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Originally posted by warch
Its not slanted against. The white opportunities still exist, they are the tradition. (how many white college students and grads do we have in the cellar?)
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It's a bias, not a bar. It results in an edge effect. Sure, still lots of opportunity for white people. But, all other things being equal, the white guy who gets 950 on his SATs and a 2.6 average might lose out to the black guy who gets 900 and 2.3 respectively. On the financial side, the black guy might have access to all sorts of scholarships the white guy does not.
Occasionally it does get more blatant, as when companies and/or agencies are ordered to hire ONLY black people or lay off ONLY white people. But usually it's an edge effect.