This video was heart wrenching.
Here you have a group of students pointing out, quite eloquently I might add, the incredibly low number of African-American male students enrolled at UCLA.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/ucla-black-enrollment-freshmen_n_4242213.html
The ban on Affirmative Action in college and university admissions has resulted in a marked decrease in the number of Black and Hispanic students in these institutions. Check out the article below for some more scary statistics.
http://www.psmag.com/education/affirmative-action-bans-who-gets-hurt-26955/
The whole Affirmative Action argument to ban it's use in admissions is crazy to me.
It's not for admitting students who are not qualified, but it is for broadening the scope of the criteria used when admitting students, understanding that the kids of color have, more often than not, taken different paths to reach their goals.
It is also understanding that skewed admissions have been on the books forever. Think about the students of heavy donors or legacies. They absolutely get preferential treatment. I'm not saying deny these folks, but understand the playing field is not, and chances are, never will be, level for them. They will always have the upper hand. Is anyone protesting that? Should we?
This whole Tea Party movement came about because of some folks declaring they "want to take their country back." Back from what or from whom? We are a nation of immigrants, mostly voluntary, but for that select group of us with brown skin, we had the misfortune of being forcibly brought over to build this great land.
Oh, but how soon we forget.
We forget the 200 plus years of slavery.
There are those that say the debt has been paid. We must move on.
Yes, we must move on, but the ripple effect of slavery lives on, and we are foolish to think otherwise.
Using Affirmation Action in the admission process seems to be (or have been) a small price to pay for the atrocities leveled for having the misfortune of being born with brown skin.
I thank God for my brown skin, but we must always remember the heavy burden that has been paid because of it.
Here you have a group of students pointing out, quite eloquently I might add, the incredibly low number of African-American male students enrolled at UCLA.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/ucla-black-enrollment-freshmen_n_4242213.html
The ban on Affirmative Action in college and university admissions has resulted in a marked decrease in the number of Black and Hispanic students in these institutions. Check out the article below for some more scary statistics.
http://www.psmag.com/education/affirmative-action-bans-who-gets-hurt-26955/
The whole Affirmative Action argument to ban it's use in admissions is crazy to me.
It's not for admitting students who are not qualified, but it is for broadening the scope of the criteria used when admitting students, understanding that the kids of color have, more often than not, taken different paths to reach their goals.
It is also understanding that skewed admissions have been on the books forever. Think about the students of heavy donors or legacies. They absolutely get preferential treatment. I'm not saying deny these folks, but understand the playing field is not, and chances are, never will be, level for them. They will always have the upper hand. Is anyone protesting that? Should we?
This whole Tea Party movement came about because of some folks declaring they "want to take their country back." Back from what or from whom? We are a nation of immigrants, mostly voluntary, but for that select group of us with brown skin, we had the misfortune of being forcibly brought over to build this great land.
Oh, but how soon we forget.
We forget the 200 plus years of slavery.
There are those that say the debt has been paid. We must move on.
Yes, we must move on, but the ripple effect of slavery lives on, and we are foolish to think otherwise.
Using Affirmation Action in the admission process seems to be (or have been) a small price to pay for the atrocities leveled for having the misfortune of being born with brown skin.
I thank God for my brown skin, but we must always remember the heavy burden that has been paid because of it.
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