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In fact, racial preferences worsen this exact problem. Richard Kahlenberg, an education expert who supports racial diversity on campus, wrote about “the dirty little secret” of American education in his book “Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges.”
As he notes, “The framework of race-based preferences disproportionately aided upper-middle-class students of color and sustained a system of favoritism for children of alumni, wealthy donors and the offspring of faculty.” Affirmative action produced racial diversity that made it seem as if the admissions system was fair. But to give one example that Kahlenberg cites, the University of North Carolina “had 16 times as many wealthy students as it did students from low-income backgrounds.”
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