JoeB131
Diamond Member
Separate but equal? Where have I heard that one before?Also remember, my suggested approach would still give advantage to poorer blacks, who would compete within their own cohort.
And you say that you suppose poor white teens have a better support system, but that’s not true. Poor teens are in poor families for the same reason blacks teens are - a single, uneducated mother working night shifts at the diner (or whatever), and without the capacity or energy to “fight” for their kids.
And so? Frankly, we've watched the One Percent make war on those folks for the last 50 years.
It reminds me of the old joke. A Plutocrat, a Teabagger and a Welfare Mom go into a restaurant. The waiter brings out a plate of ten cookies, the Plutocrat wolfs down nine of them and says to the Teabagger, "That Welfare Queen wants half your cookie!!!"
It seems that you are trying to set up an argument against my very equitable proposal to change AA to one which is based on SES (along with academic success) rather than continue with a race-based policy. I would like to see all poor(er) kids, regardless of color, who were studious, disciplined, and bright enough to be among the top 5% of their class get a free ride to State U.
Um... okay. Again, should I point out that UIC, which was specifically built as the "inner city" college to serve inner city youth, today has a black enrollment of 9%. This is what happens when you aren't actively pushing for equality.
As an aside, there are other ways to formulate this. This “5% group” could also be granted the dollars equivalent to State U tuition to apply towards the tuition at any college in the country, to which they gain admittance.
Again, doesn't really solve the problem, does it? While I think there should be more economic opportunities for the working class (you know, the people the One Percent have been screwing for the last 50 years), it doesn't solve the overall problem of the levers of power being overwhelmingly white in this country.
The problem isn't just the openly racist admissions director or HR Manager or CEO. The problem is the institutionalized racism that most white folks don't even think about.
I have told this story before, but it bears repeating.
In 2012, my department saw three members of our 8 member team leave over the course of the summer.
A Chinse-American woman who had been with the company for 10 years
An African American woman who had been with the company for two years.
A white intern who had been with the company for six months.
Now, the General Manager was a busy guy, or so he told us. So when we held farewell lunches for these three ladies, guess which one he re-arranged his schedule for to be there?
Guess which two he couldn't be bothered with?
This same Manager would later let go of an African-American mother to create a position for his drinking buddy, who had absolutely no qualifications to do the job he was hired for. So I ended up doing my work, her work, and some of his work.