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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My family worked in manual jobs after they came to this country, well after the Emancipation Proclamation.  They didn't own slaves and didn't profit from slavery.  Some of them felt discrimination in hiring as late as the 1950s (against Catholics in public employment).  They don't have white guilt, nor do I.  My advice to others is:

It's been 150 years since the abolition of slavery, and 50 years since the Civil Rights Act and other landmark legislation.  In recent decades, we've had immigrants literally washing up on US shores with just the clothes on their backs and then buckling down and making something of their lives.  They don't blame others for their many troubles.  Study hard.  Lose the attitude.  Obey the laws.  Patronize the businesses of those who risk all to invest in your community, don't burn them.  Stop using "discrimination" as an excuse for everything wrong in your life.  Focus on what you can contribute, not what is "owed" to you.[/quote]

Yea, thanks for telling us what is wrong with AA's?  How many do you actually know?   Do you have an answer to the OP's question or are you just soapboxing?

You know it is a frightening thing that while more AA's are in college than anytime in this country's history, people still stick to this notion that AA's are just standng there with their hands out talking about White guilt.  We ARE educating ourselves and that is why you get the whole Affirmative Action criticism.  AA's don't go to college and we get posts like this "you are not doing anything to better yourselves."  We go to college and it is "you don't derserve to be there,[b] Affirmative Action got you in.[/b]"  Whites now play the victim role as much as any other minority.  Maybe that means progress is bening made.

TBH, when I was in college the focus was not on White guilt, it was on White MALE guilt and most of the people at the rallies critcizing the White men were White women.  But y'all go ahead and believe what you want. [/quote]

Affirmative Action is a double edged sword - it may get more AA to colleges (which I am sure everyone supports) but people will always have doubts. It's like having a footnote on your resume.  I can't imagine anything more frustrating if you are a truly high performing AA. But I don't think you can have both ways.  [/quote]

I am the PP here.  I can only speak for myself and the other high performing AA's that I know.  We do not give a flying fig about someone's doubts about how we got where we are. We are here and, in our minds, that is all that matters.  If a person wants to believe that I have achieved my station in life because of Affirmative Action, that is on them.  IMO, that this that person's way to justify their own inadequacies.  [/quote]+1.  Thank you for speaking the truth and telling it like it is!  We owe no one ANY apology or explanation when we have worked our behinds off for our accomplishments.[/quote]

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