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To: Rambi who wrote (217056)	8/26/2007 10:45:35 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 793955

very broad statement too, puts all black harvard law graduates in the same less worth group. I have met a few and work for one black harvard law graduate. one of the sharpest people i ever worked for. It takes work to find high potential people you cannot just assume because someone graduates from x place they are motivated, smart etc. There are many reasons how the person got into the university, for example i had a boss who was thrown out of four colleges , never got an undergraduate degree , yet got accepted to one of Boston's finest colleges graduate program and received his graduate degree. Money and influence opens up doors. I expect so does social and political pressure.

To: Rambi who wrote (217056)	8/26/2007 1:40:11 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

unfair for the hardworking, bright black kid who DOES deserve to be there, and then gets hit with this new kind of discrimination. Forty years ago, if you met a minority Medical Doctor from a good school, you knew he had to be damn good to be a graduate. Now the opposite is true.

To: Rambi who wrote (217056)	8/26/2007 2:22:49 PM
From: Whitebeard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

Law schools routinely pass poorly performing minorities. Then they hit the Bar, which is a blind grading system, and fail. It's been true since the early '70's, and is only now being commented on. That is to say this pattern has been present since the beginning of affirmative action in elite law schools. that's almost 40 years this nonsense has been going on. That's a testament to the dominance of the academic left, especially in elite law schools, and their inability to square reality with dogma. It's terribly unfair to the minorities involved and does great psychological damage. The left could care less. They have to be correct; affirmative action works, didn't you know?