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the policy of racial preference to right past wrongs has been in place since the sixties....although the SC said it's not constituional....It might have kept me out of spot at college....because my working class Jewish parents I learned then as now were from a privleged class of white people so I had to do penance for slavery. if I complained about this in the seventies then I was "racist." No one at my hs , no counselor ever suggested I try for the Ivy league and financial assistance....so different from the counselors at the HS s at which I taught who were very involved in helping students find a suitable university.....well I got into a good NY State university....on the basis of my grades. took out loans , got work study on campus and worked from HS grad to univr. graduation each summer as my coevals flew to Luxumbourg on Icelandic airway for their summers. After college grad I got my chance....finally.

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