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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
And the only point I care to defend in this argument is that this assumption is pretty important to your conclusion, and I doubt I can be made to feel stupid for saying so.
Coach K runs a basketball program that competes with Kentucky, Indiana, UCLA, UNC etc. And he does so without being an enormous state university with huge populations of a wide variety of backgrounds. He does so at a school that boasts 10% black undergraduates, which is pretty impressive -- I wonder if Harvard could claim the same. (UNC has 9.6%; Indiana has 7.2%; U.Mich., 5.8%; UCLA 4%.) The difference is Duke is less than half the size of those other schools -- in some cases far less -- and it's academically selective more like an Ivy than the others. With an undergrad population of 6,500, that means Duke has 650 black kids. Calling Duke "lily white" seems unfair when it matches or beats UNC on diversity. But I care far more about admissions than I do about the color of the team. A school with 4% AA enrollment but 3/5 black starters would be more of a problem for me because it reeks of exploitation.
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Whatever. I'm not going to argue with you about shit that is completely irrelevant to the issue we are discussing. Frankly, I think most of what you said is ridiculous (much like your stance on cops and various other shit). And I really don't care if you feel the same about my opinion.
Let's hope that ends this discussion between you and me.
TM
