You've just gotta love affirmative action.The only people who really benefit are the guilt ridden "progressives" whose consciences are assuaged by the justice of it all.
Funny how Ted Kennedy never gave up his seat to a half black,half Hispanic,half Pacific Islander lesbian however.
I had a latino co-worker, originally from South America, who was very proud of his Spanish roots and plastered his cubicle with maps of Spain and other related stuff. I got him really pissed-off when I claimed that Spain became a 3rd-rate nation when they expelled the Jews in the 15th-century, as they ended up kicking out all the smartest people running things in Spain, and Spain never recovered. But it's true; everywhere the Jews settle, the host nation benefits from the Jews intelligence.
So with an influx (or deluge) of latin immigrants into the U.S.A., are we seeing an improvement or a decline in smartness?
Yeah, sure. You've heard it said...... That makes it fact. What an idiotic assertion.
Sure, jews are smart. That's why jews in America consistently vote for the baby killing, fag embracing dims.
Go peddle your stupid crap someplace else.
Uh, I don't think so, Einstein.
Wait...
“My former girlfriend,a Radcliffe grad,had a friend who worked in Harvard’s admissions office who told her that were it not for affirmative action the freshman classes at Harvard would be made up almost entirely of Jews and Asians.”
I believe that is slightly wrong. At Stanford, they basically put up a academic bar (like high jumping) of purely academic criteria. Clear the bar and you are in the pool of applicants. After that it is recomendations, extra curriculars, diversity, sports, leadership, music, alumni connections, do your parents donate and how much, are you popular in school, are you attractive, what race and sex, what part of the country do you come from, etc.
So basically at Stanford, if it were not for AA there would be a lot of jews, asians and whites (while on pure academics the whites are behind, the other factors and pure numbers mean a lot of whites clear the academic bar and are in the pool) with a smattering of blacks and hispanics.
With AA, the only change is there is probably twice the number of blacks and hispanics.
I suspect the similar thing happens at Harvard.
One of my favorite Ronald Reagan stories reportedly goes like this: When he was Governor of California, he pushed for straight merit criteria in college admissions. One of his aides said, "But Governor, if we did that, U. Cal. Berkely would be 90% Asian." To which he replied, "So?"