Well, I've got a question to get us started tonight. This morning on the way to work I was confronted by an ad for a prominent test-prep course. Stanley Kaplan has been bought by the Washington Post Company and is poised to become a really big business. Here's another one, something I've thought about a bit lately. But we know that not all blacks in this country are poor, and not all the poor are black.
Poverty comes in all colors, including white.
It isn't totally illogical to use race not class. First, race is a pretty good proxy for class. Not perfect but there aren't very many Vernon Jordans out there. We didn't fight the Civil War over class. Finally, I question how accepted class-based affirmative action really would be in operation.