It is racist to notice this. Georgetown Law School punishes racist professors and students. https://www.city-journal.org/georgetown-law-school-dean-caves-to-social-justice-activists https://www.commentary.org/articles/timothy-maguire/my-bout-with-affirmative-action/
Exactly, all foreigners and their decendents deserve priority over Americans. Americans have it too easy.
Systematic racists have flunked all the students at 23 Baltimore schools. https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/23-baltimore-schools-have-zero-students-proficient-in-math-state-test-results-reveal-maryland-comprehensive-assessment-program-department-of-education-statistics-school-failures |
Nah you gotta be enslaved for centuries to get AA but if you want to put on the chains so you can deserve it too, go right ahead. |
Do you honestly believe the Obama kids were accepted because of AA? |
Blacks make up a far smaller proportion of "college ready" graduating Seniors each year, as measured (with a very low bar) on the ACT; Whites and Asians outpace their share of the population. So, elite schools will reflect this to some extent. |
Foreigners and their descendants? And exactly how are you not the descendent of a foreigner? |
Or, white and Asian kids spend more time and money on test prep, tutoring and taking the test multiple times. |
Good point. It's hard to find a non-HBCU with higher than 7% Black/AA students. Most are in the 5% range. (Currrent US Black population is about 13%) |
So? |
That's exactly right, but beyond people not lying much, that stat is also an indication that people have been drinking the racist KoolAid that somehow their precious students are losing spots to Black students. AA opened the door for everyone. People have no sense of history. Pretty much nobody, including Jews, were admitted to major universities at pace with their percentage before affirmative action. Blacks have largely Not been the greatest beneficiaries of that policy. You know who gets affirmative action. Men. If colleges were honest about qualifications and merit, the vast majority would be 75-80% female. |
It definitely happens. Back when I was applying to college in the early 2000s I had a good friend who had a set of grandparents who immigrated to Argentina from Europe during WWII and then moved to the US about 15 years later. My friend claimed on her college applications that she was Latino even though she knew her grandparents stint in Argentina hardly made her Latino. I think it may happen more with people who feel some tangential claim to a different race/ethnicity, like my friend. Look at Hilaria Baldwin. She speaks with a Spanish accent and she grew up in Boston and was educated at private schools in Massachusetts, all of her children have Spanish names, she pretended on television to forget the word cucumber and then said "how you say?" I mean... It's absurd, but it happens. |
+1. I would lump URM status, child or a donor, and legacy in the same group. You were born that way. Although I really think athletics are in different bucket because you need to work to be a good athlete like you need to work to be a good musician or a good artist or a good debater. It's talent, but also a lot of work. Dismantling AA is more likely to undercut legacy preference and then the only people who benefit are the children and grandchildren of large donors, so basically everyone loses. |
First Gen And Low Income or simply Low Income is the only affirmative action that makes sense to me.
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You are WRONG. The U.S. has an official definition for African-American (as it does for other races, and ethnicities). Your approach of "technically correct" is false. It is not up to people to make up their own definitions of African-American. It is like if someone who originated from India and is 1st generation American said they were "American Indian". |
Tell us again how Obama or Harris' ancestors were enslaved by centuries? It's more like their families were doing the enslaving. |
DP: this is very funny. First PP is absolutely correct, but you're attacking him for making things up by mentioning some non-sensical madeup definition observed by some in this country. |