[Sajo]

Well come to think of it I have some "black blood" in me. I want my share of reparations. In fact, probably most every American has some black blood. We all should get reparations.

On another note, I can tell you how to guarantee your child gets into the college of his/her choice. Assuming they are at least an average student, when they take the SAT or ACT, list their race as "other." I had my son do this on one of the SAT test administrations. He was innundated with offers from top tier colleges across the country...NYU, Johns Hopkins, Univ. of Southern California, Georgia Tech,etc. They all wanted to meet this deserving "minority student." I'm telling you this is the way to end any preferential treatment for miniorities. We ALL become a minority!!!

A school administrator once told me that they could not question whatever race the student chose to categorize themself. This is THE solution!!! Spread the word.

[Renegade]

According to an article posted last week , everybody is related to everybody . So we are all black,yellow,red etc. and we ALL should get a piece of the rep pie .

[Buffettfan]

[[A school administrator once told me that they could not question whatever race the student chose to categorize themself. This is THE solution!!! Spread the word.]]

Great idea. If your last name is Italian you can pass as a Hispanic. Time to start checking the "Latino" box and dare somebody to prove otherwise.

[Clemenza]

I've been "other" for many years.

[art_rocks]

I have met a family who twins will win many bar bets in college. The family's twin are boy and a girl. The mother is a blond woman and the father is a dark skinned black. The daughter is a mix of the two parents with tan skin and light brown hair. The son is a blond, light skinned little boy. I have no doubt he will be questioned on his college applications if he checked black until dad shows up.

I had a nice talk with the mother and father since I had fraternal twin daughters who were in class with the couples older daughter.

[JamesP81]

A school administrator once told me that they could not question whatever race the student chose to categorize themself. This is THE solution!!! Spread the word.

I actually thought about doing this. You couldn't tell from looking at me, as I look like any other western Kentucky white guy, however, after tracing my ancestry I believe I have the minimum concentration of Creek indian ancestry to claim membership in the Creek nation if I wanted to. I could've gone to college for virtually free, but it somehow seemed dishonest to me.

[bk1000]

"A school administrator once told me that they could not question whatever race the student chose to categorize themself. This is THE solution!!! Spread the word."

When asked, I check the box marked 'Native American' because I was born here. It really gets their attention.