Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s suggestion during a hearing of oral arguments for the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin that African-American students do not benefit from attending more academically rigorous colleges is at odds with empir

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I often hear my white conservatives counterparts say that blacks think that the “America owes them something” and that blacks only want entitlements.  They make it sound as if America has given blacks everything that they currently have and that blacks have contributed nothing in return. 

So What Did America Give Us?

A. Conservative whites who imply that America gave these ungrateful blacks everything, often boast that they gave blacks “freedom.”   Freedom was what blacks had before they were en