Guy with shitty GPA fakes being black…
…gets into med school.
Love it. But that ain’t just a tan.
When I was in college (early 2000’s) I always remember on applications for grants, scholarships, or even federal job applications, there was always a box to check that read “Are you a member of the first nations of other visible minority group?”
I never really thought much of it at the time (except for the general disdain of knowing that not checking that box would ensure I was automatically passed over for some scholarships, jobs, etc based on my skin colour). I wonder if that question is still asked up here on those forms?
I can’t believe that in 2017 the idea that we should not discriminate based on skin color is a controversial idea.
I also know a girl who barely qualified for first nations status and received a 10k grant for school because of that. (I think her grandmother was half first nations). She spent the money on a boob job.
Guy with shitty GPA fakes being black…
…gets into med school.
https://youtu.be/Of96NrOZ5jM
i was black for Halloween one time. I am told that wouldn’t fly today. So confusing .
Love it. But that ain’t just a tan.
Maybe he’s a white hispanic.
I can’t believe that in 2017 the idea that we should not discriminate based on skin color is a controversial idea.
There’s a huge segment of society that still vigorously defends discrimination in admissions, hiring, etc based on skin color or ethnicity. That’s the problem with things like affirmative action. Once you set that up as the standard, taking it away is sold as a racist attack on whatever minority it was perceived as helping.
This is why language is important. Euphemisms like “affirmative action” hide (by design) what’s really happening.
We need to say what it is.
It’s discrimination based on skin color.
When the subject is being discussed we need to ask ourselves and ask those we are conversing with “do you think discrimination based on skin color is ok?”
That’s where the starting point should be.
This is why language is important. Euphemisms like “affirmative action” hide (by design) what’s really happening.
We need to say what it is.
Let’s call it what it is: Institutional racism.
This is why language is important. Euphemisms like “affirmative action” hide (by design) what’s really happening.
We need to say what it is.
Let’s call it what it is: Institutional racism.
Accurate.
I can’t believe that in 2017 the idea that we should not discriminate based on skin color is a controversial idea.
For sure. I really must have not been paying attention over the last few years as I completely missed the moment in time when that way of thinking became mainstream.
Do you feel that whatever disadvantages blacks in this country were dealt by slavery-jim crow-redlining-other systemic and individual processes has been ameliorated, or do you just think there are better ways of dealing with problems of poverty, regardless of skin color.
When I was in college (early 2000’s) I always remember on applications for grants, scholarships, or even federal job applications, there was always a box to check that read “Are you a member of the first nations of other visible minority group?”
I never really thought much of it at the time (except for the general disdain of knowing that not checking that box would ensure I was automatically passed over for some scholarships, jobs, etc based on my skin colour). I wonder if that question is still asked up here on those forms?
I went to grad school with a red headed freckled girl who was eligible for minority scholarships because (I think) her great grandmother was a Cherokee. Which seemed to me to violate the spirit of those sorts of scholarships.
Do you feel that whatever disadvantages blacks in this country were dealt by slavery-jim crow-redlining-other systemic and individual processes has been ameliorated, or do you just think there are better ways of dealing with problems of poverty, regardless of skin color.
There are better ways.
Discriminating against whites or Asians TODAY, people who had nothing to do with past discrimination (and in the case of first generation Asian immigrants it can’t even be argued that they’ve ever benefited from any sort of past American discrimination), does nothing to remedy problems that may or may not be due to past discrimination.
Also, if you’re blaming your problems today on something that happened generations ago you really need to grow a pair.
My own personal history is this…
…my grandparents were immigrants from Eastern Europe. They were treated like shit when they got here.
Where’s my reparations?
Let’s take this to its logical extreme. We are essentially discriminating against whites today because whites did it in the past (and we’re doing it asians simply because they are successful, which is fucking insane).
Whites also had slaves in the past. Is it ok for blacks today to own white slaves?
Why not?
If my white great grand father killed someone’s black great grand father is it ok if some random black guy kills some random white guy?
Why not?
Guy with shitty GPA fakes being black…
…gets into med school.
https://youtu.be/Of96NrOZ5jM
i was black for Halloween one time. I am told that wouldn’t fly today. So confusing .
My best friend in 6th grade went as “Aunt Jemima”. He is white. I am white. Everyone in my town was white.
Possibly the most racist Halloween costume of all time.
I also know a girl who barely qualified for first nations status and received a 10k grant for school because of that. (I think her grandmother was half first nations). She spent the money on a boob job.
LOL. But I think that grants for flat chested women to get boob jobs is a completely different subject. 
Are women who identify as flat chested a minority?
When I was in college (early 2000’s) I always remember on applications for grants, scholarships, or even federal job applications, there was always a box to check that read “Are you a member of the first nations of other visible minority group?”
I never really thought much of it at the time (except for the general disdain of knowing that not checking that box would ensure I was automatically passed over for some scholarships, jobs, etc based on my skin colour). I wonder if that question is still asked up here on those forms?
I went to grad school with a red headed freckled girl who was eligible for minority scholarships because (I think) her great grandmother was a Cherokee. Which seemed to me to violate the spirit of those sorts of scholarships.
The African Americans that get scholarships and preferential treatment are a lot of the times from the middle and upper class. The onea who actually need the help (the poor) a lot of time don’t get it because their scores are not as good as the middle and upper class African Americans. Someone described it as an arms race to get the as many of the small cadre of high achieving Affrican American students as possible because the number is limited and every school wants as many as possible. Personally I’d like to see it socioeconomically based but if one insists that it must be racially based make a cut off at some income level because the son of a managing director of a wall street investment bank sure as he’ll doesn’t need any help.
Guy with shitty GPA fakes being black…
…gets into med school.
Um, Just what we need, more doctors with lower IQ/work ethic. Makes sense to me!
Hey doc. you don’t sound like you know WTF you are talking about but I do like your skin pigment so continue on…
For some reason your thread title made me think of this movie:
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