Carolina QuotesThe average black student at MIT is in the bottom 10% of MIT students in math. But he is in the top 90% of all American students in math. Something like one fourth of all the black students going to MIT do not graduate. You're talking about a pool of people whom you are artificially turning into failures by mismatching them with the school.
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Thomas Sowell (on affirmative action), Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World (at 27m46s), 25 January 2021.
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“The average black student at MIT is in the bottom 10% of MIT…” Thomas Sowell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-E0F2C1BFFA. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/e0f2c1bffa
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