"I wish I was White" Options

[mouse_3k]

Today, we had the special friday announcements on the TV. So theres this black girl that came from the heart of Africa. she is so whitewashed but we have this writing contest and the title is suppose to be *I Wonder Why* and she goes on the announcements and says "I wonder why im black. Why cant I just be white and fit in"

It pissed every black person in school and all the white people said it was only a joke. To me, it made me sooo mad. just because shes from the motherland and all and shes basically degrading the black population at school. now the blacks at school, there is about 20-30 blacks in a school of 1,200. Now I honestly think me and other black people have every right to be mad.

What do you think? If you are black, would you be angry too? if not state why

[islandkiss]

I loathe assimilates. I hate it when people degrade their own heritage and use it as an excuse. I mean come on, seriously, get over it

[ComradeRed]

I loathe assimilates. I hate it when people degrade their own heritage and use it as an excuse. I mean come on, seriously, get over it

What heritage? That girl played no more of a role in creating black culture than in creating white culture--either way she is assimilating.

i dont think shes just talking about schools. considering whites out number every race in america by alot, maybe thats what she means?

20-30 / 1200 is about 2%--which is equivalent to McCandless, Pennsylvania. The black population in the whole US is something like 12%. That leads me to believe that the author of this thread goes to an extremely preppy school and is focusing on these superficial signs of "black pride" when the real sociological problems that African-Americans face within the United States are far greater than a single girl expressing her desire to be white. All in all, the insecurity of suburban blacks, who, materially although perhaps not socially, are at the top of American society, is incredibly harmful to the African-Americans in the United States in general and its image in the media, which exerts a tremendous influence on public opinion.

^heh, i know several Asian girls going out with white guys

Yeah, I don't think it was right of her to do that maybe, but  agree with Sammi

There are more Asian females in the US than males; so of course a lot of Asian girls are going to go out with white guys...

On the contrary, the extra points are true. You get 5, Asians get 3, etc. etc. I'm not lying. It's not just in Indiana. It's a nationwide thing. Please, Indiana would probably be the last state to want to impose affirmative action laws....There's a big hubub right where I live about race issues, and I'm posting a topic on it tomorrow once I gather sufficient information for you all.

According to statistics from Berkeley before the end of affirmative action in California, being black was worth around 300 SAT points (and keep in mind, this is 300 SAT points out of 1600, not out of 2400)

Of course, if I were on the admissions committee of a college, I would admit a white person over an equally qualified black person--and the reason is that other colleges use affirmative action, so that black person probably got into comparable colleges, whereas the white person probably got rejected at those colleges and thus it is far more likely that the white person would place a higher relative value on getting into my college as he has fewer choices without affirmative action.

hmmm, can i ask a question? what is the percentage of minorities compared to whites at UCLA? i mean, you make it seem all so common that the colleges would be chock full of minorities and 3% whites. and,  must i mention again that the big picture is, the only reason that some schools do this is because  they have such a small amount of blacks or hispanics etc, and with that, they dont get their federal funds. they arent doing this without benefit 

It's wrong to look at the big picture. We have to remember that these decisions affect people--not just statistics and percentages. A college with integrity should value fairness and the good of individual students above looking good for the US News and World Report. Blacks have a far higher admissions rate to top colleges. Over 40% of black students who apply to Harvard, for example, get in compared to just 10% of white students. Clearly, affirmative action is in more than full swing. If you want to increase minority enrollment, outreach--geting more black people to apply--is the way to do it, NOT through affirmative action policies, which just create a substandard pool and lead to discrimination on campus.