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..

[gerundio]

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.

Well racists for one won't enjoy the diversity, but they may learn some tolerance by the time they're done with school.

And by having diversity doesn't mean you have to discuss race. The point of diversity is to bring more diversity to a campus. What better way then to learn about a person and his or her background than by living with them? Someone who had a different experience growing up will have different ideas and provide a different side to an argument -- and the issue being argued doesn't have to be race, gender, sexuality, or religion. Different upbringings and different cultures cause people to have different ideas in everything -- in the food they eat, the way they dress, the music they listen to, and the things they value in life. You can learn A LOT from things like these. And I am not talking about learning more about astrophysics or other classroom ****, I mean things about life that many people miss out on.

Obviously the percentage of people who "succeed" in college will be lower today than 20 years ago. Just look around you. The frenzy over the college process that exists today did not exist 20 years ago. More people from more places, from both genders, and from more ethnic and financial backgrounds are applying to college today.