Wow, so many Rachel Dolezals around.

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Anonymous wrote:23 and me affirmative action game changer

Not at all. 23andme won’t get you on a tribe’s rolls. It won’t even help you out if it turns out the infant you want to adopt has a NA parent and you dig up a NA great-grandparent who never enrolled.

How much African is required for African American

It doesn’t that way, Troll. Technically, my DDs are more European than African. However, they have always lived as AAs. They have attended historically AA churches, participated in clubs, activities, etc that were either focused on AA culture or were majority AA in makeup, and were always registered in school as AA.

This has nothing to do with college admissions or FA. It’s about lived identity. My girls have never identified as anything else.

If someone has always lived as AA from birth, I don’t care if they are 51% European or 90%.

So how do you deny a dna test vs joining clubs

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Anonymous wrote:People like to pretend affirmative action in college admissions is some sort of reparations policy.

It’s not.

It’s to make campuses more diverse, full stop. Colleges can and do investigate when something doesn’t seem to add up. I had a couple classmates try to get cute with their representations in their apps and they didn’t do very well with admissions.

Social media has really helped with revealing the posers.

How could they be busted? A pp said that it is not about genetics, it's about how her kids identify. For example they listen to rap and go to an AA church. I don't blame Elizabeth Warren one bit, this policy is a joke. What if you are half white and half black? Can you choose AA if you grew up with your white mom in the burbs? What is the rule?

Many people do because they were never regarded as white despite the white mom. I know young people who are 3/4 white and grew up in HOCO, but were never regarded as white so they always identified as AA.

There’s no rule because the federal government has never had an incentive to prevent people from identifying as AA. IF there was ever a tangible benefit to legally being classified as AA, the federal government will rush to quantify it. Likely around 1/4 African ancestry, although there are people who are 1/8 and even 1/16 who have never identified as white and have faced systemic racism.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:23 and me affirmative action game changer

Not at all. 23andme won’t get you on a tribe’s rolls. It won’t even help you out if it turns out the infant you want to adopt has a NA parent and you dig up a NA great-grandparent who never enrolled.

How much African is required for African American

One fourth of my ancestry is black. I look black. If you ask ten people my ethnicity, they would all say black because of the color of my skin. I've faced the bigotry of people assuming I wasn't "smart," and assuming I got a job due to affirmative action despite having much better grades than white students I graduated with (who also got jobs with the same firm). I've had people talk about how unfair it was that I got into a certain grad school that a white classmate didn't. Luckily one of my white friends who knew both my grades and the other classmate's grades was there to set the record straight. I don't think a percentage cut off can determine if you're black. People would look askance at me if I tried to claim to be something else. My cousin who has more African ancestry than I do doesn't look black and never faced the same discrimination I did. I think how you look influences whether you face discrimination. I've never needed affirmative action based on objective standards like grades and performance, but I wonder if the biases without it would have stopped me from getting in the door to prove myself.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People like to pretend affirmative action in college admissions is some sort of reparations policy.

It’s not.

It’s to make campuses more diverse, full stop. Colleges can and do investigate when something doesn’t seem to add up. I had a couple classmates try to get cute with their representations in their apps and they didn’t do very well with admissions.

Social media has really helped with revealing the posers.

How could they be busted? A pp said that it is not about genetics, it's about how her kids identify. For example they listen to rap and go to an AA church. I don't blame Elizabeth Warren one bit, this policy is a joke. What if you are half white and half black? Can you choose AA if you grew up with your white mom in the burbs? What is the rule?

No, tribal identity isn’t about genetics. You’re confusing things. Warren didn’t have a tribal affiliation.

Warren is a joke, and exposed the Native American joke.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People like to pretend affirmative action in college admissions is some sort of reparations policy.

It’s not.

It’s to make campuses more diverse, full stop. Colleges can and do investigate when something doesn’t seem to add up. I had a couple classmates try to get cute with their representations in their apps and they didn’t do very well with admissions.

Social media has really helped with revealing the posers.

How could they be busted? A pp said that it is not about genetics, it's about how her kids identify. For example they listen to rap and go to an AA church. I don't blame Elizabeth Warren one bit, this policy is a joke. What if you are half white and half black? Can you choose AA if you grew up with your white mom in the burbs? What is the rule?

No, tribal identity isn’t about genetics. You’re confusing things. Warren didn’t have a tribal affiliation.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a neighbor who constantly mentions how her son will have no problem with college admission because he is Native American. Her husband, herself and her child ALL have blond hair and blue eyes. A few times when she has mentioned this someone in the group had looked at her funny or come right and asked how are you Native American. She'll go on that she has a paper from the tribe and they make sure to stay a part of it so they can use it later. They have never lived on a reservation or follow any Native American traditions.

Assuming this is true and she is not nuts, this strikes me as not being the intent for affirmative action to help Native Americans. Do colleges accept stuff like this?

Why don't you MYOB.

Hmm.

Are you a criminal?

No. Are you nosy sack of shit?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People like to pretend affirmative action in college admissions is some sort of reparations policy.

It’s not.

It’s to make campuses more diverse, full stop. Colleges can and do investigate when something doesn’t seem to add up. I had a couple classmates try to get cute with their representations in their apps and they didn’t do very well with admissions.

Social media has really helped with revealing the posers.

How could they be busted? A pp said that it is not about genetics, it's about how her kids identify. For example they listen to rap and go to an AA church. I don't blame Elizabeth Warren one bit, this policy is a joke. What if you are half white and half black? Can you choose AA if you grew up with your white mom in the burbs? What is the rule?

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:23 and me affirmative action game changer

Not at all. 23andme won’t get you on a tribe’s rolls. It won’t even help you out if it turns out the infant you want to adopt has a NA parent and you dig up a NA great-grandparent who never enrolled.

How much African is required for African American

It's all made-up, so I guess it depends how well you can play the role.

Whining well is critical.

You seem to be doing an excellent job at whining.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a neighbor who constantly mentions how her son will have no problem with college admission because he is Native American. Her husband, herself and her child ALL have blond hair and blue eyes. A few times when she has mentioned this someone in the group had looked at her funny or come right and asked how are you Native American. She'll go on that she has a paper from the tribe and they make sure to stay a part of it so they can use it later. They have never lived on a reservation or follow any Native American traditions.

Assuming this is true and she is not nuts, this strikes me as not being the intent for affirmative action to help Native Americans. Do colleges accept stuff like this?

Why don't you MYOB.

Hmm.

Are you a criminal?

Anonymous wrote:I have a neighbor who constantly mentions how her son will have no problem with college admission because he is Native American. Her husband, herself and her child ALL have blond hair and blue eyes. A few times when she has mentioned this someone in the group had looked at her funny or come right and asked how are you Native American. She'll go on that she has a paper from the tribe and they make sure to stay a part of it so they can use it later. They have never lived on a reservation or follow any Native American traditions.

Assuming this is true and she is not nuts, this strikes me as not being the intent for affirmative action to help Native Americans. Do colleges accept stuff like this?

Why don't you MYOB.

The trolls have found this thread and will wreck all reasonable discussion.

Anonymous wrote:My coworker is white, blond and blue eyed. Her mom is Chinese. My coworker grew up in Hong Kong and her family pics are of all traditionally looking Chinese people. Her dad was a white blond guy from New Zealand.

Tell them to be careful, or Dems will have them dissapeared.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:23 and me affirmative action game changer

Not at all. 23andme won’t get you on a tribe’s rolls. It won’t even help you out if it turns out the infant you want to adopt has a NA parent and you dig up a NA great-grandparent who never enrolled.

How much African is required for African American

It's all made-up, so I guess it depends how well you can play the role.

Whining well is critical.

Anonymous wrote:People like to pretend affirmative action in college admissions is some sort of reparations policy.

It’s not.

It’s to make campuses more diverse, full stop. Colleges can and do investigate when something doesn’t seem to add up. I had a couple classmates try to get cute with their representations in their apps and they didn’t do very well with admissions.

Social media has really helped with revealing the posers.