Randall Kennedy

We're going to have a boost for men in certain circumstances.

Well, the type of affirmative action that gets most attention, and that's worth noting as well,

There's lots of different sorts of affirmative action, but when you say affirmative action, the type of affirmative action that immediately people are thinking about is racial affirmative action.

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Why is it that we – again, there's various –

ways in which institutions reach out to help various sectors of our population?

Why is it that this is the one that generates all of the pulling out of hair and gnashing of teeth?

We can put that to the side for a moment.

Racial affirmative action refers to efforts in which institutions reach out to provide assistance to racial minorities.

Now, the reaching out can happen in different ways.

A light form of affirmative action might be reaching out in terms of recruiting, making a special effort to make sure that young people, let's say, in racial minority neighborhoods know about your college.

You know, that's, you know, recruitment.

On the other hand, racial affirmative action might take more, you know, might take a stronger form.

It might take the form of saying, okay, we have a competition.

And we think that there will be too few racial minority kids involved.

who do well enough in this competition to be admitted to our school.

So what we're going to do is we are going to, in various ways, give a boost to the minority kids.

If it comes down to you have two kids, they both, you know, I don't know, have, you know, 99 on the test.

There's one place left.