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Allowing me to ask you a question. Because this is what really affirmative action is about. Do you think that a minority, for example, a good African American student should be accepted to a University Even have he or she does not have the best grades among the entire group of student candidates. And heres what i mean. So lets suppose there only 2 positions for new students left at this university. The one who is not a minority got a 92 percent. Right. So 92 percent between the grades and exams. The other who as a minority got 91 percent. One percentage less. Which applicant do you give the position to the one with 92 percent were the one with 91 percent. If you chose the one with 91 percent whos the minority . Ding, ding ding, you guess correctly . Because that is how College Students have been chosen in the United States, beginning of the 19 sixtys. Thats when the administration is at present academy in front of a job and present johnson bush for civil rights laws that brought about
But can you see through their illusion going underground . Can the fire buddy, im rec, sanchez. Ive been doing news now for 30 years and 2 languages all over the world. And here in the United States, ive interviewed for you as president s work that uh, some of the Largest Television networks in the world that i believe after all, about that new should be honest and direct and impactful. And thats why we call this direct impact the so theres this trend taking place in america. Maybe its really more like a reverse trend. Affirmative action. So you sort of action is supposed to give an advantage to those who may be less fortunate, but over the years, many argue that it actually ended up doing just the opposite. Lets look at it by allowing me to ask you a question. Because this is what really affirmative action is about. Do you think that a minority, for example, a good African American student should be accepted to a University Even though he or she does not have the best grades among the
Action. Which see over the past several decades, there had been many who have criticized that strategy. Arguing that giving an advantage to minorities is no longer necessary. And they go on to say that affirmative action actually punishes those who are not minorities for nothing other than simply not being minorities. They say, if you had the best grades, you should have the best chances of getting in no matter what your race or you are in the city is. Its not fair. So students including marco, the phone is, this is the 1st one to complain. This is the guy who filed the very 1st complaint about this. This goes back to 1971. It kills the university of washington of denying him a chance to get into a law school simply because he wasnt black. He said, now, after nearly a half century, the Us Supreme Court has just cited with him. They have cited with the furnace and all the other students who made the same or given over the last years. The court ruled that if you are applying for college,