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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: jrhana who wrote (100162)2/13/2005 11:59:14 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 793798
 
Given the chance black professionals have excelled (in my personal, subjective experience) in a least the same proportion as their white colleagues.

I suspect your personal experience is not the norm, jrhana. I am "shooting from the hip" here, [no stats at my fingers] but what I have read shows that the medical school minority experience is almost exactly the same as the Law school ones. The minorities don't do as well, and have more problems finishing. Again, they get accepted into Med colleges where their tests and grades are below the average for the school. They would be much more successful if they, like the non-minority student, went to schools that matched their level. The "minority preferences" are harming them.

Forty years ago, I figured that minority or female medical professionals were better than their peers because they had overcome prejudice against them to get where they are. Now I figure the opposite.
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