Repeal of race preference programs: EffectsonAsiansandpublicreactions

[Barksdale, Yvette]

Hi Eugene: 

 

Perhaps Jews disproportionately went into the professions  - law,
medicine etc., because they were discriminated against in other more
"white shoe" enterprises - ex. Fortune 500 business.  

 

Also, the comparison between immigrants and African-Americans breaks
down because of 1) legacy of slavery, and 2) most importantly, I think,
because of the post-Reconstruction devastation of the attempts by the
former slaves to become economically independent - which was their dream
post-slavery.  The toleration of the Klan and other criminal terrorist
enterprises, in significant part, destroyed a lot nascent  black
economic power in the late 1870s - 1890s. Thus the normal "bootstrap"
that immigrants get when they come here, start small businesses, and
then use those as a platform to later success was destroyed in the case
of the African American former slaves. 

 

yb

 

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(312) 427-2737 (phone)

(312) 427-9974 (fax)

 

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[mailto:conlawprof-bounces at lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Volokh, Eugene
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12:46 AM
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Subject: RE: Repeal of race preference programs:
EffectsonAsiansandpublicreactions

 

    Is something rotten when Jews are 2% of the population but 26% of
the law professors?

	 

	
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[mailto:conlawprof-bounces at lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Jamar
	Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 10:22 PM
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onAsiansandpublicreactions

	 

	On Nov 28, 2006, at 1:15 AM, Rick Duncan wrote:

	
	
	

	But when a black child of two MDs is admitted and given a full
scholarship over a white child from a non-privileged home, because the
former is a member of a disadvantaged minority group, something is
rotten in the state of Allen.

	 

	And something is rotten when blacks are 11% of the population
but only 4% of the lawyers.

	 

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