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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn't seem fair that some middle class kid who grew up in a middle class neighborhood, lived a typica Americanl middle class life and had only seen American Indians on TV, gets an advantage in getting into aschool because of his great great great grandmother.[/quote]

And my point is, if an African American kid meeting your description gets an advantage because five generations ago his ancestors were slaves, then a kid with Native American ancestry should to, because of all the shit the government did to them (which, like Jim Crow, persisted well into the 20th century).[/quote]
However, African Americans are still discriminated against today. Study after study has shown unfair treatment in the legal system. Black people walking in wealthy neighborhoods are always suspected of crimes.[/quote]

These pissing matches between disadvantaged groups are so stupid. But for the record, most black people do not still live on plantations. Most Indians ARE still stuck on their reservations or in their service areas. I'm not suggesting their plight is worse or that any comparison would not be idiotic. Just that overt racism is not the only thing keeping groups down today. There may well be racist business owners who hate blacks and not Indians, but those owners still aren't moving their plants to the middle of the Arizona dessert to employ Indians.[/quote]

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