And yet with this golden ticket we are still not seeing an over representation of black students in law school. |
I wonder about this in my own life. My grandmother was from Syria. I am 1/4 middle eastern and my kids are 1/8 which isn’t much. But we still speak the language and make the food and practice the culture. They are still in elementary school but I do write middle eastern/MENA on forms in doctors offices (this is mostly bc I have a syndrome that affects ppl of Middle eastern descent, which I was not diagnosed with until I mentioned this heritage in passing to my Dr). I’m not sure if I would put it on their college applications but it does sometimes burn my balls to see people with absolutely no cultural connection getting a leg up. My lifelong best friend and I did not know until she put it on her college application…she told me she’d never been open about it bc she was embarrassed. |
My lifelong best friend *was Hispanic |
Do mena kids get aa? Honest question Also Are you alawite? Imagine bashar al Assad getting AA ![]() |
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You sound like a nativist bigot. Latinos have actually struggled for centuries here, you know the US stole their lands in many states? And their language has been forbidden for decades in states like CA? If blacks and Native Americans get AA, Latinos deserve it too. |
So you totally buy into the notion that all differences are due to racism? I don’t. |
The United States did not steal land from Hispanics. Learn history. |
That's incorrect...sorry. |
All of the stolen land was technically Native American lands. If Latinos were occupying those lands it's because they stole it from the Natives. Assuming we choose to humor you.. what about the Chinese who were indentured to work the railroads and suffered periodic pogroms when the Whites got jealous of their success? What about the Japanese whose homes and assets were stolen from them and made to live in internment camps? What about their descendants? What about Indians who were not allowed to become citizens nor own land in the US in the early part of the last century? See how the slop gets slippery? Where does this stop? BTW, none of the Asians are asking for any sh*t like this because they are successful despite these hurdles thanks to their mindset. Something sorely lacking with people asking for handouts. |
And whose problem is that? |
On the one hand, we are told that race is a fiction. On the other, it's possible to lie about race. Which is it? How about we just stop asking for it and tracking it? Here's another doozy: you are now called a bigot if you disagree with the catechism that "trans women are women," and, by association, that gender is a fiction. So, my daughter could put "male" down for gender, and that would be fine. But, she can't put "black" down for race, because that would be racist, even though in the first case, she has no Y chromosome, and in the second, race is some subjective category that has to do with melanin content. I'm not trying to be glib; but seriously, this is all totally absurd. |
Really? What discrimination or hardships have Latinos faced that is any different from what Jews, Irish, Italians, and Poles faced when they came to this country? In fact, those groups probably had it worse. They couldn’t “oprima numero dos” to get everything translated into their language. Plus, Latino is not a race and not even really a cohesive ethnicity. And, for purposes of affirmative action, it encompasses some privileged people of European ancestry whose predecessors took a detour to South America before coming to the US. Total BS. |
Imagine how dismal k12 schools must be in all Dem-run districts "serving" black kids. |
It IS totally absurd, so the most logical thing is to play the dumb game. |