will AA help me into columbia?

steve10c
Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:12:22 +0000

The fact that people care more about their own culture is part of the problem. Its the ideology that originally created racism in the first place. We should be pushing everyone away from thinking of themselves in terms of “I’m white” or “I’m black” and affirmative action and “[insert ethnicity] studies” push us right back towards racism, only in politically correct form.

I’m Irish and I don’t know anything more about Ireland really. I know about the troubles, but I also know about the night commuters in Uganda, about poverty in India and the Missions of Charity, about Darfur and the Congo, about the heat wave (perhaps related to global warming) that killed 15,000 people in Europe, about ghettos and rural poverty in the U.S. and the working poor in my own community.

We need to be global citizens and we need colleges to emphasize being global citizens, not being racially discriminating, ethnically divided people who embrace the apparent differences in cultural priorities.

Close the gap. Don’t accept it.