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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are the racists really trying to deny implicit bias? And racism?

That’s rich. 
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I'm trying to figure out who you mean by racists? You mean the racists who are all about giving unfair advantages to middle-class black children while telling poor Johnnie-with-the-much-better grades (or whatever name they came up with) that he can go to community college? The obvious implication is that community college is "good enough" for poor whites, even if they've excelled in high school, because blacks who aren't as academically inclined deserve to go to the stellar university.

Yes, it really is rich that those racists are denying the racism involved where LaTwanda from Arlington with the so-so grades gets into a good university, and Billy-Bob from a coal-mining town in WV who has significantly higher grades ends up in community college because, well.....wrong color.

Skin-based AA is racist. Period.[/quote]

Do you think that implicit bias and racism negatively affect black people today?

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For the point of this discussion, any racism against black people would only enter into it if Admissions Committees were looking at a black kid with a 3.8 and a white kid with a 3.3, and because of racism, they give the nod to the so-so white kid and show the high-achieving black kid the door. But as it stands now, Admissions Committees are doing the opposite: favoring "so-so" black kids over high-achieving whites.

Let's just take race out of it. Kids with higher scores and grades, complemented by impressive extracurricular activities such as Student Body President or editor of the high school newspaper, get in over less-qualified kids. Race should not be a factor.[/quote]

It’s a simple question: Do you think that implicit bias and racism negatively affect black people today? 
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You do realize you're asking the same question to many different posters.

And your question seems to imply that black people's failures (or comparative lack of success, relative to whites, Jews, and Asians) is due entirely or even primarily to racism. It's not. And even if it were, that doesn't mean "so-so" LaTwanda should  get booted up ahead of Billy-with-the-As. All it means is that we make sure that LaTwanda, should she have the higher grades and scores, doesn't get stepped over in favor of Billy.

Now, I answered your question. Wil you be brave enough to answer mine: Do you think that black people's choices and behavior are at least somewhat responsible to any bias against them (or is it all someone else's fault)?
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Really, +1 Slut? You’re going to +1 this post? Your standards are really dropping. 
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[b]Do you call all the black girls having babies without husbands "slut"? [/b]You're disgusting. (And obviously angry because the truth is being discussed here - and that's that bias is not working against blacks' college admissions chances.)[/quote]

Nope. I save the “slut” expression for the +1 Sluts of the world who +1 total crap. 
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In other words, you call people who point out the obvious truth you don't want to hear "slut," and the real "sluts" - the girls with four babies with four baby daddies - you will defend. [/quote]

No, people who +1 any stupid comment on DCUM. No standards at all. And they do it all day long.

Are you calling single mothers “sluts”? 
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