And if they went to college I assume, but don’t care enough to verify it, that they were Communications majors.
Dropdad was between gigs, dropmom was working at her first job in thirty years to pay for food, and I was getting $1.65/hr part time. My counsellor told me flat out that with my grades and class position (apex of the bell curve) I shouldn’t bother applying at U of Illinois. Applying at many schools cost $25 a pop back then limiting how many I could apply at. I tried a second-tier state school in Illinois and U of Michigan and got accepted at both, but Dad was incensed because in his eyes the only U of M was the Univ of Minnesota, so I went with NIU because DeKalb was (still is) closer than Ann Arbor. All for the best since I met Wife and Kathy Reichs there, but not Dan Castellaneta because he was a few years behind me, and Cindy Morgan (TRON) because she apparently avoided me.
I’m confused. Shodan writes “this is another case where young black kids can’t win” and he’s taken to task for adding ‘black’? The sentence makes no sense without the qualification black because it isn’t another case where young kids in general can’t win. The adjective is necessary, the criticism is unjustified.
I read somewhere that application fees can be waived for certain conditions. Like being the first in your family to go to college.
Kids nowadays can apply online to multiple schools at once using the same information. If you had fees waived, there would be no reason not to apply to as many schools as you wanted. It still might be some extra work if schools differ in essay questions etc., but hard work probably comes easy to a kid like Michael Brown.
Fox network is a regular old television network which runs such shows as the Simpsons, Family guy, X-files, You think you can Dance and NFL football. Each local station will also run its ownlocal news show, that gives weather, sports, local crime, and human interest, but not a whole lot of national news or politics. The Fox Network doesn’t seem to be overtly right wing the way Fox News is, and in fact many of its shows such as the Simpsons probably skew slightly to the left.
Thanks for demonstrating, once again, a way in which young black folks can’t win— the myth that the existence of affirmative action does not necessitate the myth that successful black people didn’t earn their positions.
It very obviously doesn’t necessitate it, since many of us don’t promulgate that myth. If you don’t believe successful black people earned their position, then that’s your problem, and your mistake, and your bigotry. It’s not the fault of liberals, or a policy, or anything outside of yourself.
Yeah. If the mere existence of affirmative action policies causes someone to assume that successful black people didn’t really earn their achievements, that says a lot more about that person’s biases than about affirmative action as a policy.
Don’t schools do that? I thought it was obvious that schools would value a smart, black student. As they should. Schools don’t care about diversity and such anymore?
It all comes down to whether you think institutionalized racism is, or ever was in recent memory, a problem that needs/needed to be corrected with force of authority.
JD is a law degree. Most attorneys, except for those now rare schools who still issue an LLB, have one. Its not that impressive, and frankly, the use of it implies that you didn’t pass the bar, and can’t use Esq.
Here is an eminently well-qualified student. Plus, he’s black. He can write his own ticket.
Face it - the number of students who score way high on the SATs is overwhelmingly Asian or white.
Cite. If you want “diversity” in the sense of a student body which reflects the percentages of a given group in the population as a whole, there is going to be one heck of a lot of competition for the 2%.
Of course. People can’t honestly disagree; they must be dishonest and/or evil. Makes it much easier to mock and dismiss those who disagree. Not as much fun to mock and dismiss folks who you think are decent and honest folk just coming at things from a different point of view.
