On the topic of educational/racial inequity...

today i went to an open discussion on the policy of AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND I went away with a number of points,

• when talking about advantages while applying to colleges, people are so quick to point to the race card, and do not fully understand that these so called advantages are given to legacies, people from lower socio-economic backgrounds, or to people from underrepresented regions
• the education gap has not closed. We look around at Harvard and we are extremely lucky to be apart of such a diverse populations or race, cultures, class and ideas, that we mistakenly picture Harvard as a microcosm of a larger nationwide spectrum. This is false, the diversity fostered at Harvard is completely inorganic and in many instances true "organic" development of diversity very rarely occurs. Sometimes it is okay to force diversity because we cannot wait for it to happen on its own. 
• In order for affirmative action to be used effectively, people must look at the the uniqueness of the experiences a person has been through, the region from which they came, and the opportunities presented to them etc. I understand that much of this idealistic, and I'm not saying Affirmative action isn't efficient, I'm only saying that we live in an imperfect system and so striving towards perfection can only be beneficial.