ning of access to higher education for all Americans. The end of desegregation met with different degrees of success in some states than others, like Mississippi where failure to develop an integration plan lead to U.S. Justice Department intervention. Yet, in light of today’s realities, the simple truth is that affirmative action, weighting academic standards, and other actions like remedial placement that are meant to level the disparate playing field between blacks and whites are no longer necessary. Take, for example, the fact that non-white minorities are the most rapidly growing percentage of the American population. Hispanics and African
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