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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think 400 year old colleges know who they should admit.[/quote]

+1 How do these whiners think Harvard got where it is?[/quote]
400 years of white male privilege, and legacies by keeping it in the family.  And on the backs of slaves.

You know people like Mitch McConnell was able to go to Harvard because of the indirect privilege he got from his slave owning ancestors who had the wealth and power to get their kids to Harvard. Then BAM... legacy is born.[/quote]

Uh, Mitch McConnell went to University of KY and Univ. of Louisville for his education.  Two average state schools by anyone’s standard and very down market for DCUM.  Just saying’…. If you are going to throw out names, use a better/more accurate example for your white male privilege reference.  The ugly race fighting on this board (in all directions) is sad. [/quote]
I stand corrected.. it wasn't McConnell, per se, but white slave owning families in general who benefited.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/mcconnell-s-family-shows-legacy-slavery-persists-most-american-lives-n1028031

[quote]Slave owners, like today’s owners of the top 1 percent of wealth, were massively influential in local and national politics. They were pillars of their communities, serving as judges, lawyers and doctors, involved in the making of law, the development of the nation’s first police forces and many of its other institutions. Slave owners’ children ranked among those enrolled at Harvard University, Yale University and Columbia University. Their white workers, business associates and contacts — the other 75 percent of white Southerners as well as many white Americans in the North — largely aspired to join their ranks.[/quote]

The descendants of those slave owning whites are legacies at HYP.[/quote]

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