Homeless ppl, feel bad for them? Options

[mouse_3k]

ok I am watching America's Most Wanted and there was this story about this gang tht would take homeless ppl and make them slaves, making them sell drugs 24/7 and if they thought the homeless ppl didnt work hard enough, they would kill them. they did this re-inactment about it and it showed this poor old homeless guy begging the gang for food and the gang thru chinese food at him and the homeless guy would eat the scraps. i get so sad when things like this happen to the homeless cause they are so harmless and real needy (not a bad thing). I feel sooo bad now after i saw tht re-inactment. I cant even go to DC cause there are homeless ppl and i just will feel so bad for them. I always bring like $10 when i do go to DC so i could get the homeless some food or something.

is there NE one else tht feel bad for the homeless? i hear alot of ppl hate them cause they think all homeless are drunkies and druggies and all..

[ComradeRed]

If someone doesn't like something, then how did he gain from it?

Race is social fiat ... It's a non-issue that peopel use to avoid discussing the real issues. All I'd learn is that there are people who use non-issues to cloud real issues, and that society somehow sends them to good universities through AA.

You haven't addressed my argument except with an allegory... but let's say you're right. Let's say I do learn more at a racially diverse school.

Even if that's true, I'd rather GET IN to a homogenous school than get rejected at a racially diverse one. Wouldn't you?

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Ah and one more thing: Back in the 1970s, when there was no affirmative action in the Ivies, and the Ivies were primarily white, a higher percentage of Ivy League graduates went on to top medical and law fields (Harvard's Class of 1980 had 27% entering law school... compared to only 15% in the Class of 2003).

Today, now that we DO have racial diversity at the Ivies, FEWER members of their graduating classes end up at top graduate fields. The Ivies haev the MOST affirmative action of any school (Harvard's acceptance rate for white students is 11%, and its acceptance rate for black students is 35%). If racial diversity REALLY helped a school, you'd expect MORE of the students to be successful, not less.

In 1960s before the Ivy League affirmative action craze, the schools where students made the most money in their first jobs were Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Today those schools are MIT, CalTech, and U-Cal Berkeley. At none of those schools is there a strong affirmative action program, whereas the affirmative action programs are very strong at the Ivy League schools.

The percentage of black people at Dartmouth is 9% ... compared to 0.7% for all of New Hampshire (i.e. there are THIRTEEN times more black students at Dartmouth than there should be, if the school accurately reflected the society). If the goal of affirmative action was to represent a cross section of society in its schools ... white students should get affirmative action. Likewise, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, and Brown all have higher percentages of black people than the cities they are in. The only Ivies where blacks are underrepresented compared to the local city are Yale, Columbia, and Penn, and even then it is close at Yale and Penn.

Here's detailed statistics, proving that African-Americans are in fact OVERREPRESENTED at the Ivy League schools --> College numbers are from the colleges themselves, state numbers from the US Census Bureau:

*Remember that plus or minus 25% is within statistical margin of error

African-Americans at Dartmouth: 9%
African-Americans in New Hampshire: 0.7%
Status: African-Americans overrepresented by 1186% (Whites should get AA alot)

African-Americans at Brown: 6%
African-Americans in Rhode Island: 4%
Status: African-Americans overrepresented by 67% (Whites should get AA)

African-Americans at Harvard: 8%
African-Americans in Massachusetts: 5%
Status: African-Americans overrepresented by 60% (Whites should get AA)

African-Americans at Cornell: 5%
African-Americans in Upstate New York: 5%
Status: African-Americans representation ideal (Nobody should get AA)

African-Americans at Yale: 8%
African-Americans in Connecticut: 10%
Status: African-Americans underrepresented by 20% (Nobody should get AA)

African-Americans at Columbia: 9%
African-Americans in New York: 15%
Status: African-Americans underrepresented by 40% (Blacks should get AA)

African-Americans at Penn: 6%
African-Americans in Pennsylvania: 10%
Status: African-Americans underrepresented by 40% (Blacks should get AA)

African-Americans at Princeton: 8%
African-Americans in New Jersey: 14%
Status: African-Americans underrepresented by 42% (Blacks should get AA)

African-Americans are actually OVERREPRESNETED at half of the IVies ... certainly not disadvantaged.