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Originally Posted by jimmyb
yup. For many years Oprah was the worlds highest paid entertainer. We twice elected a self indentified black man president. The highest paid pro football player is black. the highest paid pro basketball player is black. Some of Hollywoods best are black and millionaires many times over. How about musicians. Anyone can go to college these days.
Equal opportunity means laws and policies require that individuals be judged on qualifications without regard to gender, race, age etc.
Affirmative action requires judgement with regard to such group membership, receiving preferential treatment or compensatory treatment, and in some cases to achieve more proportional representation in various institutions and occupations.
The results are all around us.
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Surely you see the issue with focusing on the outliers when examining any dataset, right?