racism
I am your average, white-Jewish girl from NY. So what, right?
You try getting into Law School with those stats and see where it gets you.
I have watched my non-white friends, with lower grades, lower SAT scores, and less activities get into schools when I haven't. My younger sister was rejected from U of Florida b/c she was your average, white-Jewish girl and they didn't need any more of those. Her friend is a Hispanic-Jewish male, with lower scores and less activities and he was granted admission. UF has some diversity issues.
I am very proud of who I am and where I am. Law school is no piece of cake, but it annoys me that some of the other students feel as though they are "entitled" to something b/c they aren't white. Most of my family was exterminated in the Holocaust. I have relatives from Israel, to NY, to Australia, to Russia and back. My family has never asked for anything and doesn't feel as though anyone owes us anything just b/c we're Jewish. As long as people go around blaming others for what ails them they have an excuse to never go further.
Until the day I die I can say poor me, my family was gassed to death and put in ovens, therefore I can sit on my ass and make the world around me pay for it.
That's a shitty way to live and I won't do it.
Currently I am taking a Human Rights class in an effort to make the world a better place. I have seen the suffering of millions and do what I can to change it. But as long as there is ignorance in this world, nothing will change. People need to understand that it is our differences that makes us all the same. Unfortunately it's those differences that scares people and creates racism.
~C
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