"Affirmative action is also a big factor behind the higher than average drop-out rate among blacks in colleges and universities. In the California UC system, only 7.2% of minorities admitted under "special criteria" (code for affirmative action) graduated in four years, and less than 50% in six years. "White or other" students graduated at rates of 34.1% and 77.6%, respectively. This is the sports equivalent of athletes who could perform at the AA level, struggling at AAA ball. And those who could perform well at AAA, failing in the major leagues."
"South African President Nelson Mandela speaks out against "a culture of entitlement" and warns of "false prophets who seek to perpetuate the apartheid divisions and imbalances of the past, by presenting affirmative action as a program intended to advantage some and disadvantage others on the basis of race and color." Significantly, South Africa does not have public sector affirmative action."
"Ebony" magazine ran a series called "If I Were Young Today," in which older black achievers gave advice to black youth. Their advice was straightforward, their optimism striking. Work hard, get an education, don't blame others, your time is now. The great civil rights and union leader A. Phillip Randolph said, "[Black] youth must offer the future the same things that white youth offer and they must have the faith that there is no basic racial difference in potential for achievement -moral, intellectual, or spiritual. The future holds great opportunity for those who are prepared to meet and face the challenge of this age of science, technology and industrialism and social, economic and political change."
Oh, the year of this "Ebony series"? 1963.
2006-08-31
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