<p>@ BeautifulNerd
i agree totally. trust me, im not one to sit here and act like AA wont help me get into college, it will. but to hear from classmates that it will be the ONLY reason i get into college is so ridiculously offensive. it totally undermines all the hard work i’ve put in since freshman year, all efforts to be as active and engaging in the clubs that interest me in school as possible, all the late nights i’ve spend studying for science (which again, i hate so much lol), etc… plus, even with AA, its still extremely difficult to get into the schools that most people on this board wanna go to. if AA was the only thing that gets blacks into college, then a forum like this, that clearly has lots of smart and ambitious black people, would cease to exist, we’d all be complacent instead of hardworking in high school since you know, AA’s surely gonna come in and save the day lol</p>
<p>@aplages
hmmm, i dont really think its fair to imply that im unreasonable just because our views on this are different( which is totally ok, i honestly did not expect every person on this board to agree with me on the point i was trying to make just because most of us are black). yes, the movement for the expansion of women’s rights was extremely important, im not denying that. however, i just think that a lot of the rights that they have today and that they fought for during these movements actually came to fruition because of AA. i don’t feel a lot of colleges really wanted women and minorities on their campuses, but eventually they had to, and i dont believe that it was the women’s rights leaders who directly changed their mind on this, but moreso the fact that AA actually became law and they were forced to.</p>
<p>@ crimsonchin68
you make a great point about it being fair for the admissions process to stay in accordance with the general population, i’ve actually always had that view too lol. but that’s why i think the admissions officers should be doing a little bit better. the census bureau determined in 2007 that blacks made up 13.5% of the national population. right now most colleges are doing 10% or a little less than that.</p>
<p>P.S-you know, reading back at the things i said, i realize that i might have came off as a “white women hater”. ■■■■■ couldn’t be farther from the truth. and to be totally honest, i was initially inclined to try and prove that by saying that my best friend is a white REALLY conservative female(which is true), but then i realized the equivalent of that would be like the white person who when accused of racism emphatically says “no,i can’t be a racist, i have black friends!” so im not sure how to really prove that to you guys lmao…</p>