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the whole affirmative action issue with colleges I support.  anyone that has spent anytime in a sociology or psychology class knows that humans repeat the behaviors attitudes environments and lives that they are exposed to.  this has become a serious problem in our society. blacks make 76 cents to every dollar made by white males (and the statistics are similar for females and all other minorities).  affirmative action is an effort to break the cycle of poverty which is very important in any society.  societies can't just have a large amount of people with no chance of ever achieving more than they were ever exposed to.  the problem is not in the idea of affirmative action but in the execution of it...  kids coming from poor backgrounds should have an equal chance, not just kids that are black.  when we focus on the minority side of it, it forces it to become more of a race issue than it is.  it is no longer about poverty, it is about blacks and whites.   and ya know about my own situation, yes it bugs me a little that the kid that got into the college with worst scores than me was native american, and went to a private school.  whatever though that is life.  when we let things like that get to us we will have a lot of problems.  if i had tried harder in school i would be in a better situation but i didn't.  it's just that it is hard to let things like that go when you see them, thus the need for reform in affirmative action.