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Applying to College African-American Students
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<p>Assuming you are white/asian

  1. When you get out of college and are applying for your first job, you will get a boost over me because you have a white or asian name and I have a black-sounding name
  2. When you buy your first house, your real-estate owners will show you a house in a better neighborhood than they will show me, the houses I want to buy will not be for sale.
  3. If you are female, a man we both want to date will pick you over me.
  4. when we are in the university, I will have to work harder to prove my intelligence to my professors, while you will be considered smarter.
  5. If you are female, people will tell you that you are beautiful. ( No one has ever told me that , honestly, yet)
  6. when you want to go to the school dance, you will easily find a date. I can’t find one.
  7. when you want to buy a car, car dealers will automatically give you a better price. even if I am just as educated and intelligent as you. ( Malcolm Galdwell did a study on this)
  8. you will receive better health care from your doctor. I know someone whose doctor bamboozled through a surgery for her b/c she was stereotyped as a fat black woman. she’s dead now.
  9. If I get robbed and you are robbed, police will answer you more quickly than they answer me.
  10. I am more likely (probably twice) to be stopped by police than you.
  11. I commit a minor crime, I am more likely to serve jail time.
  12. If I kill someone, I will end up on death row more often than you do.
  13. And after wading through all that racism, fighting everything–when i get home to my kids, my daughter will want the white barbie doll because she’s white and prettier. </p>

<p>My sister, right now,is busy trying to be as white as possible-letting her hair down long. Every time, I go downstairs to the computer I find a computer fashion game in which the model is ALWAYS white. Never black. What do I tell her? Do I tell her that black is beautiful</p>

<p>when I know it isn’t?</p>

<p>Really, nuclear penguin, so what if I get a boost? You will be getting that boost and more your entire life. Do I feel bad for getting AA.</p>

<p>Not at all. I 'm still going to have a lot more problems to deal with. thank you.</p>

<p>edit* you are right, dignified. I didn’t see your post.</p>

<p>I think with these final statements, I’m done.</p>