The fact is that the single biggest group of affirmative action recipients is white women. It follows then that the next biggest group to benefit the most is white men, those most likely to marry white women. Consider that two-income households are a major reason for difference in income strata. Single mothers, especially minorities, are the poorest and single white men are the group that is losing the most in comparison to past years.
And low and behold the silly white men who complain when the ingenious Asian in their class gets into a top school and they don't. Asians aren't helped by affirmative action, as much as I hate to say it to the self-respect deprived whiners. But that points to a group that is getting screwed. Pacific Islanders are among the poorest demographic groups with the fewest resources and are considered Asian demographically...

Anyone still believe affirmative action is doing what it's supposed to? Helping white middle class couples, doing little for poor minorities (we'd have to improve primary schools for that) and nothing for certain poor groups.

Of course this pales in comparison to the real affirmative action: sports. Female athletes are actually the biggest group to get into college on bases other than academic merit. All because schools depend on sports revenue.
This of course sets the misguided notion, especially among some poor minorities (and more than a few neanderthal "football dads") that sports are better to specialize in than academics or trade skills.

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-opening from Tales From the Darkside

Ofcourse. That why i'm against gender based and race based afirmative action. Is a rich black kid who has slightly lower grades that applies to stanford more priorty than a rich white kid with better grades. What about the poor white boys, i know alot of white ppl in the same situation that i'm in that can't pay for college. Women out number men in college, i saw first had how I would apply for scholarship then some girl i knew that got the same grades as me and did everthing like me got the scholarship

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In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is the king
- Nas

Affirmative action isn't as well executed as it should be. But it's there for a reason.

Keep the following in mind:

-Women are still discriminated against
-It's not just about school admission
-It isn't about class

You can no longer argue that women are discriminated against for it is now male children who are falling behind in school as well as females being a majority in college.

Keeping in mind that I live in Massachusetts, I often find that girls in my class are better treated than males.

The odd thing about discrimination is that once it is no longer institutionalized, it becomes invisible.

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside

You say invisible I say non-existant. It would be hard to distinguish between the two.

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And that's the Truth.

....only if you are of the belief that when you stick your head in the sand everyone disappears..

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."