Supreme Court To Revisit Affirmative Action In University Of Texas Case

The amount of time it takes to turn around the train of society however is not a question of time as much as one of method. Fueling the racial distrust held by most of the "black" community is not the primary healer. Equal status in education will only occur when there is equal or enhanced impetus for the acquisitio­n of knowledge. That equality cannot be achieved at the point of college entrance. The equality of the mind does not start at the end of the high school years, nor does it occur because of color. Mental achievemen­t in the majority of cases is due to the spark of interest in a subject and the desire to excel. Adding another log of what the “black” person is owed, because of the sins of the past only serves to inhibit necessary growth. Achievemen­t of equality is not going to be achieved through the adherence to the anger, the hatred and the feel sorry for me attitudes that so many leaders in the African American community promote. The answer is not in getting even the answer is not in getting a first prize trophy when you place last. the answer is providing real education by paying great teachers, not administra­tors, a bonus for going into blighted elementary and secondary schools. The underprivi­leged are not so because of color as much as because they have been taught that their color is a detriment.
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