1/32 Native American AA nonsense

fritz799
Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:39:55 +0000

Whether you’re in favor of AA or not, I think we could all agree that a person who is really a member of an under-represented minority would be certifiable not to check the box. My nephew, however, would be lying to do that–he doesn’t “identify” as a NA–that’s crap.

We’ve pretty much solved this problem: He’s a legacy at the school he wants to attend. His mother, father and grandfather all went there. Hell, his grandfather played football there. If he checks the legacy box and the NA box–that’s gonna get him caught really quick, as none of the other folks in our family who went to that school have ever identified as anything but white.

It’s not exactly what I was hoping for him to learn out of this mess…but c’est la vie.

As for the poster who said that kids don’t get into top schools fairly–that’s nonsense. I went to top undergrad and law schools. I didn’t have an “in” of any kind, and we didn’t have a lot of cash either (bad public schools all the way up to undergrad). My husband got in the same way. And lots of our friends did, too, I bet.

Work hard. Be smart. You’ll do fine.