Hey, TH, it's been a while.
How goes it?
As an interesting note, blacks in america get anywhere from 10 to 20 percentile point adjustment upwards to get into law school(which gets larger as the school gets more prestigious.)
Where'd you get your data? In any event, my friend had a great LSAT, a solid GPA, and a distinguished military service background, so I don't believe he needed any help getting into a good law school.
When we entered school emphasis was on the LSAT, though I know that some schools have been increasing the value of GPA as a determiner, which has led to the general lowering of standards in relation to applicants accepted. GPA can be deceptive. The LSAT isn't.
As for your poor, poor friend's day-to-day hardships..he's lying.
No, no he isn't. And it's disappointing to hear you say that about someone only one of us knows. Rather, he's a black man who grew up in the South and whose family has been here, generationally. I don't know your background, but I'm betting none of that applies to you. In his living memory a man was lynched in Mobile, Alabama. That was in 1981, by the way.
Blacks in America are significantly less stressed than whites are. We have actual data on this. Stop gaslighting yourself.
If a black man is less stressed than a white man he must be high or ignorant of statistical data on everything from healthcare to violent death, from how race factors into treatment by the justice system, to infant mortality rates.
"Oh, no! White people forming and protecting their own communities?!? The horror!"
I'd say it's more a sad and ignorant notion. When you divide yourself by race it's not a sign that you're being particularly rational in your approach.
Why? Because during the 60s we started defining 'freedom' as 'access to white people.'
In reality, we defined it as access, period. That white people had erected social and even legal barriers to all sorts of access was the problem confronted, from voting rights, to lunch counters, to busses, to the right to marry, or attend a public college.
Every individual, family, community, state, and nation has the right to associate with or discriminate against and exclude anyone based on whatever characteristics they choose.
That's untrue at just about every point, as it should be. Everyone in this republic enjoys the same rights as the next fellow. When we erect artificial barriers to the exercise of those rights we violate the principle upon which our law and existence is founded, one that for generations was subverted by fearful and irrational minds.
There is absolutely nothing immoral or wrong about "racism."
That's a silly statement, except as a personal expression of valuation, in which case it's your business. Rather, in this country we have accepted as a guiding principle that every man is entitled to pursue the exercise of his liberty and right toward whatever destiny his ability and effort will afford him. Any artificial stricture, any social impediment to that exercise is contrary to the public good, is immoral prima facie.
Racism, outside of the confines of one's mind, expresses itself as that sort of impediment.