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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the last time.  You solve this entire issue by abolishing Affirmative Action.  Until you do that you will have people assuming URM (blacks/hispanics) being in certain places due to affirmative action.

Personal experience when I got my MBA top 5 program  About half of the AA and Hispanics actually belonged there.  The other half clearly didn't.  This was also true for the international students.  They wern't dumb but they were clearly a cut below the rest of my other classmates which again included many really great AA, Hispanics, and International students but not all[/quote]

But why should URM care about how you think they got there?

I am not saying that you are doing this, but the extreme version of this type of thinking is typical of the mind games that many Whites play with the young AA’s. Folks want them to feel bad about the opportunities they have. They end up questioning whether they deserve certain things or whether they belong certain places.  Problem is that a lot of these young people don’t have adequate support to counteract these messages. Some of them come from places where they already feel less advantaged when they hit campus. Many of them are first generation college students so they do not have knowledgeable support at home.  They end up feeling like they do not belong – too embarrassed to ask for help and use the resources that are available to them. When I talk to some of these youngsters that I know who had difficulty, they talk about not “fitting in.” Then you have parents like me who tell our kids to ignore that shit.  If you ARE THERE, you belong there!  Mold the experience to fit and benefit you! If someone wants to whine about how they think you got there, let them.  It means that they feel threatened and they fear you enough to try to test your resolve. They ARE going to try to knock you off path and they are competing with you.   My parents told me (and I tell my own kids) to be committed to my own success.  Matters not how you start but how you finish.  Be a finisher. If you get good grades or you prove your value to your employer, the people that matter could not care less how you got there – only that you ARE there. 
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