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Originally posted by Cloud9
You're an idiot.
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Good point. Now how about answering the question.
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Originally posted by sugar and spice
Like I said earlier in this thread, I did fairly well in high school, but I'm not going to pretend that it was all due to my "hard work." I had a lot of advantages that many of my classmates didn't have (parents that read to me and bought me books as a kid, parents who enrolled me in "enrichment programs" and extracurricular activities and extra classes when I was as young as 4, AP and honors and advanced classes, I was raised in an environment that made higher education pretty much a necessity and not a choice, my parents could afford to pay for me to take the SAT as many times as I wanted or run track or apply to ten different colleges had I wanted to, I had enough time that I could participate in lots of extracurricular activities . . . and the list goes on). If you'd given my classmates all the same advantages that I'd had, I have no doubt that all of them, no matter what race, could have done just as well or better than I did.
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Originally posted by enlightenment06
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.
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