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[quote=Anonymous]I am white from poor background and feel a lot of judgement from other whites. My parents didn’t attend college and never left their hometown. I was first in my family to scrape through college, but didn’t even dream about going to graduate school. I just broke 100k for the first time this year at age 45.

There are so many white people, especially here compared midwest where I am from, who assume every white person had the same advantages they did, so they see someone like me and assume something is messed up about me or I did something wrong because I do not have the same career success they did. I’m not doing terribly, but not nearly as well as whites coming from multi generational high education backgrounds.

Agree with other posters that getting admitted to college is not the biggest problem. It is paying for it, or growing up knowing it will be accessible to you if you are able to get in.

Affirmative action is also a moot point in populations that are grossly underprepared for college. It seems to that unfortunately many poor black youth come from situations like this. It’s stupid to talk about affirmative action when they clearly never had a chance in the first place. Poverty sucks.

Also, maybe it is wishful thinking for most populations to go straight from a generation of abject poverty to the next generation of highly educated professionals. It has not worked that way through history. I believe my family is more than an anecdote: grandpa didn’t finish high school, worked construction his whole life. Dad finished high school and had a somewhat successful landscaping business. Now family members in my generation are mostly white collar or advanced degree professionals. My dad thinks I have it made. My kids have a great chance of doing better than me.[/quote]

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