RACISM discussion (w/o Steve, thank you)

[Koolaid]

Alot of people want to ignore the benefits of affirmative action, and try to make it sound like only black people benefit from it. Truth is everyone gets a better education when they are put into a true to life multi-cultural enviroment as opposed to a completely white upper-middle class educational system that only gets a student familar with dealing with one type of person. Instead all people talk about is the white guys who got turned away.

[DennyMcLain]

Affirmative Action is merely a bandage covering the real problem: inner city educational opportunities. Lack of books. Lack of computers. Lack of qualified teachers. Lack of hope.

[Uncle Mxy]

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/07/25/38410.htm

Wimberly's mother is the school's "certified media specialist." She says in the federal discrimination complaint that after her daughter had been told she would be valedictorian, the mother heard "in the copy room that same day, other school personnel expressed concern that Wimberly's status as valedictorian might cause a 'big mess.'"
McGehee Secondary School is predominantly white, and 46 percent African-American, according to the complaint. Bratton says that the day after she heard the "big mess" comment, McGehee Principal Darrell Thompson, a defendant, told her "that he decided to name a white student as co-valedictorian," although the white student had a lower G.P.A.

GEezus...

[lospistones]

[UxKa]

^^ quality stuff

[Vinny]

WTG LP!!!! Where you been man??

[lospistones]

It took me a while to figure out that I'm LP. Derp.
and I've been lurking wishing that more people posted here.