Posted on 06/30/2014 8:30:47 PM PDT by TigerClaws
I know something of these schools - they are definitely looking for diversity - students of color - and will happily pay scholarship money to skim the cream and then feel good about themselves, and I knew a comfortably professional two income black mother (married, husband also professional) whose daughter got a free ride at one of the nearby schools.
A very expensive Catholic school admissions officer talking about how they gave scholarships based on financial need to girls from certain towns, that is, largely black towns, yay diversity, nothing about scholarships for traditional Catholic families with eight children.
Anyway, if you can pay the full ride at Lawrenceville Prep, I figure your child has a real good chance getting in, race and grades being not as important as they otherwise would be.
I’m glad I went to High School (not prep school) in the early 70’s.
At one time, England ruled India with an iron boot. They belittled the people as "woggies", they took the riches, they beat the poor. Gandhi advised his people to be excellent...to be noble, to be peaceful, to be intelligent, to exceed, and to generally show the Brits that the inhabitants of India were NOT sub-humans, were not evil, that by their very virtue, they would make the hated rulers come to see that everyone has value, that everyone can be great. And the Brits changed, and left. That kind of racism was suffocated by virtue.
If we actually TAUGHT history in our schools; if some black pastors actually PREACHED the Gospel of Jesus Christ; if some "community organizers" (agitators) actually CARED about the people they represent, rather than the votes or the money they can get through them...we might see racism gone in America in a generation. Idiots like this woman keep it alive, because they make reasonable humans like me look at the face of race hatred and say "You? Respect is earned by action...why should I respect a hate-filled viper like you?"
Why in the world do so many black people insist on being the same kind of sad racists that many white people used to be? If people like this would just be American, not mining old hatreds, things would change much faster.
MLK Jr. said he "had a dream" of a world where people would be judged on the contents of their hearts, and not the color of their skin. We say that my daughters "have no black friends." We say this because, of course, she doesn't see color. She has friends...who are black, or asian, or you name it. And if haters like this woman would work to be excellent, to be smart and not mean, to be kind like MLK and Christ preached...everyone would be like my daughters. SHOW me your greatness, insprire me, impress me. Stop BEING the kind of person that I now sometimes, sadly, expect you to be.
Yes, MLK said everyone should judge people by the contents of their hearts. I do this every day. I judge this woman to have a wicked heart, a cruel heart, a hating heart. Of course, this judgement on her heart...instantly, magically, eternally, somehow transforms into the assumption that I am judging her skin. Yep, when I say "this is hateful behavior", she is supposed to get a pass, because...well...EVERYBODY knows what I REALLY mean. And by virtue of her exterior, she is free to act horribly. I tell you, just like the last two elections...the most racist thing you can do is excuse evil based on the color of someone's skin. Dear, grow up, drop the rock, live your own life. My people figured out that hate is an ingestive cancer some time ago. When are you going to?
And by the way, your President sat in a pew for 20 years in a church where the "pastor" preached race hatred...and smiled as the congregation was polluted by hate. He was married there, his daughter grew up there, he stayed because it gave him power and political influence.
If MY pastor said from the pulpit, "Black people are evil devils!" I would first stand and challenge him using the Scriptures, I would then urge the congregation to condemn him, and if they would not, I would leave and never look back. Your President sat there and did nothing, which tells me everything I need to know about him. And today, and every day, when I condemn him for the contents of his heart...you know it...I am called a racist, because that is the only card that people like you have left to play. Sorry, he is at best a bad Christian, at worst a closet Muslim, and you are as filled with error and hatred as he is.
You’re probably right, because I’ve also seen some of the smarter ones grow out of it.
Same here. I paid less for three years of law school than this jaded brat pays for one year of high school.
It’s not “a little kidding,” it’s juvenile and malicious, and while I wish a white male student body president would not lose his position over these kinds of remarks, he most certainly would. And since he would, she should as well.
The boi spelling sort of points in that direction, not to mention how many preppy guys would want to bring that train wreck home to daddy and mummy, including those with trust fund moon bats as parents.
The ex was prep, and she told me that in the late 1970s, the guys' Bean boots, maybe Tops-Siders too, had to have ubiquitous silver duct tape holding at least one of the pair together for that stylistic dash of panache.
It’s just a black cat.
I don't either. The best I can figure is it was mocking white boys. So what? Can't anybody take a little kidding?
I agree. And when I say I don't get it, I really, really don't get it. I admit I am completely out of touch on college fashion, but those pictures don't look "racial" in any way, black or white. And they don't at all look like it is trying to be insulting. They look like a modelling job for Sears or something. I don't see anything offensive here at all.
lol
Except for the goofy dreadlocks dangling from her head, I cannot see anything to be ‘offended’ about — except her stupid facial expressions. What’s the big deal? [She does look ‘geeky’ with those glasses.] Other than the glasses, she really needs to get a GOOD haircut for that mop she calls ‘hair’.
Preppy comes and preppy goes as far as being stylish outside of prep school circles, but it never goes away inside them. It’s a studied, affected, outdoorsy casualness wearing high quality fabrics made into conservative basic clothing. What appear to be very minor details make all the difference in the world to actual preps, it’s got to be authentic.
That said, I’ve worn similar in the early eighties. Still have the LL Bean duck shoes, those things are great. Indestructible and still waterproof after all that time. Wearing a collegiate pullover on top of an untucked button-down dress shirt is more recent, but you see that all over the place even with blazers in some cities. The print on the duck cloth pants is a little different, but I know from working with a few southern purveyors of preppy style that prints are a big deal so she’s probably got it down pat.
Looks better in that than her usual getup from what I can see, whether she intended to mock or not.
‘Birth control glasses’? That was my first thought.
When I saw them, I thought she needed to add a piece of white tape to the nose piece between the lenses to complete her ‘geek’ look. Sadly, I don’t think these ‘birth control’ glasses will have any effect on whether she gets laid and pregnant.
I’d be mad too if God made me an ugly lesbian.
Maybe her parents are driven BUPPIES, are driving her and she has an unhappy home life.
Kids try on a lot of different faces until they find one that fits. Yeah, I’ll cut a youngster slack.
That’s pretty funny!
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