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Men talk of the Negro problem. There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have honesty enough, loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough to live up to their own Constitution

-- Frederick Douglass, August 1893

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I said I was going to leave the racial subjects alone, but..

Bruce Jackson dishes some dirt and comes up with a couple interesting points about gw's affirmative access. What I like best, and what we should here more of, is what he as a college professor sees.

I’ve been a college teacher for 35 years and I still don’t know what makes some kids do well in college and other kids not do well. I can tell you that it's not their high school grades and SAT scores. Neither do I know what lets some people do well and others not after college. I’ve seen students with great grades go into a life of marking time and kids who marked time in college go into a life that keeps getting better every year.

Some kids come to college far better prepared for their first year than others. They're easy to spot. Those are the kids George W. Bush wants to have first dibs on all the available spaces. But evidence of preparation doesn't tell you everything you need to know. Something happens in that first year to many of them and differences that may have seemed huge on one side of the admissions office become insignificant the other side of it. Often the thing that matters most isn’t the high school grades or the SAT scores but rather the first three or four college teachers those kids encounter.

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