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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (11402)	8/4/2003 6:07:07 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

The intermarriage as it proceeds through generations is going to make this racial favoritism very difficult to achieve in practice. Right now they use the "one drop" rule, which basically says that if you have "one drop" (i.e., one ancestor) with the "right" ethnic/racial profile, then you qualify for the favoritism. But is it easy to imagine that becoming unworkable after awhile. If Tiger Woods marries someone with no African ancestry, should his grandchild (who would be less than 15 percent African American) receive preferential treatment in college or graduate school admissions just because of one branch of his family tree? It is going to become increasingly difficult to sustain this system as time goes on, regardless of the Supreme Court's refusal (yet) to strike it down.