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lovedoc,
that was one of the most useless posts ever. i mean really useless. granted there was some misunderstanding, but it didn't need that kind of response. you are wasting all of our time.
garibaldo,
throughout your posts you seem to indicate that a lack of resources for predominantly URM primary and secondary schools is at the heart of this problem. you've come up with a bunch of different ways in which this could have been accomplished. you then go on to implicate the complete ineptitude of "democrats and blacks" for failing to get such measures passed. i'd like to point out that the "democrats and blacks" who have been in favor of such measures have rarely had the kind of political clout that is necessary to get such legislation through. clearly, there is strong opposition to such proposals and it makes things more difficult than simply brainstorming an idea.
you also contend that people don't prefer people who look similar to themselves and i'm pretty sure that every psych study on the planet done on the subject disagrees with you, even with regard to the most tolerant of people. where's your evidence?
anyway, so i was wondering if you think that signficant inequality of races in professional careers is something less than desired? if you don't think that's the case, then that's a simple bottom line, a respectable personal preference, and we don't have to waste any more of our time discussing things. if you do think that there's something wrong with significant inequality, i'm wondering what you think should be done about it...clearly, public school reform is the key to future generations but what should we do for the current geneartion of potentially up-and-coming professionals?
like i've said before i think that aa is a good basis for the solution. now i think that perhaps the boost for a particular race should be less than that for someone who comes from a tough socioeconomic background, and both should be significantly less than say a 1600 on the SAT. but i think that as long as you don't accept people who can't do the work then there's no problem. i mean, assuming the mcat and gpa indicate that a person can do the work, then from the perspective of a medical school, what's the harm in taking race into account to try to work toward remedying inequalities in medicine (please see the iom's Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care ), any more than taking into account the place where a person was born/raised?
-subtilis
that was one of the most useless posts ever. i mean really useless. granted there was some misunderstanding, but it didn't need that kind of response. you are wasting all of our time.
garibaldo,
throughout your posts you seem to indicate that a lack of resources for predominantly URM primary and secondary schools is at the heart of this problem. you've come up with a bunch of different ways in which this could have been accomplished. you then go on to implicate the complete ineptitude of "democrats and blacks" for failing to get such measures passed. i'd like to point out that the "democrats and blacks" who have been in favor of such measures have rarely had the kind of political clout that is necessary to get such legislation through. clearly, there is strong opposition to such proposals and it makes things more difficult than simply brainstorming an idea.
you also contend that people don't prefer people who look similar to themselves and i'm pretty sure that every psych study on the planet done on the subject disagrees with you, even with regard to the most tolerant of people. where's your evidence?
anyway, so i was wondering if you think that signficant inequality of races in professional careers is something less than desired? if you don't think that's the case, then that's a simple bottom line, a respectable personal preference, and we don't have to waste any more of our time discussing things. if you do think that there's something wrong with significant inequality, i'm wondering what you think should be done about it...clearly, public school reform is the key to future generations but what should we do for the current geneartion of potentially up-and-coming professionals?
like i've said before i think that aa is a good basis for the solution. now i think that perhaps the boost for a particular race should be less than that for someone who comes from a tough socioeconomic background, and both should be significantly less than say a 1600 on the SAT. but i think that as long as you don't accept people who can't do the work then there's no problem. i mean, assuming the mcat and gpa indicate that a person can do the work, then from the perspective of a medical school, what's the harm in taking race into account to try to work toward remedying inequalities in medicine (please see the iom's Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care ), any more than taking into account the place where a person was born/raised?
-subtilis