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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hear ya!! Try telling that to a college admissions board.

It was very frustrating when the black kids (with same privileges and upbringing) were able to get into colleges with only a 3.0 grade pt average and average SATs while those of us with 4.0+ did not.
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I hope the point of this post was that these rules/a.action were designed to help the kids in the inner cities without $ and opportunity, but they don't.  Those kids still linger in the bad neighborhoods in bad public schools while the scholarships generally go to advantaged kids (of many ethnicities--not just AA).  Seeing kids in some of the most elite areas of society taking the advantages designed to help the downtrodden is I think what irks some.[/quote]
A boy in my sons HS class benefitted from numerous scholarships designed for AA students. He is a white kid born in South Africia. [b]He legitimately checked the AA box on the form. [/b][/quote]

Actually, he didn't. He is South African American, not African-American. [/quote]

Not the PP, but yes, this is legit. I have friends from Egypt who checked "African American" too. Maybe the box needs to be changed to black. Caucasian isn't an accurate description of white people either, so that's why "white" gets used more. [/quote]

No, it's not legit. African-Americans references blacks whose ancestors were brought to the Americas as a result of the slave trade. Because there is an inability to trace one's root to the country of origin, the term African-American is used as a catchall to honor our slave ancestors.

This designation DOES NOT apply to those who are born in Africa and come to the US, because they *know* their country of origin.

The box doesn't need to be changed; folks just need to do a simple Google search and learn what it means.

IME, all races get the benefit of having ethnicities EXCEPT for black people. It's very easy for folks to understand Italian/Irish/German/Scottish/Swedish etc and recognize that they are different ethnicities of white people, but when you get to black people and AA/Nigerian/South African/Kenyan/etc, folks are scratching their heads. Amazing. [/quote]

Not trying to be snarky, but I'm curious. So if someone if from Ethiopia and is a black person, he can't check "African American" because he wasn't brought as a slave? What other race box is there?[/quote]

He could, but he'd be wrong. He's Ethiopian-American (and also black).

BTW, African-American is not a race. [/quote]

So what box should he check?[/quote]

Black. Why is that so hard to understand?

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The kid is white but he should check the box for black? Wow...[/quote]

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