Sotomayor Should Not Apologize For Being an ‘Affirmative Action Baby’
Affirmative action brings up some uncomfortable questions about the American education system. Why, if Sotomayor was so intelligent, did she not score highly enough – on standardised, anonymously marked tests – to get into these colleges?
There are huge chunks of the American population who are just as intelligent as the children of the elites but who are not being educated to the same standard. Most of them are ethnic minorities. AA is designed to hide that fact and to avoid having to actually deal with it. If it works so well, why the black failure rate for the bar exam six times higher than for whites? Why is the drop out rate for all recipients of AA so much higher than the rest of the population?
Oh, and the reason you were saddled with the label “affirmative action baby” is because AA leaves the people who it is claimed need it the most with the assumption that they can’t make it on their own merits.
