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  1. Is affirmative action questionable, or justified on Feature: The Net- Boon or Nightmare? · · Score: 1

    But does a black family, in the same income, find it as easy. This isn't a payout of the U.S., my own country (Australia) does not do very well on this score at all.

    The fact remains that ajust by reading the postings here I can tell a black person attending university would be assumed to be receiving some form of assistance, and that a lot, (I'm not saing all) people would assume that this is wrong.

    I don't think many people whould argue if I said you were more likely to go to Uni if your parents also went to uni. While you can say that now, a black person would not be stopped from going to uni, was that true a generation ago?

    So there are a lot of these so called "minority groups" whos parents didn't study? and because of this overt discrimination a generation ago, people are disadvantaged now, even though the overt discrimination is no longer there.

    This is just a theory, but in my country a black person in much less likely to finish university then a white person. This would indicate that these is something discouraging them from continuing.

    I think that this assistance should be given out to the most disadvantaged. Who in your society fits into this category?