The notion that Thomas stood to benefit from the same programs could be seen as hypocrisy, a criticism that has been leveled at him before by none other than Rosa Parks, saying in 1996 (as reported by The New Yorker) that Thomas "had all the advantages of affirmative action and went against it."
Nigerian Americans are more successful than the average American Caucasian. So maybe it isn't race that is holding down American born Black's? Maybe it is government policies instead? Plus incompetent Blue city education systems that graduate students who aren't qualified to go to Harvard?
Is it really fair to give admission to Harvard for someone who isn't "up to snuff"? Should you then create a special curriculum in their first two years to bring them up to Harvard standards?
This is actually happening more than ever in colleges. So many of their applicants were allowed to graduate not knowing the proper skills. So now colleges offer remedial courses in record numbers. So these kids often take five or six years to graduate, increasing their loan amounts.
They are paying college tuition for two years to learn what their free high schools were unable to teach them.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
The mere existence of Affirmative Action in colleges, taints well qualified black applicants. For example,
Clarence Thomas, who "graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude,[34] ranked ninth in his class.[33][23] . "He became a member of Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit honor society, and the Purple Key Society, of which he was the only Black member.[34]" The university that he attended is Holy Cross in Worchester, MA.
"From 1971 to 1974, Thomas attended Yale Law School as one of twelve Black students. He graduated with a Juris Doctor degree "somewhere in the middle of his class".[38][39] He has said that the law firms he applied to after graduating from Yale did not take his J.D. seriously, assuming he obtained it because of affirmative action.[40] According to Thomas, the law firms also "asked pointed questions, unsubtly suggesting that they doubted I was as smart as my grades indicated".
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Simply because he is black he is accused of receiving preferential treatment. Racist, anyone?
My university accepted a lot of high school graduates who didn't have the skills nor education to succeed in college. Lots of them dropped out their first year.
More didn't survive their sophomore year
Time to start pointing a finger at government high schools who are not preparing their students for the future?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
