SCOTUS upholds college Affirmative Action

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible decisision. This shows us how awful Scalias death( or maybe murder) was. It doesn't really matter though. You can admit URMs with lower grades and SATs who don't deserve admission all you want, and you can even give them top jobs. However, at the end of the day, they will be outperformed by those who are intellectually superior to them. It's sad that minorities want "equality", but then demand special prviliagrs. It actually says something pretty bad about URMs if they can't succeed without affirmative action.College admissions should be based solely on GPA, SAT, ECs, and recommendations. At least the SCOTUS got the important decision on illegal immigration right.

But imagine what would happen w/o AAction. There will be almost no blacks in top 200 colleges. Maybe SCOTUS thought URMs could use extra help.

Well now we won't have to find out, racist troll. Lol!

I doubt it will help much though. It hasn't in the past. So, nothing new here. At some point, you gotta get yourself going without mama holding your hand, bud.

It's helped my family quite a bit--and I consider it a small step towards compensating my family for the stolen labor of my ancestors. I can guarantee you that we have a higher HHI than you, and live in a nicer neighborhood (one of the best). Despite our excellent public schools, our children attend one of the best private schools in DC, with all the EC bells and whistles. Oh, my children will also attend better universities than your children. I'm also positive that AA didn't take the bar and pass it on the first try for me either.

One more thing: You cannot possibly make me feel bad about being the recipient of AA at some point or another in my life. I would feel bad about being the recipient of unearned white privilege (you, Fisher and the rest of your ilk) who cannot even get into UT-Austin (!) WITH legacy status (you know, the type of AA action whites like you like and defend). UT didn't even admit its first Black student until the mid-1950s. Fisher should feel embarrassed by her sheer mediocrity...to say nothing of her Peppermint Patty looks.

What an obx post. If you follow your logic, you owe your success to white slave traders more than your ancestors. Without the traders, you wouldn't be here today, right? Total BS logic, lady.

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible decisision. This shows us how awful Scalias death( or maybe murder) was. It doesn't really matter though. You can admit URMs with lower grades and SATs who don't deserve admission all you want, and you can even give them top jobs. However, at the end of the day, they will be outperformed by those who are intellectually superior to them. It's sad that minorities want "equality", but then demand special prviliagrs. It actually says something pretty bad about URMs if they can't succeed without affirmative action.College admissions should be based solely on GPA, SAT, ECs, and recommendations. At least the SCOTUS got the important decision on illegal immigration right.

But imagine what would happen w/o AAction. There will be almost no blacks in top 200 colleges. Maybe SCOTUS thought URMs could use extra help.

Well now we won't have to find out, racist troll. Lol!

I doubt it will help much though. It hasn't in the past. So, nothing new here. At some point, you gotta get yourself going without mama holding your hand, bud.

It's helped my family quite a bit--and I consider it a small step towards compensating my family for the stolen labor of my ancestors. I can guarantee you that we have a higher HHI than you, and live in a nicer neighborhood (one of the best). Despite our excellent public schools, our children attend one of the best private schools in DC, with all the EC bells and whistles. Oh, my children will also attend better universities than your children. I'm also positive that AA didn't take the bar and pass it on the first try for me either.

One more thing: You cannot possibly make me feel bad about being the recipient of AA at some point or another in my life. I would feel bad about being the recipient of unearned white privilege (you, Fisher and the rest of your ilk) who cannot even get into UT-Austin (!) WITH legacy status (you know, the type of AA action whites like you like and defend). UT didn't even admit its first Black student until the mid-1950s. Fisher should feel embarrassed by her sheer mediocrity...to say nothing of her Peppermint Patty looks.

You don't need to feel bad. Like lottery winners, enjoy what you got. Let me guess, you now live in a white predominant community and your kids go to schools predominantly white. That's what AA has achieved so far: help the already better off minorities achieve greater personal gains. change the black culture? no way! The winners can't wait to escape the black community. You can boast all you've achieved, but you can never prove you can achieve the same without AA, thus your college degree and your kids' will always be discounted by many.

You and many of the others posting here just don't get it. I do NOT care if white people (or anyone else) questions my success. I have nothing to prove to anyone--especially those who subscribe to the lie of white superiority. I'm beyond secure in my knowledge of what it took for me to accomplish what people with centuries of unearned white (and gender) privilege could not. It actually amuses me to see the startled look on people's faces when they slowly begin to realize that I'm better educated and wealthier than they are (I can see the wheels turning as they ask about where I live, my job, my schools, etc). Figuring out how I got what I have is their problem, not mine. Btw, I can afford to live anywhere I want, and I can easily afford my children's tuition. Does that bother you?

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible decisision. This shows us how awful Scalias death( or maybe murder) was. It doesn't really matter though. You can admit URMs with lower grades and SATs who don't deserve admission all you want, and you can even give them top jobs. However, at the end of the day, they will be outperformed by those who are intellectually superior to them. It's sad that minorities want "equality", but then demand special prviliagrs. It actually says something pretty bad about URMs if they can't succeed without affirmative action.College admissions should be based solely on GPA, SAT, ECs, and recommendations. At least the SCOTUS got the important decision on illegal immigration right.

But imagine what would happen w/o AAction. There will be almost no blacks in top 200 colleges. Maybe SCOTUS thought URMs could use extra help.

Well now we won't have to find out, racist troll. Lol!

I doubt it will help much though. It hasn't in the past. So, nothing new here. At some point, you gotta get yourself going without mama holding your hand, bud.

It's helped my family quite a bit--and I consider it a small step towards compensating my family for the stolen labor of my ancestors. I can guarantee you that we have a higher HHI than you, and live in a nicer neighborhood (one of the best). Despite our excellent public schools, our children attend one of the best private schools in DC, with all the EC bells and whistles. Oh, my children will also attend better universities than your children. I'm also positive that AA didn't take the bar and pass it on the first try for me either.

One more thing: You cannot possibly make me feel bad about being the recipient of AA at some point or another in my life. I would feel bad about being the recipient of unearned white privilege (you, Fisher and the rest of your ilk) who cannot even get into UT-Austin (!) WITH legacy status (you know, the type of AA action whites like you like and defend). UT didn't even admit its first Black student until the mid-1950s. Fisher should feel embarrassed by her sheer mediocrity...to say nothing of her Peppermint Patty looks.

What an obx post. If you follow your logic, you owe your success to white slave traders more than your ancestors. Without the traders, you wouldn't be here today, right? Total BS logic, lady.

Sorry you think that post was obnoxious. It wasn't. Yours was. Maybe I wouldn't be here either, but I am. You brought me here so stop discriminating against me.

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible decisision. This shows us how awful Scalias death( or maybe murder) was. It doesn't really matter though. You can admit URMs with lower grades and SATs who don't deserve admission all you want, and you can even give them top jobs. However, at the end of the day, they will be outperformed by those who are intellectually superior to them. It's sad that minorities want "equality", but then demand special prviliagrs. It actually says something pretty bad about URMs if they can't succeed without affirmative action.College admissions should be based solely on GPA, SAT, ECs, and recommendations. At least the SCOTUS got the important decision on illegal immigration right.

But imagine what would happen w/o AAction. There will be almost no blacks in top 200 colleges. Maybe SCOTUS thought URMs could use extra help.

Well now we won't have to find out, racist troll. Lol!

I doubt it will help much though. It hasn't in the past. So, nothing new here. At some point, you gotta get yourself going without mama holding your hand, bud.

It's helped my family quite a bit--and I consider it a small step towards compensating my family for the stolen labor of my ancestors. I can guarantee you that we have a higher HHI than you, and live in a nicer neighborhood (one of the best). Despite our excellent public schools, our children attend one of the best private schools in DC, with all the EC bells and whistles. Oh, my children will also attend better universities than your children. I'm also positive that AA didn't take the bar and pass it on the first try for me either.

One more thing: You cannot possibly make me feel bad about being the recipient of AA at some point or another in my life. I would feel bad about being the recipient of unearned white privilege (you, Fisher and the rest of your ilk) who cannot even get into UT-Austin (!) WITH legacy status (you know, the type of AA action whites like you like and defend). UT didn't even admit its first Black student until the mid-1950s. Fisher should feel embarrassed by her sheer mediocrity...to say nothing of her Peppermint Patty looks.

You don't need to feel bad. Like lottery winners, enjoy what you got. Let me guess, you now live in a white predominant community and your kids go to schools predominantly white. That's what AA has achieved so far: help the already better off minorities achieve greater personal gains. change the black culture? no way! The winners can't wait to escape the black community. You can boast all you've achieved, but you can never prove you can achieve the same without AA, thus your college degree and your kids' will always be discounted by many.

Another PP here. Let me just inform a lot of you who like to throw the bolded part around. Well, maybe I will just ask - why should I give a darn about what you think about my success or whether you "discount" my achievements? If I am sitting next to you in the boardroom making the same money you are and my kids are sitting next to yours in lecture halls at Elite U, I do not give a rat's ass whether you or anyone else is "discounting" my achievements. That's your weakness and I will not make it mine. Sorry. If you are worried about HOW I got here, I am already a step ahead. BLL still had to produce to become a partner - why does it matter how she got her foot in the door? Do you think her partners think about that if she is bringing in clients and revenue? I am a SVP in sales and the division I supervise has led the company in production 4 years in a row. Do you think my CEO cares about how I got an opportunity as a college freshman if I am bringing in millions annually now. So even if we did benefit from AffAc, we certainly had to bring something to the table to get this far. We had to produce dealing with folks like you who would "discount" someone with the same (or more) achievements than you.

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible decisision. This shows us how awful Scalias death( or maybe murder) was. It doesn't really matter though. You can admit URMs with lower grades and SATs who don't deserve admission all you want, and you can even give them top jobs. However, at the end of the day, they will be outperformed by those who are intellectually superior to them. It's sad that minorities want "equality", but then demand special prviliagrs. It actually says something pretty bad about URMs if they can't succeed without affirmative action.College admissions should be based solely on GPA, SAT, ECs, and recommendations. At least the SCOTUS got the important decision on illegal immigration right.

But imagine what would happen w/o AAction. There will be almost no blacks in top 200 colleges. Maybe SCOTUS thought URMs could use extra help.

Well now we won't have to find out, racist troll. Lol!

I doubt it will help much though. It hasn't in the past. So, nothing new here. At some point, you gotta get yourself going without mama holding your hand, bud.

It's helped my family quite a bit--and I consider it a small step towards compensating my family for the stolen labor of my ancestors. I can guarantee you that we have a higher HHI than you, and live in a nicer neighborhood (one of the best). Despite our excellent public schools, our children attend one of the best private schools in DC, with all the EC bells and whistles. Oh, my children will also attend better universities than your children. I'm also positive that AA didn't take the bar and pass it on the first try for me either.

One more thing: You cannot possibly make me feel bad about being the recipient of AA at some point or another in my life. I would feel bad about being the recipient of unearned white privilege (you, Fisher and the rest of your ilk) who cannot even get into UT-Austin (!) WITH legacy status (you know, the type of AA action whites like you like and defend). UT didn't even admit its first Black student until the mid-1950s. Fisher should feel embarrassed by her sheer mediocrity...to say nothing of her Peppermint Patty looks.

You don't need to feel bad. Like lottery winners, enjoy what you got. Let me guess, you now live in a white predominant community and your kids go to schools predominantly white. That's what AA has achieved so far: help the already better off minorities achieve greater personal gains. change the black culture? no way! The winners can't wait to escape the black community. You can boast all you've achieved, but you can never prove you can achieve the same without AA, thus your college degree and your kids' will always be discounted by many.

I am not the PP, but I know I benefited from AA. Still, I graduated top of my law school class even though my LSAT scores were not high. BTW, I still live in DC and my kids go to DCPS. No, I don't want to live in a predominately white neighborhood. That is not my nirvana, nor do I need that validation.

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible decisision. This shows us how awful Scalias death( or maybe murder) was. It doesn't really matter though. You can admit URMs with lower grades and SATs who don't deserve admission all you want, and you can even give them top jobs. However, at the end of the day, they will be outperformed by those who are intellectually superior to them. It's sad that minorities want "equality", but then demand special prviliagrs. It actually says something pretty bad about URMs if they can't succeed without affirmative action.College admissions should be based solely on GPA, SAT, ECs, and recommendations. At least the SCOTUS got the important decision on illegal immigration right.

But imagine what would happen w/o AAction. There will be almost no blacks in top 200 colleges. Maybe SCOTUS thought URMs could use extra help.

Well now we won't have to find out, racist troll. Lol!

I doubt it will help much though. It hasn't in the past. So, nothing new here. At some point, you gotta get yourself going without mama holding your hand, bud.

It's helped my family quite a bit--and I consider it a small step towards compensating my family for the stolen labor of my ancestors. I can guarantee you that we have a higher HHI than you, and live in a nicer neighborhood (one of the best). Despite our excellent public schools, our children attend one of the best private schools in DC, with all the EC bells and whistles. Oh, my children will also attend better universities than your children. I'm also positive that AA didn't take the bar and pass it on the first try for me either.

One more thing: You cannot possibly make me feel bad about being the recipient of AA at some point or another in my life. I would feel bad about being the recipient of unearned white privilege (you, Fisher and the rest of your ilk) who cannot even get into UT-Austin (!) WITH legacy status (you know, the type of AA action whites like you like and defend). UT didn't even admit its first Black student until the mid-1950s. Fisher should feel embarrassed by her sheer mediocrity...to say nothing of her Peppermint Patty looks.

You don't need to feel bad. Like lottery winners, enjoy what you got. Let me guess, you now live in a white predominant community and your kids go to schools predominantly white. That's what AA has achieved so far: help the already better off minorities achieve greater personal gains. change the black culture? no way! The winners can't wait to escape the black community. You can boast all you've achieved, but you can never prove you can achieve the same without AA, thus your college degree and your kids' will always be discounted by many.

I am not the PP, but I know I benefited from AA. Still, I graduated top of my law school class even though my LSAT scores were not high. BTW, I still live in DC and my kids go to DCPS. No, I don't want to live in a predominately white neighborhood. That is not my nirvana, nor do I need that validation.

Oh, I can guarantee NO ONE questions my 3 degrees.

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible decisision. This shows us how awful Scalias death( or maybe murder) was. It doesn't really matter though. You can admit URMs with lower grades and SATs who don't deserve admission all you want, and you can even give them top jobs. However, at the end of the day, they will be outperformed by those who are intellectually superior to them. It's sad that minorities want "equality", but then demand special prviliagrs. It actually says something pretty bad about URMs if they can't succeed without affirmative action.College admissions should be based solely on GPA, SAT, ECs, and recommendations. At least the SCOTUS got the important decision on illegal immigration right.

But imagine what would happen w/o AAction. There will be almost no blacks in top 200 colleges. Maybe SCOTUS thought URMs could use extra help.

Well now we won't have to find out, racist troll. Lol!

I doubt it will help much though. It hasn't in the past. So, nothing new here. At some point, you gotta get yourself going without mama holding your hand, bud.

It's helped my family quite a bit--and I consider it a small step towards compensating my family for the stolen labor of my ancestors. I can guarantee you that we have a higher HHI than you, and live in a nicer neighborhood (one of the best). Despite our excellent public schools, our children attend one of the best private schools in DC, with all the EC bells and whistles. Oh, my children will also attend better universities than your children. I'm also positive that AA didn't take the bar and pass it on the first try for me either.

One more thing: You cannot possibly make me feel bad about being the recipient of AA at some point or another in my life. I would feel bad about being the recipient of unearned white privilege (you, Fisher and the rest of your ilk) who cannot even get into UT-Austin (!) WITH legacy status (you know, the type of AA action whites like you like and defend). UT didn't even admit its first Black student until the mid-1950s. Fisher should feel embarrassed by her sheer mediocrity...to say nothing of her Peppermint Patty looks.

You don't need to feel bad. Like lottery winners, enjoy what you got. Let me guess, you now live in a white predominant community and your kids go to schools predominantly white. That's what AA has achieved so far: help the already better off minorities achieve greater personal gains. change the black culture? no way! The winners can't wait to escape the black community. You can boast all you've achieved, but you can never prove you can achieve the same without AA, thus your college degree and your kids' will always be discounted by many.

You and many of the others posting here just don't get it. I do NOT care if white people (or anyone else) questions my success. I have nothing to prove to anyone--especially those who subscribe to the lie of white superiority. I'm beyond secure in my knowledge of what it took for me to accomplish what people with centuries of unearned white (and gender) privilege could not. It actually amuses me to see the startled look on people's faces when they slowly begin to realize that I'm better educated and wealthier than they are (I can see the wheels turning as they ask about where I live, my job, my schools, etc). Figuring out how I got what I have is their problem, not mine. Btw, I can afford to live anywhere I want, and I can easily afford my children's tuition. Does that bother you?

LOL, that was some defensiveness. It's quite amusing to see your description of other people's reaction to your personal success. No, they are not startling, your think they are startling. The self consciousness about your race is hard to shake off, eh?

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible decisision. This shows us how awful Scalias death( or maybe murder) was. It doesn't really matter though. You can admit URMs with lower grades and SATs who don't deserve admission all you want, and you can even give them top jobs. However, at the end of the day, they will be outperformed by those who are intellectually superior to them. It's sad that minorities want "equality", but then demand special prviliagrs. It actually says something pretty bad about URMs if they can't succeed without affirmative action.College admissions should be based solely on GPA, SAT, ECs, and recommendations. At least the SCOTUS got the important decision on illegal immigration right.

But imagine what would happen w/o AAction. There will be almost no blacks in top 200 colleges. Maybe SCOTUS thought URMs could use extra help.

Well now we won't have to find out, racist troll. Lol!

I doubt it will help much though. It hasn't in the past. So, nothing new here. At some point, you gotta get yourself going without mama holding your hand, bud.

It's helped my family quite a bit--and I consider it a small step towards compensating my family for the stolen labor of my ancestors. I can guarantee you that we have a higher HHI than you, and live in a nicer neighborhood (one of the best). Despite our excellent public schools, our children attend one of the best private schools in DC, with all the EC bells and whistles. Oh, my children will also attend better universities than your children. I'm also positive that AA didn't take the bar and pass it on the first try for me either.

One more thing: You cannot possibly make me feel bad about being the recipient of AA at some point or another in my life. I would feel bad about being the recipient of unearned white privilege (you, Fisher and the rest of your ilk) who cannot even get into UT-Austin (!) WITH legacy status (you know, the type of AA action whites like you like and defend). UT didn't even admit its first Black student until the mid-1950s. Fisher should feel embarrassed by her sheer mediocrity...to say nothing of her Peppermint Patty looks.

You don't need to feel bad. Like lottery winners, enjoy what you got. Let me guess, you now live in a white predominant community and your kids go to schools predominantly white. That's what AA has achieved so far: help the already better off minorities achieve greater personal gains. change the black culture? no way! The winners can't wait to escape the black community. You can boast all you've achieved, but you can never prove you can achieve the same without AA, thus your college degree and your kids' will always be discounted by many.

Another PP here. Let me just inform a lot of you who like to throw the bolded part around. Well, maybe I will just ask - why should I give a darn about what you think about my success or whether you "discount" my achievements? If I am sitting next to you in the boardroom making the same money you are and my kids are sitting next to yours in lecture halls at Elite U, I do not give a rat's ass whether you or anyone else is "discounting" my achievements. That's your weakness and I will not make it mine. Sorry. If you are worried about HOW I got here, I am already a step ahead. BLL still had to produce to become a partner - why does it matter how she got her foot in the door? Do you think her partners think about that if she is bringing in clients and revenue? I am a SVP in sales and the division I supervise has led the company in production 4 years in a row. Do you think my CEO cares about how I got an opportunity as a college freshman if I am bringing in millions annually now. So even if we did benefit from AffAc, we certainly had to bring something to the table to get this far. We had to produce dealing with folks like you who would "discount" someone with the same (or more) achievements than you.

I hear you.! you truly deserve where are you now! But given your solid education background, I assume you can understand the difference between individual samples and statistics. Or maybe you truly believe that African Americans are generally smarter and more capable even with poor academic performances and lower admission criteria.

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Anonymous wrote:Terrible decisision. This shows us how awful Scalias death( or maybe murder) was. It doesn't really matter though. You can admit URMs with lower grades and SATs who don't deserve admission all you want, and you can even give them top jobs. However, at the end of the day, they will be outperformed by those who are intellectually superior to them. It's sad that minorities want "equality", but then demand special prviliagrs. It actually says something pretty bad about URMs if they can't succeed without affirmative action.College admissions should be based solely on GPA, SAT, ECs, and recommendations. At least the SCOTUS got the important decision on illegal immigration right.

But imagine what would happen w/o AAction. There will be almost no blacks in top 200 colleges. Maybe SCOTUS thought URMs could use extra help.

Well now we won't have to find out, racist troll. Lol!

I doubt it will help much though. It hasn't in the past. So, nothing new here. At some point, you gotta get yourself going without mama holding your hand, bud.

It's helped my family quite a bit--and I consider it a small step towards compensating my family for the stolen labor of my ancestors. I can guarantee you that we have a higher HHI than you, and live in a nicer neighborhood (one of the best). Despite our excellent public schools, our children attend one of the best private schools in DC, with all the EC bells and whistles. Oh, my children will also attend better universities than your children. I'm also positive that AA didn't take the bar and pass it on the first try for me either.

One more thing: You cannot possibly make me feel bad about being the recipient of AA at some point or another in my life. I would feel bad about being the recipient of unearned white privilege (you, Fisher and the rest of your ilk) who cannot even get into UT-Austin (!) WITH legacy status (you know, the type of AA action whites like you like and defend). UT didn't even admit its first Black student until the mid-1950s. Fisher should feel embarrassed by her sheer mediocrity...to say nothing of her Peppermint Patty looks.

You don't need to feel bad. Like lottery winners, enjoy what you got. Let me guess, you now live in a white predominant community and your kids go to schools predominantly white. That's what AA has achieved so far: help the already better off minorities achieve greater personal gains. change the black culture? no way! The winners can't wait to escape the black community. You can boast all you've achieved, but you can never prove you can achieve the same without AA, thus your college degree and your kids' will always be discounted by many.

You and many of the others posting here just don't get it. I do NOT care if white people (or anyone else) questions my success. I have nothing to prove to anyone--especially those who subscribe to the lie of white superiority. I'm beyond secure in my knowledge of what it took for me to accomplish what people with centuries of unearned white (and gender) privilege could not. It actually amuses me to see the startled look on people's faces when they slowly begin to realize that I'm better educated and wealthier than they are (I can see the wheels turning as they ask about where I live, my job, my schools, etc). Figuring out how I got what I have is their problem, not mine. Btw, I can afford to live anywhere I want, and I can easily afford my children's tuition. Does that bother you?

LOL, that was some defensiveness. It's quite amusing to see your description of other people's reaction to your personal success. No, they are not startling, your think they are startling. The self consciousness about your race is hard to shake off, eh?

Are you a Black woman who earned two Ivy League degrees? Are you also a partner in a major law firm? If not, don't attempt to substitute your baseless opinion for my reality. White people are often startled to learn about my accomplishments when they question me in the stereotypical DC way. They are startled, and I am amused. I am also very amused by this thread.

Btw, you assume that I want to be less conscious about my race. Race, class and gender, among many things, inform who I am. Don't assume to know what motivates me.

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Are you a Black woman who earned two Ivy League degrees? Are you also a partner in a major law firm? If not, don't attempt to substitute your baseless opinion for my reality. White people are often startled to learn about my accomplishments when they question me in the stereotypical DC way. They are startled, and I am amused. I am also very amused by this thread.

Btw, you assume that I want to be less conscious about my race. Race, class and gender, among many things, inform who I am. Don't assume to know what motivates me.

allegedly.

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Are you a Black woman who earned two Ivy League degrees? Are you also a partner in a major law firm? If not, don't attempt to substitute your baseless opinion for my reality. White people are often startled to learn about my accomplishments when they question me in the stereotypical DC way. They are startled, and I am amused. I am also very amused by this thread.

Btw, you assume that I want to be less conscious about my race. Race, class and gender, among many things, inform who I am. Don't assume to know what motivates me.

allegedly.

Whatever makes you feel better about your life, dear.

[Anonymous]

Question for the anti-AA posters: Do you have the same disdain for college admission criteria that benefit predominantly non-minority students, like legacies? Probably not, as it is a benefit that either you or someone in your family has/will take advantage of. I understand, bash AA because it does not benefit you. But honestly have you ever looked down on someone's achievements because they are a legacy?

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Anonymous wrote:Question for the anti-AA posters: Do you have the same disdain for college admission criteria that benefit predominantly non-minority students, like legacies? Probably not, as it is a benefit that either you or someone in your family has/will take advantage of. I understand, bash AA because it does not benefit you. But honestly have you ever looked down on someone's achievements because they are a legacy?

Legacies are little different. Many of the parents (alum) give back to school which is an important aspect of college business model. So, personally, while I am not crazy about it, I can certainly understand it.

I don't think most people have issues with the overall concept of Affirmative Actions. The fact it's squarely designed for POC is what bothers me. I think it should be SES-based? Poor kids of all colors get the same benefits.

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Anonymous wrote:Question for the anti-AA posters: Do you have the same disdain for college admission criteria that benefit predominantly non-minority students, like legacies? Probably not, as it is a benefit that either you or someone in your family has/will take advantage of. I understand, bash AA because it does not benefit you. But honestly have you ever looked down on someone's achievements because they are a legacy?

Legacies are little different. Many of the parents (alum) give back to school which is an important aspect of college business model. So, personally, while I am not crazy about it, I can certainly understand it.

I don't think most people have issues with the overall concept of Affirmative Actions. The fact it's squarely designed for POC is what bothers me. I think it should be SES-based? Poor kids of all colors get the same benefits.

Affirmative Action is squarely designed for those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education. Why does this bother you?