[Petrova]

If you look on LinkedIn you'll see the vast majority of "African-American" Ivy League alumni are actually African immigrants. It seems without fail when I run into someone black that's a successful doctor or lawyer they often turn out to be an African immigrant. They're often quite coy about it and will only tell you when you ask them directly.

There's nothing wrong with immigrants but it seems as though immigrants are benefiting from programs meant to help the descendants of African-American slaves. The only question is if the Ivy League universities care about this or not.

[MaximumYComb]

A lot of children of African immigrants are actually outperforming the US population as a whole in regards to education.

[ponker]

The ethnicity with the highest fraction of PhDs is Nigerian.

[raxxorrax]

That is true in pretty much every country with immigrants.

You have a completely different disposition to education if you see it as a chance instead of something you have to endure with respective results.

Given, that doesn't apply to everyone, but is definitely a common occurrence.

[toomuchtodo]

> programs meant to help the descendants of African-American slaves. The only question is if the Ivy League universities care about this or not.

Where is it communicated that this is the intent of these programs? My understanding is that the criteria is simply race (and to an extent, economic conditions).

Should it matter if you’re an immigrant or not if the program is designed to provide an advantage solely on race and economic circumstance? If so, it sounds like the program should come right out as indicating reparations are the intent.

[neutronicus]

> If so, it sounds like the program should come right out as indicating reparations are the intent.

My (lay) understanding is that universities are (were?) doing a careful dance around Regents of the University of California v. Bakke[1], which permitted them to consider the race of an applicant in order to provide the educational benefits associated with a diverse student body, but did not permit them to use their admissions as a tool for administering reparations.

It's also my understanding that their compliance here is more littoral than spiritual, given the widespread on-campus support for reparations in general.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_Univ._of_Cal._v...

[toomuchtodo]

TIL! Thanks for sharing this.