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Originally posted by librasoul22
GREAT! I am SO glad that someone had the nerve to post this! PM Mama, I am sorry that reality pisses you off. You must be a very angry person...actually that fact has been verified through certain posts on this very thread.
In regards to your statement about boxes, Affirmative Action, etc.:
Again, I am glad that you can name ONE instance and, you know, I am almost positive someone on here can name at least ONE instance similar to your own. I can. But if you look at the BIG PICTURE...can you tell me the demographic of scholarship recipients? I can tell you RIGHT NOW that your instance along with the singular instances of everyone on this board combined is not enough to dent the stats.
This is what many of you fail to realize. THINK GLOBALLY, NOT LOCALLY. How many Blacks are heads of corporations? How many Blacks do you know that OWN universities? And what do you think the ratio of attendance to college is, black to white, scholarship or not?
The boxes that we check are not to HELP us, they are to CLASSIFY us, and that is, indeed, dangerous. Sorry, but that one Hispanic boy who got the one scholarship is still going to face discrimination and oppression as he moves up the ladder. Just like YOU are as a woman.
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I think PM_Mama00 makes some interesting points. Affirmative Action programs are a way to balance out the exsistence of discrimination towards a class. My professor got her job because of AA, and she's damn proud of it. The only "minority" she fits into is the fact she is a woman, nothing else. I know the process is very slow and it's not producing the african-american CEOs yet, but you can't have equality everywhere, it just doesn't work like that. Give it more time, you'll see better results, they are coming, don't worry.
As for AA being racism against caucasians, I really don't see what that means. Specifically, yes, white males will be at a disadvantage in a fight for a job that invokes AA, but the point of it is to eliminate racial segregation, caucasians will just have to deal with it until that happens.
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