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Originally posted by ktsnake
...reexamine affirmative action to help those of low socioeconomic beginnings, not necessarily those of a certain ancestry.
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As I understand it, socioeconomic background is considered at some level for some college scholarships and entrances into college...
I think it is more a triumph over all the poverty that one faces that the admissions committees are examining at some level in graduate and professional schools--probably not undergraduate level courses...
For some folks, especially those of color that are underrepresented in academia, it is the historical context and no guarentees of any future "state-sponsored" and legal segregation of folks that make it an issue in regards to affirmative action.
As for these folks: they can do whatever they set their mind to do. They just choose not to follow what "society" has asked them to do--such as paying federal taxes. It is not a matter of being drugged out and undereducated, it is more of matter of the choices the made in their lives and the exclusionary living they choose to live...
For the most part, many folks of color will look at one not in their ethnic group rather oddly at first, but slowly start to include them once they learn of the earnest behavior of the person--e.g. "judging someone by the content of their character..." However, I have been in many situations that I have presented myself with the utmost articulation and pristine behavior in a "majority" and mainstream arena and have been treated as a leper or at best, like my hard working enslaved anscestors...
How should I be capable of reconciling that issue?