Quote:
Originally posted by sigmagrrl
What if you were identified solely by your SSN? The adcoms wouldn't even see your address (so they wouldn't know if you were from Little Italy, Harlem, or the Upper East Side), just your numbers?
Just a thought, addressed to everyone, not just sugar and spice. I only picked up on what she wrote and started thinking....
|
I think that wouldn't really solve the problem. Far too many students of color face a disadvantage just based on the cultural structure of our country. We have made great strides as a nation in the past few decades, but you can't erase centuries of a system of mental genocide with 40 years of progressive legislation (
see Spike Lee's "Bamboolzed". I don't feel I can fully express my point here, to do so would be far too long a post. However I hope you can kind of see where I'm coming from.