NY Times Letters to the Editor:
As an African-American and a recent Harvard graduate, I have found that my day-to-day life
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NY Times Letters to the Editor:
As an African-American and a recent Harvard graduate, I have found that my day-to-day life
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tom scott
While I’m in general agreement with Antoinette that assistance should be economially based rather that racially based I think what she is responding to is this.
“While about 8 percent, or about 530, of Harvard’s undergraduates were black, Lani Guinier, a Harvard law professor, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Harvard’s African and African-American studies department, pointed out that the majority of them
Ralph Gizzip
Or to paraphrase Al Sharpton, “She may be my color but she ain’t my kind.”
old maltese
‘A rise in the number …, while not ignoring …’
Dear Antoinette:
Harvard has X number of places available. If you increase acceptances from Group A (slave-descendant African-Americans), you decrease acceptances from Group B (all others, including native Africans).
You should have learned that at Harvard.
Cheers.
Steverino
Old Maltese, you need to read Ms. Nwandu’s letter more carefully. Her point is that if the university were to direct Affirmative Action toward the economically disadvantaged, rather than by skin color, it would automatically benefit African-Americans while still keeping the spirit of Affirmative Action: to help those who need it most.