wkuhillhound wrote:Pwns wrote:
The problem is that you have a positive feedback loop with negative racial attitudes. You have incidents like the OJ trial (whether or not you think he was guilty, the fact is the race issue was allowed to take over whereas they should have stuck with the evidence), the Duke Lacrosse case, and all the successful lawsuits that proved that affirmative action programs have resulted in
lesser qualified minorities being admitted into education programs over more qualified whites. These things result in less sympathy by whites for problems that are legitimate and not imagined by victim mentality. When there's less sympathy for black people, black people get their feelings hurt (as anyone would in that situation) and are less likely to recognize a good bit of the blame for black social problems are not the fault of racism or whites. This leads to more incidents like ones aforementioned. Repeat process.
I've got to hand it to Obama for this one. Obama acted stupidly by injecting the race issue into something that was supposed to be about healthcare, but I think he has done as well as you can do to keep this whole incident from being part of this vicious cycle.
Do you really want to say that about less qualified minorities? That statement in bold interpreted by me. All whites are more qualified to be in college than any other minority.
Take a gander at MY high school resume.
1) Ranked in the Top 20 in the my high school graduating class. Class size 119.
2) The only Black male to be accepted into the National Honor Society in 1996.
3) In 1995, I was invited to a conference of The Distinguished African-American High School Seniors of Kentucky. I was the one of only 10 students to be invited that came from a predominately white high school.
4) Had a cumulative GPA of 3.25
5) Scored a 21 on the ACT. A 27 on the math portion. A weak score on the English part brought it down.
6) I was a member of group of economically disadvantaged high school students called Educational Talent Search. Among the 8 high schools in the region that I was from. I one of the 30 student chosen to go to Washington DC to visit Howard University as a reward for high academic success. Unfortunately, I couldn't go because on the previous day it snowed 13 inches at my house! I took it like an 18 yo man and graduated with high honors.
7) Not one but 5 universities highly wanted me to atend (WKU, Mercer, Murray State, Truman State, and Austin Peay).
If this is not a resume of a guy that doesn't deserve a college scholarship then you are the biggest FUCKTARD that ever lived and needs to be an honorary member of the KKK!
P.S. To say that I took offense to your statement would qualify as the understatement of the year.
Peace out.
New rule: Tired old whites using statements in bold deserve to die a slow painful death.
End of rant. I promise.
You took that bolded part wrong, and he was right with his entire post.
A lot of the problem is whites got sick of the minorities playing the race card when it shouldn't have been. This makes whites feel less sorry for minorities when the race card is really an issue.
There are also places who will give a job, grad assistant ship, scholarship, etc... to a lesser qualified minority because of the appearance of it, and not wanted to be called a racist and have that trouble drag through.
Granted there are are also places who do the opposite and give it to the white person because he/she is white.
I went to Wartburg College my first year of college and got no Fin. Aid. I got a 22 ACT, and a low math score hurt me but I was over 22 on every other portion I think. I had a 3.6 GPA in HS, top 20 in my class, etc, etc... I got no aid. However, there were people on the football team, who were black, that had a 2.5 HS GPA, 18 ACT, lower 1/4th of their class that got full rides....for being a minority. I kid you not, two of them showed me their award letter and it said "Minority Scholarship". That is the thing that pisses white people off.
Sara has a 4.0 GPA in her masters program, got into the Practicum course early based on performance, got accepted to all 8 grad schools she applied too, including 3 of the top 5 grad schools in America in her field of study, etc... She applied for a grad assistantship but didn't get it. This wouldn't be a big deal but the person who got it was a minority, again not a big deal, that had just been admitted to the program, undergrad GPA wasn't as good as anyone else in the program, and a couple other things. However, turns out she got it because the program didn't want to give off the "we don't like minorities" look so they gave it to her
