Universities Record Drop In Black Admissions

SV2
Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:30:46 +0000

Momsdream,

You said in post 113: “you have not been part of the history of this country as it relates to you race being treated as nothing more than property so that this country could prosper.”

I hope you are aware that there is a long history of discrimination against and exploitation of Asians in this country, which began in the 1800’s against the Chinese with, for example, special miners’ taxes against them, exclusionary immigration acts that were not equalized until 1965, forced segregation into Chinese-only living quarters, dangerous and vastly unequal treatment of Chinese workers building the railroads and levees that were so important to the growth of this country, etc. Japanese-Americans had their lands and properties taken and were put in internment camps during WWII. True this is not exactly the same as slavery, but one does not need to diminish the historical experiences of other ethnic groups in this country in order to support affirmative action.

http://www.pbs.org/ancestorsintheamericas/timeline.html

http://www.asian-nation.org/racism.shtml

And here is another link about stereotype threat:

http://www.ascd.org/cms/objectlib/ascdframeset/index.cfm?publication=http://www.ascd.org/publications/ed_lead/200411/toc.html
Click on The Threat of Stereotype link on that page.