<p>People may get angry about what I am about to say, but I feel it needs to be said and I feel that I have a good explanation about this situation. I am the son of an African immigrant father and a Trinidadian immigrant mother, and this situation has been bothering me as of late.</p>
<p>I will refer to black-american as blacks that have been here for generations and african-americans as blacks that have parents that are immigrants or are immigrants themselves.</p>
<p>I feel that the reason why top schools are doing this is because it is the only way to maintain ivy league standards while at the same time having a diverse student population. It would be extremely hard to have a 90% or above rate of black-americans in all the top schools without significantly lowering the standards more than they have already been lowered. There just doesn't seem to be that many high achieving black-americans to have significant numbers in the top schools or for them all to be black-americans. To me this is very obvious even in my own life.</p>
<p>My school has always been diverse with a good mix of asians, whites, hispanics, and black/african-americans. It is so sad how the black-americans act I have become disgusted with them. There are NO smart black-americans in my school at all. They are all dumb, get bad test scores, bad grades, are loud and obnoxious, and just all around have an uneducated manner about them. They are always the loudest at assemblies and always the rudest in class. Ask the dumbest questions, and are always caught cheating or stealing something.</p>
<p>The smartest people in our school are the whites, asians(mostly koreans), and african-americans. The top 10 students or top 10% in our school over the years has always consisted of this mix. Even one of my best friends who is an African-American has done the "worst" out of his family gpa wise and he has a 3.7 the rest of his sisters have 4.0s and 3.9s with his eldest sister being salutatorian a couple years back. And to my knowledge a black-american has NEVER broken into these ranks. While they may be fun to hang out with, that is all they are good for because even too much contact with them and it will feel that your intelligence is being sapped from your mind. Most of the time they can't even speak proper english let alone have the standards to be admitted to an ivy league school with "fo sho this", and "where dat is", and "who he is". How they speak reeks of ignorance. And the only thing they can talk about are shoes, cars, and rap. I have NEVER IN MY LIFE had a deep conversation with a black-american, while I can do it regularly with my white, asian, and african-amercian friends.</p>
<p>I also feel that whether they want to admit it or not there is an elitist attitude among the ivy league, and they might feel that it is better to admit an african-american that usually has accomplished a lot more anyway than their black-american counterparts because of the stigma being black-american carries today. Even among the african community many can't stand black-americans. Many regard them as simpletons that give the rest of us black people a bad name and as people that can't think past their last drug sale or ho they slapped. Even my father HATES black-americans. </p>
<p>My father regularly tells me this: ** I don't care if you marry a white girl, an asian girl, or a hispanic girl, or african-amercian girl, but NEVER bring no black-american girl named Laquanda that's always shaking her head, can barely speak proper english, has no education past high school and is loud and rude, because I will never accept her, I don't care how much you love her." ** There is a general disdain among african-americans especially because of how black-americans make us look. My before mentioned friends father has two Phds and has written several books and his mother is also very educated, my father has a masters in biology and my mother is also very educated. And they all speak perfect english with little to no accent. Yet despite this white people will talk down to them as if they are idiots and don't know what they are talking about. While this angers our parents, they more blame black-americans than white people because if you are being spoon fed a somewhat well founded image of ignorance of black people daily, you can't help but feel that those people are ignorant.</p>
<p>I don't see this practice being stopped by the ivy league any time soon and I in fact see it increasing greatly in the future. Because with affirmative-action under such hot debate and its most probable outlawing in the U.S in the future. The only way to have a high amount of black students while still keeping the standards the same is to accept more immigrants and and african-american kids.</p>