<p>That's quite an analogy, Dr. Horse. :D (By the way, I also have a horse in my screen name. Hindoo was the 1881 KY Derby winner.)</p>
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See what we have here is 2 idiots who are like teenage girls they will do anything and say anything to be popular.
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<p>Are you referring to me? I see that we've resorted to name-calling in the painful wake of the dump of BS that McCain just took on you with his tax flip-flop.</p>
<p>Why would he/she be referring to you? I think the two people who will do anything to be popular (cough, votes) are the two candidates.</p>
<p>To the point, McCain flip-flops considerablely more times than Obama. The reason you probably think otherwise is probably because everytime Obama does, McCain pays for a $5 million adbuy to show the world and spends the next week repeating it over and over again. When McCain does it (Iraq, veteran's funding, most recently taxes, etc) most people write it off. The "Straight Talk" Express derailed many months ago, my friend. </p>
<p>By the way, notice how I said they both flip flop; most politicians do it. They have to to stand a chance sometimes.</p>
<p>No nbachris2788 Im talking about Obama and McCain</p>
<p>I thought that white women benefits the most from affirmative action?</p>
<p>it doesn't matter really, AA should be gotten rid of. people should be judged on there own merits. People think badly about blacks for a reason. Stereotypes just don't appear out of nowhere. There is something true about them all.</p>
<p>"People think badly about blacks for a reason. Stereotypes just don't appear out of nowhere. There is something true about them all."</p>
<p>Dr.Horse, I would like you to clarify exactly what you mean by this statement, because I was about to post a very angry response but I don't want to get too hasty before judging someone.</p>
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<p>Okay, so white people are bunch of racist pricks in their own little world.</p>
<p>Thanks for validating the stereotype.</p>
<p>Its simple, nobody thinks Americans are fat when they are actually skinny. No they are actually fat. So a world wide stereotype is well true and it has a base to it.</p>
<p>If blacks have a stereotype, you cant imagine that it came from thin air, there has to be some base or validity to it.</p>
<p>Stereotypes are just that a thought on a entire group, in which was derived by a smaller portion of that group.</p>
<p>Im not a racist at all, i live in a area where I am the only white. i went to hs where i was 1 of 4 white people in a school of 5000.</p>
<p>I know what I see and have seen and most of the time, stereotypes of blacks remains true.</p>
<p>I don't believe at all in AA, i think its horrible and incredibly racist and puts people in places they don't deserve. </p>
<p>The minorities I have seen that had good grades and have gotten into good schools, have gotten there on their own merit. AA usually doesn't play a huge role for these people and they go to university and compete with whites and do very well.</p>
<p>They you have the people who are put into colleges they don't deserve to go to and they usually either drop out or fail.</p>
<p>I lived in the same economic conditions as everyone of my classmates, I did everything they did and I was a honors student. I am the product of a single mother who worked for a little over 20K a year to support me and my brother in one of the most expensive cities to live in, in the world. She refused govt assistance and I turned out great. I had the same education as all of these other people and some of them had much lower gpas than myself but got into schools like NYU and other top 50's. I instead went to a state U and the majority of them have either dropped out, gotten kicked out, changed school, are in jail or dead.</p>
<p>I have a 1 friend who I played football with who is still in college and he was raised similar to me. </p>
<p>I see at my U, tons of students who cant even handle a state U education, they come to the library and play boom boxes near the eop study center. Its pathetic and they are getting paid to go to school.</p>
<p>So screw AA. I with prominent Black conservatives on this one.</p>
<p>"I know what I see and have seen and most of the time, stereotypes of blacks remains true."</p>
<p>I'm black and I happen to be horrible at basketball, I hate rap music, I like to read, I don't have a father in jail, my name isn't LaQuisha, I was salutatorian of my class, graduated Cum Laude, I don't wear Baby Phat, I hate golden hoop earrings, I don't wear my hair in cornrolls, and I don't particularly like fried chicken.</p>
<p>So how about you suck on that for a while.</p>
<p>Ok and then as the majority of blacks today would call you white. You would not even be consider black where I live. sorry. you would be considered a outsider the same as a guy wearing hollister in the middle of the bronx in flip flops and khaki shorts.</p>
<p>Excuse me? I am not white, and anyone who calls me white is ignorant. What, because I'm educated and don't wear a certain type of clothing and I don't fit the stereotype that blacks are stupid, I'm not black? Since when did fitting a stereotype determine your race?</p>
<p>I AM BLACK. My ancestors were slaves, my family is black. I am sick of being called "white" simply because I am an intelligent and educated woman. I don't give a flying **** where you're from. I don't care who thinks I am "white" because I know the truth- I am a proud black woman and black blood runs through my veins, and I am damn proud of it!!</p>
<p>But now I understand why you think this way Mr.Horse, from your response to this thread: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-confidential-cafe/545095-fight-racism.html#post1060780322%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-confidential-cafe/545095-fight-racism.html#post1060780322</a></p>
<p>"I think racism is good and can be a good motivator. It creates inequality and makes people hungry."</p>
<p>Yeah, nice quote Mr "I'm not racist" and "AA should be destroyed"</p>
<p>Just an FYI that the phrase "reverse racism" is racist in itself.</p>
<p>Who says racism is supposed to only go one way?</p>
<p>Its not me calling you white its your fellow race.</p>
<p>Stop with the generalizations- I've been called white by both blacks AND whites. In fact, it was usually the whites who said it! And one of my friends was bullied by a group of hispanic girls because she acted "white" instead of acting "black."</p>
<p>yeah ok. please they even said the same crap on CNN Black in America, they spent a half hour on it.</p>
<p>Blacks do it, but this doesn't exclude anybody else. I don't need some CNN program to tell me otherwise. I don't need a tv show to tell me what it's like to be black in America because I live it every day.</p>
<p>A CC Affirmative Action debate at its finest.</p>
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<p>That is true to some extent, because I can't just make up an arbitrary stereotype about a group and expect it to stick. For example, "College athletes are the most dedicated scholars!" is not going to stick.</p>
<p>But where you're wrong is in believing that these characteristics that led to the creation of stereotypes are somehow natural and organic, and therefore should not be studied and rectified by the aid of government. Black people are stereotyped as poor, lazy, and ignorant. Well golly, do you think that just happened out of thin air? What do you think happens after centuries of slavery and systematic discrimination? Don't give me that BS about how slavery ended eons ago. Jim Crow, as well as institutional discrimination, lived on robustly afterwards, and even continues today (see subprime loan crisis). </p>
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<p>Well said. Just a bunch of bitter kids who had their entitlement complex punctured by their rejection to the Ivies and are now taking it out on the mythical college version of the welfare queen. Lee Atwater and Ronald Reagan would be proud.</p>