<p>I"ve been very behind on my Cornell related news. I just redcently heard about some controversy involving an article from the Conrell Review entitled something like "The Angry Minority." I was unable to find a copy, tho I didn't look for it at length, on their website.</p>
<p>Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the article ONLINE? Thanks.</p>
<p>The</a> Cornell Review | Taste the Rainbow</p>
<p>A bit of Googling revealed this.</p>
<p>I am a first generation Hispanic college student and I agree with Mr.Shive. Cornell already goes above and beyond to ensure that all it's students (not just minorities) succeed. Minorities should stop having victim ideology and most certainly stop biting the hand that feeds them.</p>
<p>Haha that was a funny article. As a moderate, it makes me laugh when I see the bible thumpers attacking the hippies and vice versa. (please no one get offended, that was a joke).</p>
<p>I hate the implication that all minorites reap the benefits of Affirmative Action though. Maybe blacks n hispanics do, but asians/south asians sure don't. The truth is that south asians haven't been in this country nearly as long as blacks, and we are a much, much smaller minority. Yet we don't get special treatment. We do however, reap all the benefits of ignorant racists who call us terrorists, wire tap our mosques and frisk us at airports. Sorry, I think I'm starting to sound like one of those minority "victims" which I hate. </p>
<p>what is ujamma and akwekon btw? am I correct in assuming it's a dorm with an african theme geared towards black americans?</p>
<p>Those houses are program houses with cultural themes. They are not geared solely to Black, Native-American, or Hispanic students but to anyone who is interested in learning more about that culture. For example, there is one Chinese-American student who is doing Africana Studies living in Ujamaa. If i were a Spanish major I may find it useful to live in LLC(Latino Living Center) or if they do make a Pan-Asian dorm I would love to live there since I love Japanese pop culture. </p>
<p>The reason why a lot of people in Ujamaa are Black is because most people interested in African/African American culture are Black, because that is most of the time who they are. But anyone can live in these houses, it's just that most white people at Cornell are afraid to, 'cause they think we'll attack them or something crazy. </p>
<p>And Black people and Hispanics definitely do not reap the benefits of AA. Anyone who says that does not know anything about AA, usually anti-AA people are very ignorant about AA in general. If they did reap most of the benefits then there would be a whole lot of Black people and Hispanics in college and in higher-level but there are not. Most top colleges are even struggling to recruit minorities, mainly Blacks and Hispanics, Cornell is one of them with there Black population dwindling every year. </p>
<p>Studies show that the biggest beneficiaries of AA are white women. And that is fact. AA has only been successful for them(not that they still don't face some problems with the disparity between female and male salaries). For everyone else they still struggle with a lot of discrimination, institutional-wise.</p>
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it's just that most white people at Cornell are afraid to, 'cause they think we'll attack them or something crazy.
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<p>You sure you want to stand by that comment? I'm sure most students at Cornell could care less about ethnic-themed program houses.</p>
<p>+1 Cayuga.</p>
<p>TB 17 has made one of the more ignorant statements I have seen on this site in my years of watching.</p>
<p>I don't post often, but something that ignorant can't go unanswered.</p>
<p>I'm not against AA, I'm just pointing out that it's designed for certain minorities, while other minorities sit by and don't have any special help.</p>
<p>you can word it any way you want, but blacks/hispanics get a little boost in the admissions process. often on chance threads the person will even list "african american" or "hispanic" as part of their stats, because he/she knows it's a plus. i'm a minority, have dealt with racism, and will probably deal with some in the workplace after I graduate...still don't get any special benefits.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link but I'm looking for the 2008 article called "WHat to Expect: The ANgry MInority". I've found some excerpts from it, but not the entire article.</p>
<p>ANyone know where it is? Can this thread not devolve into program house debate and AA shizit?</p>
<p>Why not just email the Review directly?</p>
<p>@stargazerlilies, wow you are almost racist. You do not need to hate the "minority victims". It is truly a messed up world and your hate would only add to the world's disorder.</p>
<p>Umbopo, you had such a problem with what I say, I never knew? Oh wait...that because you never had the balls to respond, so don't talk now. If you think my comment is so ignorant, say why instead of just co-signing CayugaRed.</p>
<p>And Cayuga, I don't know what school your from, but program houses have been the biggest racial problem at Cornell for years, two decades since they were started. They have been portrayed in a negative light by the national media, NY State court cases, and this forum all which add to the misconceptions freshmen have coming in every year. You cannot deny that the average Cornellian has probably referred to Ujamaa as "the black dorm" once in their life. </p>
<p>If you truly believe people don't care about program houses at Cornell, prove me wrong, maybe there's another reason they are in the Cornell Review. Because despite the ignorance of this article it does represent some of the actual social cleavages on campus.</p>
<p>P.S. Umbopo if that offends you in any way, please say so. I wouldn't what to cause you further discomfort. Not.</p>
<p>no futurexreject, I am not racist. Perhaps you're not familiar with what a racist is? It's someone who hates people of a specific race, or several races, usually based on stereotypical generalizations. I hate no particular race. Like ResurgamBell, I hate listening to whiny minorities complain and cry foul at everything. If they got a B in a class, it's because the professor is racist. If they get in an elevator and the other person doesn't say good morning, it's cause the other kids are racist. Everyone is racist. If the bandaid doesn't match the color of your skin, the world is racist. Boohoo. Try complaining about something that actually matters. And last time I checked, whiny people aren't a race. So take your angry accusations of racism elsewhere, because this intelligent minority doesn't want to hear them.</p>
<p>Why must it be only minorities that are whiny? I believe there are whiny people in every race. Plus what particular minority groups are you talking about? What particular person to make things specific.</p>
<p>Actually let me not get in that discussion. Just review what you wrote because it does not sound well thought out.</p>
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<p>They took the article down from their website after the outcry that followed its publication...so unless someone has it saved somewhere...you might have a hard time finding it.</p>
<p>"P.S. Umbopo if that offends you in any way, please say so. I wouldn't what to cause you further discomfort. Not. "</p>
<p>TB:</p>
<p>No worries about offending me. My skin is way too thick to be offended.</p>
<p>That doesn't make you comment any less ignorant.</p>
<p>Carry on with your all-encompassing knowledge of everyone else's perspecitve formed by their life experiences, though you have never walked a step in their shoes, as I have never walked in yours.</p>
<p>No offense here.</p>
<p>The fact that you now realize how ignorant your statement was, as highlighted by Cayuga, makes everyone else the stupid person, eh.</p>
<p>Laughing hard on this end!</p>
<p>Actually I saw no ignorance in my statement. And you still have not pointed why it was ignorant...again you cop out on defending you opinion.</p>
<p>@ TrackBabi17: Of course there are whiny people of every race, but I'm talking about people who are always complaining about the evil whitey taking them down. Want a specific example? In my Writing class, we just got a major paper back from the professor. I got an A-. My friend, who's of Indian descent, got a C+. After class we're on our way to lunch and he's whining about his paper. But do you want to know WHY he got a C+? It's not because he wrote a sucky paper. No, it's because the professor is racist. See, the professor is an evil whitey trying to take him down.
But wait - I'm also south asian - why did I get an A- then? Surely if the professor is trying to take us brown folk down, he wouldn't give me a good grade? Well, my friend justifies, if he gave all of us bad grades, we would get suspicious and report him. It can't be that I simply worked hard on a paper and the other kid didn't. It must be racism. </p>
<p>see, that's what I can't stand. People who make stuff up like that - if you cry racism at everything, even things not remotely racist, you'll become the boy who cries wolf. If something actually racist happened, I would also be angry about it too. My opinion is people should reserve their outcries of racism when something racist actually happens.</p>
<p>"That being said, it’s impossible to ignore the nasty, ignorant, and bitter members of the minority community who constantly whine about the brutal oppression they suffer at the hands of whitey. Apparently, part of this oppression involves their admittance to an Ivy League institution, likely as a recipient of affirmative action and scholarships. If that’s what oppression is, I’d like to get myself a piece of that."</p>
<p>This bit is great lol.</p>
<p>People do that maybe, but those are isolated situations that should not be generalized. Rather you should say, "I hate when people make up stupid stuff to get their own way."</p>