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More bad news for liberals. Stolen from Walt Bryars at newsfilter:

A typical argument against affirmative action is that it really doesn't help "disadvantaged" blacks. This is completely true.

Seemingly, ones ability to attain certain qualifications is a much better proxy for "advantage" than race.

Affirmative Action isn't going to give a black D student with an 800 on his SATs a preference over a 4.0 white student with a 1450

Logic dictates that If a black person and a white person are competing to get into Harvard, their families were more than likely "well off".

However, these people couldn't be more wrong.

Even when controlling for educational qualification, race is an excellent proxy for determining "disadvantage"

However, it is a good proxy in a completely opposite way than most pople may think.

A black person with the same grades and SAT scores is much,much more likely to be rich than his white counterpart

For the 1994 SAT tests , The College Board published statistics on SAT scores, adjusting for things such as race and money.

-Blacks from families making less than $10,000 dollars per year averaged approx. 150 points below whites and Asians in the same Socioeconomic category.
-Blacks from families making more than $60,000 per year averaged approx. 200 points less than Whites and Asians in the same category
- Blacks from families making more than $60,000 per year got lower average SAT scores than Whites and Asians from families earning less than $10,000 per year.

Source: The College Board "National College Bound Seniors : 1994 profile of SAT and acheivement Test Takers," Princeton, NJ

And what happens if we adjust for parents' Educational attainment?

-Blacks whose parents had only a high school degree scored an average over 150 points lower than whites and Asians in the same category
-Blacks whose parents had a college degree scored an average over 200 points lower than whites and Asians in the same category
- Blacks whose parents were college graduates scored lower than whites and Asians whose parents only had a high school diploma

Source: The College Board "SAT scores for each ethnic group by highest level of Parental Education, 1994" August 1994, pg. 16

(My "real" source was Dinesh D'Souza's The End of Racism...but these are his sources in the footnotes)

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So, if a black kid from a family making $60,000 per year has the same qualifications as a white kid from a family making $10,000 per year....the black kid would get a preference for being "disadvantaged" !

How could anyone now support AA in its current form?