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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]speaking of agendas....

Why do you hate/resent African American professionals so much?

And do you have any evidence at all that their children are keeping *more qualified* first generation college African African students out of elite schools?  Seems highly unlikely.

Are you opposed to legacy preferences generally?[/quote]

No resentment here, I was just describing what you chose to ignore, driven by your obvious resentment against white students.

As for evidence, just look up this same thread, a few comments before ours:

1) "Overall, UC campuses are admitting more students from poor families than before the ban -- no surprise, perhaps, given demographic shifts and the system's post-Proposition 209 emphasis on reaching low-income students of all races. More than one third of the roughly 35,000 UC freshmen enrolled in 2010 came from families making less than $40,000, up from 28 percent in 1995. And even with record-high applications, the system's universities accepted 75 percent of all first-generation college students that year who applied." 
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23516740/affirmative-action-ban-at-uc-15-years-later

2) And, white and Latino admission rates have kept steady, while AA have gone down

3) Do your math

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Sorry, forgot your last question. If it was up to me, I'd abolish legacy and sports preferences tomorrow. But in this thread we're talking about not discriminating against Asian Americans because of their race..[b].which of course somehow has become a conversation about AAs.[/quote][/b]

Every third thread on DCUM for some reason.  I am beginning to think that DCUM is obsessed with AA, in a very much negative way.[/quote]

The reason, I believe, is 1) there are many AAs in this forum, which is natural given DC demographics, 2) some (or many) of them are obsessed with racial matters.

I never experienced a similar reaction in other parts of the country.[/quote]

Nope. Jeff once said that AA were not well represented on DCUM. I don't think the numbers have suddenly jumped upward.  Anecdotally, when I mention DCUM to my Black friends, the vast majority have said they stopped reading  the racist site long ago. Their words. [/quote]

Very good critical thinking there, with the "Jeff once said..."

It is pretty obvious that in the Off-topic and DCPS threads there's a lot of AAs. Perhaps Jeff meant there's not too many in the website overall, but that's irrelevant: Anyone who has posted in DCUM knows that, if a thread has anything to do with race, there will be tons of posts by self-declared AAs. True, those posters may be lying...but that's what they say.

And, IMO, if there's clear, unchecked racism in this forum, it is directed at Asians and Latinos (both legal and illegal immigrants) and Jews. Jeff does a good job at blocking or deleting anything,[b] even if valid, that can hurt the apparently very sensitive nature of AAs. He seems to trust other minorities have more self-confidence.[/b]
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Thanks for proving the point for us.

I'm out of here. [/quote]

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