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Low income Hispanics & blacks are far more likely to go to college than low income whites (My title)
The Washington Post ^
| October 2002
| Laura Sessions Stepp
Posted on 10/30/2002 1:42:08 PM PST by End The Hypocrisy
After graduation recently, 2.5 million American seniors enrolled in either a two-year or a four-year college. Almost a million did not. They were overwhelmingly poor, male and white. Much to the surprise of social scientists who traditionally have looked for educational problems among minorities, low-income black and Hispanic men are more likely to go to college right out of high school than white guys. So are young women of any background, in fact.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Georgia; US: Maryland; US: Missouri; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: admissions; affirmativeaction; bakke; quotas; supremecourt
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To: End The Hypocrisy
Poor whites deserve to be discriminated against because they have the same skin color as some successful people. Only by targetting specific groups for discrimination because the share the same skin color can we finally overcome the evil of racism and discrimination.
Martin Luther King was like the pied piper of Hamlin, people were lured by the sweet siren song of living together peacefully in harmony. Instead they were lured into a dark alley, stabbed in the back and had their wallet stolen.
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10/31/2002 3:57:13 AM PST
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Godel
To: FrustratedCitizen
but there'd be no favoritism for them here...they'd have to work just as hard as I do to make a living. a nice dream, but not a chance in hell of it happening this century. just look at the somalian parasites flooding maine.
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Godel
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But I have a problem with this country locking out foreigners...this is supposed to be the land of the free...not the land of the free...as long as you were born here and are of a race we like and will generally be productive members of society. Then you pay for their wellfare.
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