seems so blatantly wrong on one level, and yet... well, consider this. Stop enforcing it and black and hispanic attendance at the average university will decrease significantly. Won't that inevitably do weird things to the American population in the future?
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