Letters to the Editor
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Affirmative action
I didn't plow thru the 140+ responses but in the 9 you all chose, you didn't address Thomas' personal complaint about affirmative , at least as practiced at Yale. Yes, Yale does practice affirmative action for whites--mainly whites. Yes, by their connections they do get well-paying jobs that are denied perhaps to others who are less connected. In his book Thomas played the game, was a good...boy..and his fancy degree from Yale gained him nothing. He felt played, he was played. The white guys felt good because they gave him a hand-out. But they wouldn't give him a real chance between they thought his degree tainted. I am not saying this is true. I don't know it is true, but if I were a "scholarship boy" and I felt as he does, I would also spit on this kind of condescension, this white liberal racism that treats minorities like handicapped people, expects little of them, and think they have little to offer in return.