The hypocrisy has reached new levels

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If that's the case (and I think I largely agree with you), what action can we support? Only action that isn't discriminatory? Or is there some threshold for fair discrimination between races? Obviously such a threshold exists between sexes, or for disabled people, but there are biological differences there.

Are affirmative action programs of any kind allowable? Ethnic scholarships?

It seems that this is an impossible bind: without discriminating (judging who can or can't do or get something on the basis of race), how do we rectify past racism, which by definition was racially discriminatory?

Jester

By helping those who were rendered underprivileged by it. In other words, base it on economic background.

It seems like you are ignoring Mith's suggested solution: reform inner city schools. This is obviously easier said than done, but many of the best solutions to problems are difficult to achieve. Race doesn't have a thing to do with it.

There is no reason to even look at skin color, economic disadvantage is what we are trying to fix, regardless of the reasons. Whether the child's parents are poor because of racism, natural disaster, bad luck, or just plain laziness, the child deserves the opportunity to attempt to climb out of their situation through education.