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But, you know, they could have treated NC A&T students with respect, just in case, especially given the general problems with the U.S. news rankings as a heuris

• jimbob45 6y ago
  But there’s no reason to think they wouldn’t treat a similar-caliber school the exact same way as NC A&T. Pointing to race as the reason is a very bold conclusion
  • zucker42 6y ago
    The thing about a complex sociological phenomenon like systemic racial bias is that for each individual instance it is hard create a causal link. Yes, you can propose a lot alternate explanations for why this could have happened. The thing is, usually people writing anecdotes like this see them as connected to or emblematic of other experiences they and others have had. So, I think if you consider the evidence as a whole rather than each instance by itself, racial bias serves as a decent explanation for some of the observed effects.