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To: stockman_scott who wrote (67141)	1/20/2003 2:56:23 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

Let's hope the USA doesn't run their foreign policy on a melanin-content points system. My guess is that Mary Coleman got the job by being a melanin-rich, Y-chromosome deficient, unigender, crippled person. She certainly didn't get it for her maths ability. No wonder they don't like SAT scores as a means of determining talent. <The president [King George II] falsely claimed admission on a point system for undergraduates ''often'' uses race as ''the decisive factor.'' Baloney. As university president Mary Sue Coleman patiently points out, 110 out of the 150 available points (you get in with 100) are awarded for purely academic achievement. Michigan is not a huge fan of SAT scores (12 points), but it likes good grades (up to 80 points). Nonwhite applicants get 20 points, > If 20 points are available for having some unspecified melanin content in skin, then since there are only 150 points total and many [presumably] miss out due to not having enough points, then "often" is obviously how many times the 20 points would make a difference to those claiming the 20 point melanin credit, especially as only 100 points are needed. That's unless people with melanin are so hopeless that even 20 points makes little difference to them, and even with that turbo kick they can't make the grade. That might be the case if The Bell Curve is right with the data. If it isn't 'often' then the whole purpose of having the turbo boost for being some shade of brown is defeated. Does getting a suntan count or does the USA have pass laws which certify that one is an approved brown person with sufficient melanin to get extra racial privileges? Mqurice