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Originally Posted by JCC
Because educational institutions like Harvard don't say "Come here, intellectually inferior Cherokee who cannot tie his own laces! Allow us to pile lavish opportunities for success upon you, while you try and remember to differentiate your left from your right!". People who get into Harvard have the brains. What's more, there's an enormous gap between the education standards of minorities compared to whites because minorities generally live in poor areas, so any movement towards an equal opportunities style scheme tries to give people leverage out of poor areas, and those apply to poor white people too, but you don't get those if you're not smart enough to warrant them. You're buying into this passive racism shit of "They're taking our jobs, they're flooding our schools, equal opportunities is reverse racism" etc.
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I disagree. I don't believe I'm being a passive racist. I have no issues with anyone. I don't think minorities are taking jobs away from me (or anyone else) or that equal opportunities are reverse racism. What I am saying is that people, companies, colleges, etc, should not just choose someone just to fill their racial quota. It should be equal and the same for everybody, otherwise it's not really equal opportunity!
I also think America should set a higher standard for education, instead of continuously lowering the standards just so people can pass. IE: If you don't get it the first time you go through 7th grade, I guess you just need to repeat it until you can pass... Not "oh well let me lower the exam requirements for you" Everyone has state exams that they have to take. Those state exams are all the same. I've lived in various states, in various areas, from poor ghettos to suburbans & I've gone to public and private schools. The only difference that I noticed was that in the Private schools, they required you to do more things, and in public schools it was extra credit/optional. Private schools go through a large number of things very quickly, and in public schools it was more relaxed & if you didn't get something done on schedule, oopsie daisy there's always tomorrow. That's more the teacher's fault than the educational requirements. I've never heard that poor people's educational requirements were less than anyone else's, so if that's true, that's news to me!.. And something definitely needs to be done to fix that, because it's horseshit!
I'm also not sitting there saying Native Americans are stupid, like you're accusing me of. I think Native Americans are just as intelligent as anyone else. I have Native American blood! I can't sit there & say that they are stupid, and I wouldn't call any person stupid, just because of their ethnicity! There's so many brilliant doctors and historical figures and musicians and just so many talented people that are minorities. I would never in a million years sit there & say that anyone was stupid because of their ethnicity. That is BS! Honestly, I wouldn't care if Harvard had nothing but people that were minority races in it. If they met the same requirements as everyone else had to & earned their way to that school, and the university wasn't just filling their quota for the year, then I would be extremely happy for them, just like I would be for anyone who got into a good school. I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying (or trying to say). I just don't think that giving a free handout to someone is cool. If you select a person that's a minority, because they meet the educational requirements and all the other requirements that everyone else has to meet, then that's fine. If you are selecting someone that's a minority, just because you are required to meet a yearly quota, then that is not right & they don't deserve a free handout, just because of their ethnicity.