Our economic system and our education have not always been so unjust. From a post above it was much more like Canada's. We are still suffering from increased oligarchy and "libertarian" i.e trickle down theory that began to inflict American when Reagan won in 1980. The theory is of course funded largely by the same wealthy folks who own the media and who provide most of the money to elect politicians who pay them back by lowering their taxes. Under the theory the rich should become richer and should not pay taxes at rates they did previously in the 1940's to 1970's and this would somehow be be good for not just them. Their kids can go to school debt free of course. I am the oldest of 9 children who were largely able to work their way through the UT system starting in the early 1970' through around 1985. I got student loans that were at very low interest, subsidized by the government. The interest was well below that of mortgages and in recent years that has not been the case. In addition interest did not accrue until after you graduated. In addition no payments were necessary for 6 months after you graduated or stopped attending. Now for instance if you go to say law school you will be contending with 7 years of compound interest on your first year loans. Miss a payment and you are treated like a credit cars holder with penalties. Of course student loans were not as necessary as minimum wage had at least double the purchasing power of now. Most students do not have skills to earn much more than that. Combined with much higher tuition which is no longer as subsidized by the government (the rich do not want to pay taxes and they can never have enough wealth! ) It now close to impossible for the average student to work their way through school at close to 4 years and if it takes 7-8 or more years the chances of finishing go down.
funny how there’s no SC case or outrage over this…nah, just blame black people for why u didn’t get into Harvard or Yale black people also couldn’t benefit from legacy admissions since for the longest time they had little to no shot of being accepted at these schools solely due to skin color
I wonder if colorism is innately apart of our species. East Asians and Indians in their home countries will make fun of white people and believe with all their being that they are superior because of how they look compared to my Western European ancestors. I feel like colorism is less of an issue in the Middle East and North Africa where the populations can be quite diverse at the family level.
this is the 1st time I’m hearing something like this…all I’ve heard regarding Asia is the obsession with light/pale/white skin and aversion to dark skin tone and blackness I remember the commercials like this one where she basically washed the black off of him
when it’s a black person in an Ivy League, it’s automatically assumed they don’t belong there and are only there because of “lower standards” and took a more deserving (usually Asian or white) person’s spot but when it comes to all these white legacy admissions and donor babies running around, hardly a peep How many times have u heard a legacy admission being blamed for why an Asian person didn’t get accepted to Harvard?
Jamelle is awful. I'm still not sure why we haven't skewed admissions towards genuinely lower income folks. Scholarship and grants doesn't resolve any of this, and I tend to think a diversity of ideas also reflects experience growing up in homes with nothing rather than homes of a "non-white" culture.
What is good for everyone is to expose them to diverse environments and cultures. That is especially true as our nation continues to grow and diversify.
...should. ...but that's not the point. ...when the court doesn't change it's ruling (if it even bothers to review it), you'll see what I mean...
...you know... ...I went to one of those citizenship ceremonies once down at the county courthouse in Houston a while ago. (You don't want to know why I was down at the courthouse...although with my genetics you could make an educated guess) Surprised me to learn that the ceremony was open to the public. Anybody could be seated in the chamber. I figured, why not see what all the fuss was about... ...there was a gentleman that sat next to me who was from New Guinea, I remember him saying. Biggest smile on his face that you could imagine. He was holding a few index cards, and one of those novelty American flags you could get at a gift shop. He wasn't being naturalized himself. A family member of his was, a brother or sister, I think. His time wasn't for a few more weeks, but he wanted to be there to see it happen, and to know it was going to happen for him. He was going to be an American citizen. With all of the rights and privileges inherent therein. Didn't think it was my place to tell him not to get too far ahead of himself about the privileges and things. This was a happy occasion for him and his family. He'd find out all that other stuff on his own. Out of curiosity, I asked him about the cards he was holding. He told me they were answers to the citizenship questions that you got asked when you went to your interview. One card had the Bill of Rights on it, I think. I had to imagine that, for this gentlemen, the best part of becoming a U. S. citizen is that he didn't have to know anything about American history beyond statements of law in the Bill of Rights, and a few other basic things about the Constitution. This was some time ago, so I don't know how much, if any, of this process has changed, but it seemed, except for the 8 to 12 months it took to finalize everything, a remarkably simple process. I didn't have any idea how much, if any, of his native culture that he and his family would be bringing with them into their new American identities, beyond the general affectations. But again, in that moment, for him, what was important was being an American. His experience began, officially, on the day he swore his pledge, and that pledge entailed everything he needed to know about being an American. Honestly, it was kind of nice to see. I'd been home from my four-year stint in the military for a few months then, so I'd become a bit familiar with that sensation that most other people in the world envy. Too much of this nation's history, for most immigrants who don't know it or don't care about it, is unimportant and unnecessary to their sojourn as citizens. They don't have a past (an American one, anyway) that they have to forget about...or get told to forget about. Everything they need, and need to know, about being an American can fit on a 3"x5" index card and looked at for quick reference. My history, unfortunately, isn't quite so easily reconciled. I'm grateful for that, actually. There is one thing about history (in particular, American history) I've been thinking that Negroes would do well if they were to follow the Jewish example. If Negroes had the threat of space lasers in orbit, then we wouldn't hear a peep about which parts of our history is important or should matter or should even be known or acknowledged as even having happened. Nobody else gets told which parts of their history is significant or important or needs to be remembered or is even true. Everybody else gets legacy inheritances or grandfather clauses because some histories are more important than others. Confederate history is more important than black history, for instance. In any event, I'd determined a long time ago that the last thing any black person "native" to America should expect is anything like respect from anybody else. Nobody else's experience in America (historically or otherwise) is like ours. And our history means next to nothing to most people, whether they're familiar with any of it or not. Here's the kicker: they are absolutely right about that. It's why I was never a big believer in any "reparations" arguments, for instance. Or surprised or disappointed by any dismantling of affirmative action. Those things were arbitrary. And certainty could not be brought about or even controlled in any meaningful way by any coalition of people, who had any idea of how any permutation of those things might somehow be brought to fruition. Not that I thought anything like that could or should happen, anyway. Nothing was going to undo the better part of 200 years of systematic discrimination against black Americans anyway. No way to "correct" a "problem" like that overnight or piecemeal. And neither of those things was ever the choice of the majority of the American people. Nor would they ever be. And I never really had a problem with any of that. I learned something from my mother once. (Be ready with your ban buttons or your ignore features...and you might want to cover the eyes of anyone a little too young to read this next part...) "...boy, one thing you ought to know, is it's a difference 'tween n!gg3rs bein' loose an' n!gg3rs bein' free... ...run around acting you can do anything a white man can do just mean you is loose...and that means white folk turned you loose, and sooner or later they gonna chain you up again... ...anybody free don't go around askin' people for nothin' they ain't never want you to have in the first place. Once you free, what you need to make sure of is you stay free. Ain't nothin' else you ever gonna get more important than knowin' that... ...there aren't any specific places where people can learn about different cultures or customs or histories. People learn what they learn from other people, wherever they happen to encounter one another. Exposure, to me, isn't operative in that transaction. Willingness, desire, compassion...those things might get something in motion, but I tend to not wait very long on those things from other people. Thankfully, I've got a pretty deep reservoir of those things myself to draw from. What you learn from people should teach you everything you need to know about what they think of you. And when the standards they have for themselves or for like-minded others are lower than the standards they would set for you...well... ...sometimes, that's just about whatever's on the list of requirements...
WTF.....that commercial sure doesn't try and hide what its saying, not sure I have seen a more racist commercial.
There are places in the world RIGHT NOW where, if you criticize the government, you'll get abducted and beaten....by the government. If the naturalization process is a happy occasion for him, there's probably a reason for it.
0 for the educatin of Jamele Hill Ward Connerly, in 1995, as the University of California Regent, forced the largest public university in the country to become color-blind in its admissions policies, leading the campaign to pass California's Proposition 209. In 1998, he spearheaded a similar successful anti-discrimination measure in Washington, paving the way for the recent USSC decision on affirmative action for college admission.
