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Petition Demanding Black Students Be Exempt From Failing Grades Has 1,300 Signatures
downtrend.com ^ | december 17, 2014 | robert gehl

Posted on 12/22/2014 4:32:56 PM PST by lowbridge

When Columbia Law School let Black students postpone their final exams because they might be “traumatized” by recent protests, they really let the cat out of the bag.

Now students at Oberlin College, one of the most liberal college in the country are demanding African-American students be completely exempt from failing this semester because they’re so deeply affected in “times like this.”

So far, the Ohio college has said they will allow professors to exercise “flexibility” in “emergency incomplete requests,” but has not given a flat out “pass” to all Black students.

This is making students really whiny. In a poorly written petition to Oberlin President Marvin Krislov – that has more than 1,300 signatures – the students lay out their “demands:”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: oberlin; ohio; racism
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Why judge whites on this at all? Let blacks be judged according to their own standards of worth-or lack of it. They’re the ones asking for this.


21 posted on 12/22/2014 4:51:45 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: lowbridge

Yeah, I am going to hire a Black lawyer from Columbia.

And it isn’t my job to figure out if the years
of attendance include now.

They lose just for asking.


22 posted on 12/22/2014 4:52:19 PM PST by freedumb2003 (AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
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To: lowbridge

I am absolutely for this.

Dumber people mean less competitors, which means “I win!”


23 posted on 12/22/2014 4:52:50 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: umgud
This guarantees blacks will be judged on their skin color instead of their grades when looking for employment.

You are correct sir. I could say what I really think, but I will keep it to myself.

24 posted on 12/22/2014 4:53:51 PM PST by Mark17 (So gracious and tender was He. I claimed Him that day as my savior, this stranger of Galilee)
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To: lowbridge

Affirmative action admissions that get an automatic pass when they fail a test. Sounds like someone I’d want to hire. But since I can’t discriminate on the basis of race, I think I’d just send any Columbia Law School or Oberlin undergrad resumes straight to the recycle bin. And I won’t waste the effort to see what year they attended. There are enough qualified applicants from other schools.


25 posted on 12/22/2014 5:00:55 PM PST by PAR35
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To: MUDDOG

Black Students Be Exempt From Failing Grades
Obama was.

Grades? Grades???
We don’t need no stiiinking grades.


26 posted on 12/22/2014 5:03:13 PM PST by sasquatch
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To: lowbridge
Bar exam photo: BK Bar Exam flyer l_f4ce39e19c784a7cb3d3a9e639bf6a22.jpg

Unless they are going to exempt them from failing that Bar Exam it ain't much help.

27 posted on 12/22/2014 5:03:44 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: lowbridge
Great idea!! Next, let's do away with elections for public office and just appoint the blackest guy who can read nonsensical text from a teleprompter that is on all sides of every issue without ever lighting on any of them on one side or the other in the most oratorical manner.
Oh, wait!!
28 posted on 12/22/2014 5:04:49 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: Vendome

Sorry, you don’t win. They do.


29 posted on 12/22/2014 5:04:53 PM PST by sasquatch
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To: lowbridge

Too dumb to fail?


30 posted on 12/22/2014 5:05:47 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: lowbridge

This is easy. Pass all the black students and fail the white ones. Then make the white students pay for their tuition and the tuition of a black student. Then have any white students who happen to graduate and find a job in this Oconomy support every black student who doesn’t graduate or find a job, and apologize to the black students for having to do so. Problem solved.


31 posted on 12/22/2014 5:06:37 PM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: lowbridge

Lazy good for nothings. You people need to get your priorities straight or suffer the consequences like NORMAL PEOPLE. If you can’t, then your deserve to fail.


32 posted on 12/22/2014 5:07:46 PM PST by grimalkin (We are a nation under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone under. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Evidently blacks consider themselves to be inferior and therefore exempt from the standards applied to everyone else.”

Notice that women and minorities routinely fail to meet the standards that white men have been able to meet for generations.


33 posted on 12/22/2014 5:11:46 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: lowbridge

Low expectations


34 posted on 12/22/2014 5:14:17 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Pointing out dereliction of duty is NOT fear mongering, especially in a panDEMic)
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To: lowbridge

And so, all you potential employers of the coming graduates from any school going for this, are you lining up to hire said blacks?

If this has traction, it will hurt blacks immensely.


35 posted on 12/22/2014 5:14:19 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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To: lowbridge

Barry: I just find it, y'know, really, really hard to concentrate because of all the horrors, y' know, we perceived. It just really gets inside your brain and, uh...in college they have this thing where if your roommate kills himself, like if you come home and find him hanging in the closet or whatever, it's basically an automatic A for you. And I just think that kind of compassion is something to–
Carmen: [grabbing microphone away] OK, thank you, Barry. Who wants to go next?

36 posted on 12/22/2014 5:17:24 PM PST by TomServo
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

It is simple “The Bell Curve” explains it.


37 posted on 12/22/2014 5:17:31 PM PST by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: lowbridge

The professors and universities cram this liberal crap down their throats,and are surprised when they turn it around on them.....


38 posted on 12/22/2014 5:19:45 PM PST by cincinnati65
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To: lowbridge
Petition Demanding Black Students Be Exempt From Failing Grades Has 1,300 Signatures

39 posted on 12/22/2014 5:20:05 PM PST by Bobalu (Please excuse the crudity of this model. I didn't have time to build it to scale or paint it.)
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To: Vendome

I took the two minutes to watch the video on your profile. Oh so right!!! “It’s later than you think”, so I made up my mind... I am going to buy a sports car, a Porsche Boxster GTS, Guard red with black leather interior/red stitching. Thanks for the last piece of motivation I needed. :>)

Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think..........


40 posted on 12/22/2014 5:23:52 PM PST by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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