Minorities take our places! Sound Off!!!

jvon2432
Wed, 09 May 2007 20:52:12 +0000

i just started reading this thread and haven’t read it all but most of it, i would like to place my input… before adding my input i want to say that I am a white catholic from an upper middle class family… i am one of the least racist people you will find pretty much all my best friends are minorities (black, asian, and mexican)

i think we have to first define what makes kids “disadvantaged”… it is not their race that makes them disadvantaged so why should race have anything to do with the college selection process? Affirmative action simply by race, in my opinion, is discrimanation. i keep seeing people referring to our history as a reason for affirmative action–our history is done and we’ve learned from it. none of the african americans today have faced the horrors of slavery and i have not put anyone under the horrors of slavery so what is the need to “make up for it” with affirmative action

a disadvantaged child, in my opinion, grows up in a poor neighborhood and b/c of that receives an inferior education to middle and upper class children. if tax dollars were all pooled together by state and distributed equally to each school, then we would not have anyone who begins academically “disadvantaged” and there would be no need for affirmative action and then ND could accept entirely by merit which I think should be the case.

like many have said, what about the white child growing up in the ghetto? where is his advantage? people have said that they take in consideration one’s socioeconomic background, but this doesn’t even compare to the way they consider one’s race.

i agree that those who are at a disadvantage deserve more opportunities so why not work to get rid of that disadvantage rather than trying to even it out by preferential treatment. people need to stop justifying affirmative action with our nations history. in this generation, our history is sad but over with–it should not be justification for a white getting rejected and a minority getting accepted with lower stats

lastly, for those of you who think this is about “white entitlement”… what about when blacks were discriminated against and couldn’t receive the job they wanted that they worked so hard for? they got upset and they changed it, which it should have been changed, but isn’t it a little hypocritical now to allow minorities to have a headstart when they were fighting for equality in the first place? in my opinion, MLK jr. would not want blacks to have a headstart he would want blacks to have the same opportunity to get into ND and to get in through hard work

one last point, for those of you who argue affirmative action is to make up for our nations history, then why aren’t i involved in it? i am an irish catholic–a group who was greatly discriminated against by the KKK and the average white protestant in generaly. i am not reaping any benefits–affirmative action has good intentions, but i disagree strongly with the argument that it makes up for our nation’s history

i really hope i didn’t offend anyone, those are just my opinions… i’d like to hear what you guys have to say… like i said, my minority friends and i talk about this peacefully all the time so i hope this thread can stay peaceful!