[lovelyivy84]

Originally posted by valkyrie


Lovelyivy, I've agreed with everything you have said, but this comment sort of bothers me and that might partly be because I'm detecting some hostility. As a white woman, I've really not complained about anything, but believe me, in my field (law) in a town like Chicago where the legal community is very conservative, even white women face tons and tons of barriers, and maybe even more so because we're not appealing in that we don't add to a firm's minority count which is something that is usually publicized. We're just white women. Sometimes I think we fall through the cracks, although I'm not complaining at all, just making an observation.

Excuse me, but I am bitter.

IT seems like MANY white women I know are against aa. Why? Because they feel that they don't need it, and it makes them look bad. THere is never a consideration that there are a LOT of people who do need it.

I personally don't feel that I needed AA- I had an A in hs, and some of the highest scores in my class. I realised that despite this there would ALWAYS be people who would say that I achieved everything I have because of AA. But I realise that there are TOO MANY who need that program- and still receive no benefits (that's another argument entirely, about the EFFECTIVENESS of AA as it is practiced- which I believe is not significant). So for me to suggest that it be abolished simply because it is inconvenient for me is SELFISH. Plain ol selfish.

AOPi's post just brought all that up.