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“But isn’t it black people who do this to other black people? I’m not aware of non-black people discouraging black students from achieving.”
The phrase “acting white” is only used by black students, yes. But the general discouragement of achievement of blacks is not only done by blacks. People say “You’re not like most black kidsI know, you’re a good one” and things of that ilk. I mean even this week people were surprised that I was ranked so highly in my class, despite the fact that I give off the obvious nerd persona (me with glasses AND braces was not a good time).
“Certain names are potential liabilities no matter what race. If I had a girl, I wouldn’t name her Cinnamon, Sapphire, or Destiny, not because those names are associated with any particular race, but because the first thing a lot of people will think of is pole-dance rather than CEO.”
Cinnamon and Sapphire aren’t common black names. Destiny is, Asia, Aliya (in many different spellings), Domanique, and obviously the stereotypical names ending in Quisha, quana, or whatever. And no, those aren’t stripper names. And I’m pretty sure Jamal, Malik, and Jaquan aren’t stripper names, but you can continue trying to push your incorrect assertion if you want. If you want to deny the Bertrand study, then fine. There’s still the fact that people were more critical of resumes after learning that their applicant was black. I’ll link to the study if I find it.
“You complain that you are oppressed by racial stereotyping, so your solution is to stereotype people by race?”
No…I said that’s the way colleges go about it. And if you want to skip over the various examples of bias in the legal system, education field, and business fields where I showed you being black is a distinct advantage to make me come off as a ranter, then that’s a “you” problem.
“I also believe reforming the legal/job market does more good than AA”
I didn’t mean anything by this, it was a poor choice of words. I hope that racism in hiring processes ends, I don’t know how I would approach it. I just didn’t want to only address one part of their response.
“Also I think the term African-American is more or less ridiculous because it allows white SA to benefit from AA”
The person in this thread that just called a White South African, African-American…
“Wouldn’t it be more sensible to apply rectification at the K-12 level? Especially since the majority of students don’t go on to college.”
Sure. Why not?
“If you want to argue that it won’t kill other people if they don’t get into Harvard, then by the same token it shouldn’t kill you either.”
It’s not, my stats are fine, and I’m not applying to Harvard. But if blacks suffer a myriad of disadvantages in life due to race, I’m going to take advantage of the few benefits we’re given. It’s just an issue that the same people complaining about affirmative action are the same ones that don’t see issues with racism against blacks in the status quo. But I’m sure you’re not one of those people.
“I do indeed believe Blacks experience harsher racism than other racial minority groups, but your arguments above just comes off as an incoherent rant.”
Oh, it was hard to see considering you either ignored the instances of racism you didn’t have a response to, or tried to make weak responses to the arguments you did have a response to. But thank you for your input on how my post tha explained why Affirmative Action is nothing compared to the institutionalized racism that the majority has put onto blacks came off as an incoherent rant. I’ll try to present my posts in a better manner in the future that meets your tough quality standards, but in my defense I did type it on my phone.