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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (151605)	1/18/2003 10:09:01 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Actually, those places in the University of Michigan were reserved for people who had been presumed apriori by virtue of their skin pigment to have suffered from discrimination. In the same way as people from North Dakota would have presumed a priori, by virtue of their address, to have suffered from the flood, even if some of them actually had their houses spared. Is it a reasonable assumption and a realistic, pragmatic compromise to equate a North Dakota flood plain address with flood damage? Yes it is. Is it a reasonable assumption, and a realistic pragmatic compromise to equate black skin with victim of discrimination? In the recent past the answer was a resounding yes. Lately, racism is more selective, although not as selective as many anti-AA people like to think. These applicants would have been born after the 1960s and 1970s when you say there was so much discrimination. You are twisting my words. I said there was severe discrimination in the 60s-70s. This doesn't mean the 80s get a clean bill of health. To give but two examples, Alabama only struck down the law making interracial marriages illegal in 2000. The same year a national survey by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University found that only 55 percent of white families would respond in kind. Is this enough racism to justify AA? I do not know. The issue is complex and requires careful quantification of the current impact of racism on a black person in America. But neither you nor George Dubya are asking for that. They assume racism is no longer there because they don't see it first hand.