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From: timlee@bnrmtv.UUCP (Timothy Lee)
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Subject: Re: (no longer) American Indians
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Date: Mon, 14-Jul-86 18:41:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 14 18:41:54 1986
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> 
> The idea is that the economy will expand over time to accomodate
> all people (ya know, more paychecks, more consumers, more business,
> more jobs), but someone has to break the deadlock. Even today
> unemployment among minorities is staggering. Not because the
> programs haven't worked, but because it hasn't done enough, and
> because some of the problems aren't being tackled at a fundamental
> enough level (like in our schools, and that costs too.)

Fundamental problems (like education at the K-12 level, especially in
lower-income neighborhoods (which are disproportionately non-white)
must be solved.  Otherwise, any other remedies are doomed to failure.
Example:  blacks attend lower quality K-12 schools than whites do.
They will thus be less able than whites to attend colleges and
universities.  If a college admits blacks who do not meet their regular
standards, they will flunk out due to their insufficient K-12 education.
The only solution is to provide blacks the opportunity to attend schools
which are as good as the ones whites attend (admittedly not a simple
task).