<p>**^ thanks al and colleebound for making this GPA/STA thing clear.</p>
<p>Did they put George Bush with a green roommate? Is it why he apparently did not do well in college? </p>
<p>If I get a redneck for roommate, will that help me get higher grades?</p>
<p>Stupid study. The lamest students in my high school were the white American kids. They were lazy and gross. They never made an effort and there was nothing about their attitude toward school or toward life in general that could inspire greatness or academic excellence. They did not care about their lives because they knew that once they become the reject of society, their country’ well fare program would give them a hand and an unemployment check.</p>
<p>I would have get my diploma from jail if having a white kid as a roommate could make me have better grades. This of course does not apply to all white kids so unlike this stupid study I am not going to generalize. </p>
<p>In my HS, the greatest students were us Eastern European, the Asian students were looking for challenge too, then we had the African students who were bright as well as the Easter European and very inspirational.</p>
<p>African Americans are not at a disadvantage academically because of the color of their skin but because of their society and the way they grew up. Look at it that way: Almost everyone is surprised when some African American student get good grades because no one expect them to do anything good but drugs and gangster rap. It is such a surprise that if one of them gets into a good college, some CC members who get rejected scream “AFFIRMATIVE ACTION”. It is even such a greater shock for some of you that you try to justify their excellent performance in college to his WHITE roommate. Is it possible that an African American student could be smart but decide to act like the little gangster of the ghetto because no one except something good from him and when he does something good, no one attribute it to his own merit but rather to the pity that society has for him aka AFFIRMATIVE ACTION or the holly influence of the WHITE kid next door. </p>
<p>What a sick society? </p>
<p>What a sick society? </p>
<p>It is stupid to say that BLACK people this, BLACK people that. Because a lot of the black kids are not African AMERICAN or Black American. A lot of them are from African countries or the ones who were born here have 1st, 2nd, generation of African Immigrants as parents.</p>
<p>It is possible that their home is still dominated by the dominant African culture which encourage every child to always strive for academic excellence .From my personal understanding, when some of these kids get into a good college, they don’t get the acceptance because society pity them through Affirmative Action, they don’t get high grades because their white roommates groomed them. They beat the system because their African /immigrant parents know the importance of education. They know that back home in Ghana, Nigeria, Gambia or Ethiopia, there is no such thing as Well fare. So they teach their kids at an early age to strive for excellence because if they fail, there will be no Uncle Sam to take care of them. They know that they are the children of immigrants so they know that their parents can get kicked out of this country at any time if a mistake was ever to happen. So they study hard to succeed whether their parents were a janitor or a phd holder. </p>
<p>This society is a very shallow one because African American can’t get merit for their hard work. It is even sadder that they think that all black people are doomed to fail in life like the African American; hence they put them in the same box.</p>
<p>It must be very sad to be black in America because no matter what you do, as long as it is not gangsta rap, drug dealing , you effort will need an explanation. And the answer will be either because the system had pity of your skin color or because your white friend was a good role model.</p>
<p>The next study will find that most of white kids ( especially these Hollywood people) who died of overdose were close friend or shared a room or an apartment with a Black student. </p>
<p>чёрт! проклятье! what a country!! , God Bless America**</p>