College that won't inundate my kids with white guilt?

[Anonymous]

I think OP's been long gone...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has got to be one of the most inane posts on this website--and there's some pretty good competition.

It needs to be deleted or moved to the political forum. It has no place here. The OP has something else in mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My family worked in manual jobs after they came to this country, well after the Emancipation Proclamation. They didn't own slaves and didn't profit from slavery. Some of them felt discrimination in hiring as late as the 1950s (against Catholics in public employment). They don't have white guilt, nor do I. My advice to others is:

It's been 150 years since the abolition of slavery, and 50 years since the Civil Rights Act and other landmark legislation. In recent decades, we've had immigrants literally washing up on US shores with just the clothes on their backs and then buckling down and making something of their lives. They don't blame others for their many troubles. Study hard. Lose the attitude. Obey the laws. Patronize the businesses of those who risk all to invest in your community, don't burn them. Stop using "discrimination" as an excuse for everything wrong in your life. Focus on what you can contribute, not what is "owed" to you.

Yea, thanks for telling us what is wrong with AA's? How many do you actually know? Do you have an answer to the OP's question or are you just soapboxing?

You know it is a frightening thing that while more AA's are in college than anytime in this country's history, people still stick to this notion that AA's are just standng there with their hands out talking about White guilt. We ARE educating ourselves and that is why you get the whole Affirmative Action criticism. AA's don't go to college and we get posts like this "you are not doing anything to better yourselves." We go to college and it is "you don't derserve to be there, Affirmative Action got you in." Whites now play the victim role as much as any other minority. Maybe that means progress is bening made.

TBH, when I was in college the focus was not on White guilt, it was on White MALE guilt and most of the people at the rallies critcizing the White men were White women. But y'all go ahead and believe what you want.

Affirmative Action is a double edged sword - it may get more AA to colleges (which I am sure everyone supports) but people will always have doubts. It's like having a footnote on your resume. I can't imagine anything more frustrating if you are a truly high performing AA. But I don't think you can have both ways.

Yes, but you must do the same work once you get in. There is no AA in grading, especially when the blind-grade system is used. That's what the doubters fail to comprehend. Oh, you should say some people will have doubts, or are you speaking for everyone and not just yourself?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My family worked in manual jobs after they came to this country, well after the Emancipation Proclamation. They didn't own slaves and didn't profit from slavery. Some of them felt discrimination in hiring as late as the 1950s (against Catholics in public employment). They don't have white guilt, nor do I. My advice to others is:

It's been 150 years since the abolition of slavery, and 50 years since the Civil Rights Act and other landmark legislation. In recent decades, we've had immigrants literally washing up on US shores with just the clothes on their backs and then buckling down and making something of their lives. They don't blame others for their many troubles. Study hard. Lose the attitude. Obey the laws. Patronize the businesses of those who risk all to invest in your community, don't burn them. Stop using "discrimination" as an excuse for everything wrong in your life. Focus on what you can contribute, not what is "owed" to you.

Yea, thanks for telling us what is wrong with AA's? How many do you actually know? Do you have an answer to the OP's question or are you just soapboxing?

You know it is a frightening thing that while more AA's are in college than anytime in this country's history, people still stick to this notion that AA's are just standng there with their hands out talking about White guilt. We ARE educating ourselves and that is why you get the whole Affirmative Action criticism. AA's don't go to college and we get posts like this "you are not doing anything to better yourselves." We go to college and it is "you don't derserve to be there, Affirmative Action got you in." Whites now play the victim role as much as any other minority. Maybe that means progress is bening made.

TBH, when I was in college the focus was not on White guilt, it was on White MALE guilt and most of the people at the rallies critcizing the White men were White women. But y'all go ahead and believe what you want.

Affirmative Action is a double edged sword - it may get more AA to colleges (which I am sure everyone supports) but people will always have doubts. It's like having a footnote on your resume. I can't imagine anything more frustrating if you are a truly high performing AA. But I don't think you can have both ways.

I am the PP here. I can only speak for myself and the other high performing AA's that I know. We do not give a flying fig about someone's doubts about how we got where we are. We are here and, in our minds, that is all that matters. If a person wants to believe that I have achieved my station in life because of Affirmative Action, that is on them. IMO, that this that person's way to justify their own inadequacies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My family worked in manual jobs after they came to this country, well after the Emancipation Proclamation. They didn't own slaves and didn't profit from slavery. Some of them felt discrimination in hiring as late as the 1950s (against Catholics in public employment). They don't have white guilt, nor do I. My advice to others is:

It's been 150 years since the abolition of slavery, and 50 years since the Civil Rights Act and other landmark legislation. In recent decades, we've had immigrants literally washing up on US shores with just the clothes on their backs and then buckling down and making something of their lives. They don't blame others for their many troubles. Study hard. Lose the attitude. Obey the laws. Patronize the businesses of those who risk all to invest in your community, don't burn them. Stop using "discrimination" as an excuse for everything wrong in your life. Focus on what you can contribute, not what is "owed" to you.

Yea, thanks for telling us what is wrong with AA's? How many do you actually know? Do you have an answer to the OP's question or are you just soapboxing?

You know it is a frightening thing that while more AA's are in college than anytime in this country's history, people still stick to this notion that AA's are just standng there with their hands out talking about White guilt. We ARE educating ourselves and that is why you get the whole Affirmative Action criticism. AA's don't go to college and we get posts like this "you are not doing anything to better yourselves." We go to college and it is "you don't derserve to be there, Affirmative Action got you in." Whites now play the victim role as much as any other minority. Maybe that means progress is bening made.

TBH, when I was in college the focus was not on White guilt, it was on White MALE guilt and most of the people at the rallies critcizing the White men were White women. But y'all go ahead and believe what you want.

Affirmative Action is a double edged sword - it may get more AA to colleges (which I am sure everyone supports) but people will always have doubts. It's like having a footnote on your resume. I can't imagine anything more frustrating if you are a truly high performing AA. But I don't think you can have both ways.

I am the PP here. I can only speak for myself and the other high performing AA's that I know. We do not give a flying fig about someone's doubts about how we got where we are. We are here and, in our minds, that is all that matters. If a person wants to believe that I have achieved my station in life because of Affirmative Action, that is on them. IMO, that this that person's way to justify their own inadequacies.

+1. Thank you for speaking the truth and telling it like it is! We owe no one ANY apology or explanation when we have worked our behinds off for our accomplishments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Affirmative Action is a double edged sword - it may get more AA to colleges (which I am sure everyone supports) but people will always have doubts. It's like having a footnote on your resume. I can't imagine anything more frustrating if you are a truly high performing AA. But I don't think you can have both ways.

Thanks for your concern about how we high performing AAs are dealing with the negative backlash of affirmative action. Thank you, thank you benevolent white person.

Sure, no problem. Glad I was able to help you.

I can thank you in person the next time you come over to shine the Mercedes.

[Anonymous]

OP -- try anywhere in the south they have no Democratic senators left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You won't find it at the Ivies or the other top 10s. Something to think about.

Which is ironic given that most of the Ivies discriminate against Asians.

Enough about the Asian discrimination please. Ivies have become unbelievably hard to get into. Period. Welcome to Global Competition.

[Anonymous]

OP here.

Some of you PP are nuts! I am NOT a conservative, nor am I looking for a conservative school. I'm from the NE, like I said, not Christian, so not sure why you think I'm in the
kkk.

Didn't post anything on the political forum. I just object to the tribal nature of current American politics.

The whole white guilt thing is ridiculous IMHO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My family worked in manual jobs after they came to this country, well after the Emancipation Proclamation. They didn't own slaves and didn't profit from slavery. Some of them felt discrimination in hiring as late as the 1950s (against Catholics in public employment). They don't have white guilt, nor do I. My advice to others is:

It's been 150 years since the abolition of slavery, and 50 years since the Civil Rights Act and other landmark legislation. In recent decades, we've had immigrants literally washing up on US shores with just the clothes on their backs and then buckling down and making something of their lives. They don't blame others for their many troubles. Study hard. Lose the attitude. Obey the laws. Patronize the businesses of those who risk all to invest in your community, don't burn them. Stop using "discrimination" as an excuse for everything wrong in your life. Focus on what you can contribute, not what is "owed" to you.

Yea, thanks for telling us what is wrong with AA's? How many do you actually know? Do you have an answer to the OP's question or are you just soapboxing?

You know it is a frightening thing that while more AA's are in college than anytime in this country's history, people still stick to this notion that AA's are just standng there with their hands out talking about White guilt. We ARE educating ourselves and that is why you get the whole Affirmative Action criticism. AA's don't go to college and we get posts like this "you are not doing anything to better yourselves." We go to college and it is "you don't derserve to be there, Affirmative Action got you in." Whites now play the victim role as much as any other minority. Maybe that means progress is bening made.

TBH, when I was in college the focus was not on White guilt, it was on White MALE guilt and most of the people at the rallies critcizing the White men were White women. But y'all go ahead and believe what you want.

Affirmative Action is a double edged sword - it may get more AA to colleges (which I am sure everyone supports) but people will always have doubts. It's like having a footnote on your resume. I can't imagine anything more frustrating if you are a truly high performing AA. But I don't think you can have both ways.

Interesting -- Justice Thomas may have raised similar concerns.

[Anonymous]

Kentucky Upstairs Medical College

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You won't find it at the Ivies or the other top 10s. Something to think about.

Which is ironic given that most of the Ivies discriminate against Asians.

Enough about the Asian discrimination please. Ivies have become unbelievably hard to get into. Period. Welcome to Global Competition.

Let's be honest though. That has nothing to do with global competition. I don't believe in 100% all Asian Ivies but I think it's fair to say Ivies DO discriminate against Asians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Affirmative Action is a double edged sword - it may get more AA to colleges (which I am sure everyone supports) but people will always have doubts. It's like having a footnote on your resume. I can't imagine anything more frustrating if you are a truly high performing AA. But I don't think you can have both ways.

Thanks for your concern about how we high performing AAs are dealing with the negative backlash of affirmative action. Thank you, thank you benevolent white person.

Sure, no problem. Glad I was able to help you.

I can thank you in person the next time you come over to shine the Mercedes.



Violence doesn't solve anything. You should know that.

[Anonymous]

We are told that we should never assume that AAs got where they are via affirmative action, but a lot of people have no problem assuminv that any given white person got where they are because of White Privilege.

"You didn't build that business. Someone else built that for you..."

[Anonymous]

^ ? I don't follow you @18:01.