Oyster: Let me make my directions clear, the setting for this thread should remain a formal setting. Which means: treat everyone with the upmost respect, make only educated and scholarly posts, and prove points through logic and reasoning which others can relate to. If any posts fails to meet such requirements, they should be removed.

If you would like to speak about educational status involving races, consider that many poor minority groups may not have the same opportunities to acquire a private school education as more wealthy majority groups. For instance, Florida's public school system is terrible; however, I am fortunate enough to belong to the middle-upper class so my family can spend $18,000 a year on my education. My junior class consists of only 3 African-Americans. I can certainly tell you there are many more white students then black.

My friend brought up a very interesting point about Affirmative Action. He said that affirmative action is a great idea if it weren't done by race or sex. Alternatively, he preposed Affirmative Action to be a method to grant equal opportunity based on economical factors rather than racial. For instance: The 3 African-Americans that are in my junior class are quite wealthy, yet they have even more opportunities than a wealthy majority member like myself has. His family hasn't been robbed of opportunities from their race. This is why economics would be a greater judgement for Affirmative Action. Thus, reverse discrimination doesn't acquire; however, people of all races who aren't granted the fiscal financing to actually become equally educated with other individuals would have equal chances at acquiring prosperity.

That whole suggestion promotes hard-working rather than racial gifts.