And this is why affirmative action can be bad.

[CitizenPained]

Well, this thread proves that AA definitely has a backlash and increases racial tensions.

:/

 

[CitizenPained]

I think affirmative action works just fine. It should last as long as slavery and Jim Crow, not a day more.

I'm guessing you're black, and of course you think it's just fine because it gives you a free ride through life.

Your assertion that most blacks 'probably never saw discrimination a day in their life' is a little scary. You have a negative opinion of blacks. You're saying you don't discriminate? Or wouldn't?

 

[Salt Jones]

Well, this thread proves that AA definitely has a backlash and increases racial tensions.

:/

So did slavery and Jim Crow.

 

[Patrick2]

I think affirmative action works just fine. It should last as long as slavery and Jim Crow, not a day more.

I'm guessing you're black, and of course you think it's just fine because it gives you a free ride through life.

Yeah it does. My 20 years in the military, highly valuable skill set and superior intellect would only hold me back.

Thank you Affirmative Action, without your free ride I'd be lost.

P.S. You guessed right, I am black.

Surprise, surprise. Tell me about your superior intellect. Any published papers?

 

[Tank]

No matter what, blacks lack of mental facilities will always burden America.

 

[Salt Jones]

I'm guessing you're black, and of course you think it's just fine because it gives you a free ride through life.

Yeah it does. My 20 years in the military, highly valuable skill set and superior intellect would only hold me back.

Thank you Affirmative Action, without your free ride I'd be lost.

P.S. You guessed right, I am black.

Surprise, surprise. Tell me about your superior intellect. Any published papers?

No published papers, but a nice 6 figure defense industry job, military retirement check and $460 per year healthcare premiums.

 

[Tank]

No published papers, but a nice 6 figure defense industry job, military retirement check and $460 per year healthcare premiums.

You should thank a white man

 

[CitizenPained]

No matter what, blacks lack of mental facilities will always burden America.

That was improper English you just used.

 

[Salt Jones]

No matter what, blacks lack of mental facilities will always burden America.

Don't worry, your time is almost up. Then Black Jesus will deal with you.

 

[Tank]

No matter what, blacks lack of mental facilities will always burden America.

That was improper English you just used.

Did you get the point?

 

[Tank]

No matter what, blacks lack of mental facilities will always burden America.

Don't worry, your time is almost up. Then Black Jesus will deal with you.

All the guys I know with the name Jesus are Mexican.

 

[Salt Jones]

No published papers, but a nice 6 figure defense industry job, military retirement check and $460 per year healthcare premiums.

You should thank a white man

I thank all the white men who underestimated my skills and intellect. You made it easy for me to roll right over you. Sorry it made you bitter, but life is a cutthroat game.

 

[Sunshine]

Here's one link

At Williams College and Amherst College, two of the most selective liberal arts colleges in the nation, more than 50 percent of all black applicants have been accepted over the past decade. The acceptance rate at these top-ranking colleges for applicants of all races stands at about 20 percent.

Harvard Recruits Blacks

SAT score differentials (page 5)

Asian applicants are the biggest winners if race is no longer considered in
admissions. Nearly four out of every five places in the admitted class not
taken by African-American and Hispanic students would be filled by Asians.
We noted earlier that Asian candidates are at a disadvantage in admission
compared to their white, African-American, and Hispanic counterparts.
Removing this disadvantage at the same time preferences for African Americans
and Hispanics are eliminated results in a significant gain in the acceptance
rate for Asian students—from 17.6 percent to 23.4 percent. Asians,
who comprised 29.5 percent of total applicants in 1997, would make up
31.5 percent of accepted students in the simulation, compared with an
actual proportion of 23.7 percent. Other aspects of admitted students, including
the distribution of SAT scores and, especially, the proportions of
students who are athletes or legacies, are hardly affected by affirmative action.

I don't think that if we ended affirmative action today that everything would just 'go back to the way it was'. Universities have a stake in being diverse.

Back to what? Jim Crow? Slavery? Pre civil rights?

The proportion of blacks and Hispanics isn't even the proportion of the US population.

Don't make the mistake that "money" should mean "special rights". Look at how stupid George and John are.

In fact, if you look at the bios of the list of Nobel Prize winners in the sciences or economics, time and again you find they were the children of hard working middle class parents. Parents who taught them hard work. Or supported them while they pursued "higher education".

We should be doing that with American children. Identifying the most bright and helping those that are willing to work.

Unfortunately, the right has this bizarre idea that helping any other American is the dreaded "Socialism". If you support American students, it's "Socialism". If you help Americans get jobs, it's "Socialism". If you want health care for Americans, it's "Socialism". I'm sick of hearing the right complain that anything to help America is "Socialism". More and more of the right is on Medicare and getting Social Security. More of that dreaded "Socialism". Would they rather live in a tent and eat cat food?

My son was in a program for gifted and talented youth. You would have thought the roof was going to cave in the way parents of other kids groused about it. No one questions spending millions to try to bring those who are behind move up to at least average...even though it doesn't always happen..and even though many don't even want the help. Yet, they do not realize that it is the smart kids who will be working to solve the country's problems.

 

[Salt Jones]

Here's one link



Harvard Recruits Blacks

SAT score differentials (page 5)



I don't think that if we ended affirmative action today that everything would just 'go back to the way it was'. Universities have a stake in being diverse.

Back to what? Jim Crow? Slavery? Pre civil rights?

The proportion of blacks and Hispanics isn't even the proportion of the US population.

Don't make the mistake that "money" should mean "special rights". Look at how stupid George and John are.

In fact, if you look at the bios of the list of Nobel Prize winners in the sciences or economics, time and again you find they were the children of hard working middle class parents. Parents who taught them hard work. Or supported them while they pursued "higher education".

We should be doing that with American children. Identifying the most bright and helping those that are willing to work.

Unfortunately, the right has this bizarre idea that helping any other American is the dreaded "Socialism". If you support American students, it's "Socialism". If you help Americans get jobs, it's "Socialism". If you want health care for Americans, it's "Socialism". I'm sick of hearing the right complain that anything to help America is "Socialism". More and more of the right is on Medicare and getting Social Security. More of that dreaded "Socialism". Would they rather live in a tent and eat cat food?

My son was in a program for gifted and talented youth. You would have thought the roof was going to cave in the way parents of other kids groused about it. No one questions spending millions to try to bring those who are behind move up to at least average...even though it doesn't always happen..and even though many don't even want the help. Yet, they do not realize that it is the smart kids who will be working to solve the country's problems.

Problems that were created by other "smart kids". How "smart were the guys who created Credit Default Swaps or CDO's? How about the Enron, Leaman or Bears Sterns guys. Let's not forget about the "smart planners of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

 

[Tank]

No published papers, but a nice 6 figure defense industry job, military retirement check and $460 per year healthcare premiums.

You should thank a white man

I thank all the white men who underestimated my skills and intellect. You made it easy for me to roll right over you. Sorry it made you bitter, but life is a cutthroat game.

Come on, if black folk were so smart Africa would be alot different.

 

[Salt Jones]

You should thank a white man

I thank all the white men who underestimated my skills and intellect. You made it easy for me to roll right over you. Sorry it made you bitter, but life is a cutthroat game.

Come on, if black folk were so smart Africa would be alot different.

Smart and tribal are two different things. Checkout some of the former satellites of the USSR.

 

[Patrick2]

Yeah it does. My 20 years in the military, highly valuable skill set and superior intellect would only hold me back.

Thank you Affirmative Action, without your free ride I'd be lost.

P.S. You guessed right, I am black.

Surprise, surprise. Tell me about your superior intellect. Any published papers?

No published papers, but a nice 6 figure defense industry job, military retirement check and $460 per year healthcare premiums.

I work in the aerospace/defense industry - tell me - where do you work? What do you do for your six firgures? (THIS should be good. ) Frequently I've seen projects where the company has to meet the minority quota as part of the contract. I'm guessing you're one of those "negros to sit near the front door" to make the government happy. I notice you've given up on the "superior intellect" claim - again surprise, surprise.

 

[CitizenPained]

Patrick is the guy who crosses the street when he sees a black man because he knows he's about to get pounded for being a fuckhead.

 

[Patrick2]

No published papers, but a nice 6 figure defense industry job, military retirement check and $460 per year healthcare premiums.

You should thank a white man

I thank all the white men who underestimated my skills and intellect. You made it easy for me to roll right over you. Sorry it made you bitter, but life is a cutthroat game.

Really, no kidding, let's hear all about your skills and intellect. Speak up.

 

[Patrick2]

Patrick is the guy who crosses the street when he sees a black man because he knows he's about to get pounded for being a fuckhead.

Hey, if the need for mental masturbation becomes irresistable for you, what say you do it in PRIVATE - maybe the teachers' bathroom in your ghetto school?