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Cornell graduate: 'White privilege' let me rebound from heroin arrest, earn degree
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| January 23, 2015
| Ben Axelson
Posted on 01/23/2015 9:08:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Apparently, after release, she switched from heroin to crack.
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posted on
01/23/2015 9:12:47 PM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey, whatever it takes
Down here, all the high schoolers openly say that unless you’re Hispanic ‘Latino non white’ you can forget easy admission and scholarships
They know
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posted on
01/23/2015 9:14:12 PM PST
by
stanne
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Most people in prison have been arrested many times, some in the dozens. Unless you commit a violent crime odds are you will be out in a couple of years.
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posted on
01/23/2015 9:14:32 PM PST
by
LukeL
To: stanne
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posted on
01/23/2015 9:15:46 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oy
Well we do have a plan, being naturally averse to victimhood
A good plan
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posted on
01/23/2015 9:17:12 PM PST
by
stanne
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think Ithaca NY exists in some kind of parallel universe where it’s always 1968.
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posted on
01/23/2015 9:17:58 PM PST
by
Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
All she had to do is slap a guard and she could stay as long as she wanted.
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posted on
01/23/2015 9:17:58 PM PST
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: Impy
Didn’t Keith Olbermann matriculate there?
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posted on
01/23/2015 9:18:44 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
She could have petitioned for the judge for a harsh sentence, if she were really down for the struggle.
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posted on
01/23/2015 9:19:42 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
There is a great deal of data that show that whites receive shooter sentences for drug crimes than blacks.
Could be race or just about who can hire a better lawyer.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“The university allowed her to finish her remaining two classes, but it was only after dozens of letters of support and reference from friends, family, community leaders and her editors at The Ithaca Times that the university decided to lift her lifetime ban from the campus.”
No, no, no! These endorsements mean NOTHING, it’s just that she’s white.
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posted on
01/23/2015 9:24:59 PM PST
by
DBrow
To: Oliviaforever
Or there wasn’t violence involved?
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posted on
01/23/2015 9:25:24 PM PST
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2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: Impy; windcliff; stylecouncilor
Peace and Love, Bro. Which way to The Johnny Winter concert?
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posted on
01/23/2015 9:33:54 PM PST
by
onedoug
To: 2ndDivisionVet
what is her point? white privilege or
"...that she wasn't just welcomed back to Cornell, no questions asked. The university allowed her to finish her remaining two classes, but it was only after dozens of letters of support and reference from friends, family, community leaders and her editors at The Ithaca Times that the university decided to lift her lifetime ban from the campus.Letters I'm sure she put a lot of time and effort into securing. That is, she worked for re-admission - which has jack to do with 'white privilege' and everything to do with motivation and goals. Unfortunately, Cornell couldn't teach her the difference.
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posted on
01/23/2015 9:35:09 PM PST
by
blueplum
To: 2ndDivisionVet
When found guilty of a drug crime, white people receive shorter sentences than black people. If a black woman, also a senior in college, and I assume also with no prior arrests, had her first drug conviction... I would bet she would have only gotten probation.
To: Impy
"Keri Blakinger was arrested in December 2010 in possession of $50,000 worth of heroin."
On what planet does someone with 50K in heroin get released?
I guaran-damn-tee you I'd be looking at hard time.
I don't think it's "white privilege"
I think it's "daddy's money privilege"
And my dad ain't rich.
This hole-of-ass should keep her big yapper shut.
Not many "white people" get away with such crimes.
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posted on
01/23/2015 10:07:14 PM PST
by
boop
(I never use the words democrats and republicans. I use liberals and Americans.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
01/23/2015 10:14:34 PM PST
by
mylife
To: boop
I think it’s “daddy’s money privilege”
Exactly.
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posted on
01/23/2015 10:18:35 PM PST
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mylife
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Olberman matriculated there?
Gettin’ a little personal there, arn’cha? I really don’t want to know what he did there. (Although he probably masticated there too.)
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posted on
01/23/2015 10:19:20 PM PST
by
Bob
(Violence in islam? That's not a bug; it's a feature.)
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