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Originally posted by FileNotFound
I think I can honestly say that I am affected by racism when I get a smaller scholarship and am eligble for fewer scholarships simply because I'm white.
But of course thats not your idea of racism....no no no. Thats affirmative action!
Here's a little something for you. When I started my freshment year at Drexel in Information Systems in 2000, we have about 30 black/hispanic students with massive scholarships. It is now my 4th year (5 year program), fairly sure only about 10 of those are left. It gets better, they all had scholarships of some sort - yet the ones that I talked to had lesser SAT scores and school GPA than a friend of mine who had NO scholarship.
I'm not trying to say that black/hispanic studnets are stupid. I know they're not. But they do get the "easy" way in, get more benifits and yet claim to be oppressed. They get into colleges with lesser grades, lesser desire to learn, get scholarships and then drop out. Those 20 spots could have been filled by more deserving students and the money could have been better distributed.
Yeah I don't know racism at all...
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Ever been chased down the street by a gang of kids with bats
solely based on the color of your skin?
That happened to my father when he was a kid living in the Cherry Hill section of Baltimore City.
Ever been turned down for a promotion
based on race?
Again, he was (years ago), working for the Social Security Administration.
Ever been called a nigger? Again, my father has
AND I HAVE, so if the answers to those questions is
NO, then
NO I feel that you
DON'T know racism at it's deepest and nastiest.
What happens regarding schools and scholarships is a drop in the bucket compared to half the shit that still goes on out there to "minorites". What happened to James Byrd in Texas was only about 6 years ago, not 20, 30, 40, 100 years ago, and as long as shit like that can still happen, then there will always be problems with "race relations" in America.