Posted on 09/06/2004 7:10:20 AM PDT by Jeff Blogworthy
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Perhaps because American black culture seeks failure, violence, low achievement, and perpetual victimhood, unlike other black cultures?
The old race card just continues to be played. Frankly, affirmative action of ANY KIND IS RACIST onto itself since it all about racial preference and exclusion.
School is about learning which political opportunists ignore. You pay and learn, like everyone else. Has nothing to do with race. Those who have pandered to any form of racial preference have created an environment for political opportunists and weak, whining, lazy persons who want a free lunch as opposed to working a competing on the same level as everyone else.
****ing A.
Son of a gun! Bill Cosby was right, it is a cultural problem, not a racial problem. Who would of thunk that the Rap / hiphop culture was damaging to kids??
It's not the color of their skin, but the birthplace of their grandparents.
It has been said before, but bears repeating:
Diversity (according to liberals): people who look different but think exactly alike.
Good grief. As if the vast majority of American blacks are full blood Africans. Haven't we outgrown any need for affirmative action? Oh, I forgot, there are groups who insist on getting perks over and above those more qualified.
When my father was growing up, he and a young Jewish boy had to fight in the school yard every week. For a while, they fought back-to-back, together, as brothers. They were very close friends. I still recall my father's funeral. His close friend, Richard, was a pall bearer and he was crying harder than everybody else.
Racial discrimination is wrong and so are racially based preferences. In my humble opionion, the critics of Harvard's admission policy are just cry babies. Feel free to flame away.
"What Justice Powell was calling race-neutral diversity was always known to be a code word for racial diversity."
There are two code words for "true-absolute-complete-honest-diverstiy".
VOTE DEMOCRAT.
Since these other groups don't vote straight party ticket that are not really "diverse".
"my father was growing up, he and a young Jewish boy had to fight in the school yard every week"
What about the kids with big ears?
What about the kids with red hair?
Tell you the truth I was the smallest kid in my class and I had to fight every week too. Sorry no racial problem to blame it on. I'm not a really good vicitim I guess.
Picking your black student body on the basis of heredity calls for a very fine-tuned sense of discrimination. Does anyone see the irony in this "social justice"?
I have long written about and revered what it is like to be poor and white -- two concepts I have had much personal experience with. My latest blog -What is a Redneck-Sexual?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1187007/posts
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One day, I packed my pockets full of carefully chosen rocks for throwing. When I got to school, I waited for one of the bigger boy to toss a rock at me. I immediately retaliated and hit him is the face with a hard throw. Several other boys came to his rescue. I backed them off as well with hard zingers. One guy attacked me, I ducked his punch and hit him in the nose. My fist held a rock and my blow knocked him down hard.
A teacher who had allowed the bullies to attack me repeatedly, broke up the fight. Calling me a "trouble maker," he dragged me to the principal's office. The school suspended me for a week and tossed me out of the fifth grade. For the next three years I spent my time in school mostly day dreaming and drawing pictures and cartoons. From then on, school was a huge waste of my time.
That pretty much sums up my views on public education in California.
'No one has been more crapped on by society than "poor white trash!"'
I was in basic training almost 40 years ago with a white guy who, had never lived in a house - just out of a car - since the family were migrant laborers. He had never had a shower but attended school enough in the winters to pass the Army entrance test. This kid wasn't dumb but wasn't going to get a scholarship to Harvard. Needless to say he loved the Army.
I've read your post several times and I am still not sure where you are coming from. The thrust of the article is amusement that Harvard seems to be its own worst enemy. Admitting blacks is not enough, now they assert that you must be the "right kind" of black. Most people will find this absurd. Where's the beef?
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