<p>Affirmative Action’s original purpose has been corrupted and at this point is getting to become one more window for entrance into the Ivies for the children of upper middle class either here or from abroad.
The fact that rich foreign “students of color” abuse the concept shows how badly it has served the minority needy students that supposed to serve.<br>
Now, it’s true that most people would try to exploit the system if it remains inflexible after so many years. Same it’s true for the athletic “hooks”. Who can blame them? </p>
<p>What was true of the sharp social inequities of the 50s and 60s is not true anymore.</p>
<p>The major problem for a system like that is that gives plenty of bonuses to the "fortunate” student of color but it doesn’t demand much in return.
Why and how to “give back”?</p>
<p>We know that after 12 years of substandard schooling not even a smart toddler’s mind can survive such harsh conditions and indifference by the adults.
When there are high school graduates that didn’t learn the multiplication table how can they survive as College students even in a community college.
Not much good will do AA for such a teen graduate!</p>
<p>So here comes the giveback not only for the beneficiaries of AA in college admissions but any FA student that benefits directly or indirectly from a government/public policy.</p>
<p>There should be required community service by college students serving the future generation of possible Affirmative Action students so they will not have to depend on nothing but their own skills.</p>
<p>Teach a minority student how to fish. Don’t hook for him/her the fish taken from another hard working young person. </p>
<p>A.P.</p>
<p>p.s.
The nonsense research about relationship of intelligence and race is almost funny in today’s world. Comedic tragically sad for someone that lives in Northern Ireland.</p>
<p>What nonsense!</p>
<p>Are the Irish Protestants more intelligent than the Irish Catholics when both were killing each other’s neighbors for so many decades?
Is the Ashkenazi in Israel really less genetically smart than the one that lives in the USA?
Are really the blacks of the Virgin Islands or the Caribbean genetically smarter than the blacks living in the USA?
Race is not a factor of intelligence or success in college but other factors are: Quality of primary and secondary education, socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds and environments, etc.</p>