Eric Siu argues that affirmative action at elite schools like Harvard can backfire, claiming African-American students admitted there sometimes struggle academically and would do better elsewhere. He supports equal opportunity but says the policy doesn't always work out as intended.
He's an African-American in the '70s or '80s. He's just like, affirmative action is a bunch of baloney, right? You know, at Harvard they were actually letting in the white kids, but then he's like, they're letting in African-Americans, Blacks, but they can't compete. So they end up failing, flunking out on like a lot of the tests. And you are actually better off sending them to another school where they probably would have done pretty good, but they just can't compete. And so they end up getting screwed over because of affirmative action. So I do agree with, with equal opportunity, but like, you know, stuff like that sometimes ends up not working out. So
