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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a question.

Why is it that it is assumed that Latinos and Blacks can’t test high in the SATs or APs because they don’t have privilege and that Asian somehow have that privilege?  Or is it that we assume that Black people and Hispanic people aren’t smart enough because of their “culture?”

As an Asian person, I babysat my baby sister and practiced the SAT test from books I got from the library. The more I practiced, the better I got. I eventually got a 1500.

My parents didn’t take me to the library. This was the high school library. I did this because I knew the test was important and if I didn’t do well, it would be a metric against me. I stayed up until midnight, when my parents got home to make sure they got home ok. They hated my lack of sleep but I was always worried.

Please explain, how if I could do this, without assistance from my parents, while babysitting my baby sister while my parents worked their second job, (fyi- my HHI at the time was under 50k) living in a one bedroom apartment in Catonsville MD, how I am more privileged.

Not all Asians have private tutors. But the books are available to every kid that wanted them (and there were always several copies around).

And fyi- I worked through college and had a bunch of debt. But it was still worth it.

I am going to argue that isn’t privilege. It’s  because we don’t tell them that it’s not just a dream- that it can be reality if they work for it. 
I am going to argue that they are not motivated to even to apply because of financial limits that prevent them from dreaming of it. And I think that is the biggest issue at hand.

We have to encourage people to let them know they can do it.  We have Pell grants and so many other options in the military and the DOD based on financial need.

I get that systemic racism is part of the privilege I have benefited from. But is the application rates of Hispanics and blacks even representative of the population?  Isn’t part of it the fact that we have such a cultural divide that we cannot see that we need to tell them it’s not just possible- but an expectation?

And for the record: I do want Blacks and Hispanics in our colleges. Representation matters but so does acceptance and love and compassion. But I absolutely hate the idea that tests and grades are reflective of privilege.  I don’t think that’s the whole story and I think that’s why so many people (60% of Dems) are against affirmative action [/quote]

Asians have the privilege of having parents who care about their education.[/quote]

PP here.

I don’t think that that is it. My mom wasn’t a Tiger mom- she was never around. My dad was abusive and also never around. We were really poor. My mom wanted me to go to college but she was also ok with me becoming a bank teller.

Education for me was the best way out.

Is it a privilege for me to have the desperation and the drive to get out of a toxic abusive family?  Because I’m not sure that’s it.

And you are also saying in your statement about that Hispanics and Black people have bad parents. That’s overtly racist. And I simply don’t believe that is the case.

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