“If you're going to compare a middle-income black kid with a middle- income white kid, and, say, you control for family background, family education, and family income, and if this middle-income black kid doesn't score as well as the white kid on the test, then I say, look, you haven't taken into consideration the cumulative effect of living in a segregated neighborhood and going to a de facto segregated school. You're denying a position at Harvard or some other place to a kid that really could make it. That's why I support affirmative action that's based on both class and race.”
Quote by William Julius Wilson
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William Julius Wilson
William Julius Wilson is an American sociologist renowned for his research on urban poverty and racial issues. His works, 'The Truly Disadvantaged' and 'When Work Disappears', have had a profound impact on understanding social inequality and racial segregation in American cities. more