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News: Blacks Inferior Academically: US Judge Claims
Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Originally posted by LoKoPaNdA
This is about affirmative action and I don't get why people don't understand why affirmative action even exists. Some groups are unprivileged and thus their academic achievements are greater than those of her better off peers
White student with parents who make 200k a year, lives in a nice suburban house, took SAT prep courses, has money for books, travels, study aid, goes to top notch high school vs minority students who face hardship
Like, it's not the same
The quote is a gross generalization by that judge who doesn't have the mentality of someone living this century
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Ok! We had a talk once and someone brought up a good point:
If I'm making about the same grades as a privileged white student, in my current circumstance, then clearly I worked harder to get there. So spare me with this "doesn't deserve to be here" mess. Wanting to split hairs over +/- 300 SAT points w/ no regard to background.
Anyway, affirmative action isn't even used outright like they think. "Affirmative action" is usually spoken of in general terms, but there's no singular policy or implementation of the ways in which affirmative action takes shape in government organizations, colleges and corporations.
In fact, the driving force in black admissions is colleges wanting to seem to have a more diverse student body, which is all done in the self-interest of the university to appeal to potential donors/college ranking publications/broader admissions pool, etc..
So much more than grades OR race goes into college admissions. And if they wanted pure grade based admissions, they would do just that. But that's clearly not the way to build a cohesive and dynamic learning environment.
Yet the girls wanna cry victim...
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Member Since: 12/17/2010
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Originally posted by Baha
Blacks have never excelled academically. It's truth.
Everything worth inventing was invented by white europeans. Every greatest scientists, mathematicians and engineers in the past 500 years have been those of western european descent. They basically created modern world.
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What have you accomplished in life? And why have I excelled academically? Why do many whites hate me for it? Why do i go to Ivy League school only to crush the competition?
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I'm not shocked. Serving Dred Scoot teas.
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
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Originally posted by Baha
I'm not white but I still respect whites for their contributions to science and technology. We live in world created by white man
It cannot be denied.
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PSA: Everyone turn off your lights. They're useless. Just another **** piece of technology.
Oh and sign off atrl as well could you please, the origins of music from black people is also worthless.
So glad we have such intelligent members to enlighten us, yay.
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Originally posted by MaRy
out of curisotity what is your ethnicity? it's true europeans are responsible for the industrial revolution, now good or bad you tell me, with climate change and environment destruction some might think it's not good...
but before them it was arabs, before them chinese and indians, egypt... it's cycical, not based on race but based on which countries are on top at that time... in a few years most of the discoveries will be made in China...
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Even before Industrial Revolution(which took place in19th century) Europe produced one of the greatest scientist in history:
Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Fermat, Toricelli, Leibnitz, Pascal etc.
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Originally posted by Baha
I'm not white but I still respect whites for their contributions to science and technology. We live in world created by white man
It cannot be denied.
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Not really. Different ethnicities have contributed to where we are now whether through manual labor or ingenuity. The reason you believe what you do is because white faces have been plastered across everything for us to absorb.
For example, did you know public schools in the American south was initiated by blacks who wanted their children to learn how to read in order to rise up in society? Poor whites were simply content with their day to day until they saw blacks doing something for themselves. So then they wanted it too.
Anyway, the reason "whites" advanced so much was due to cultural evolution. And it wasn't just European whites, it was any people who lived in the regions where trade of goods and ideas were facilitated (think Arabs and Asians and Northern Africans). Biological evolution takes waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more time to occur, so it's definitely not that blacks aren't genetically adept at learning, it's that in places like sub-Saharan Africa, they were left to their own devices to culturally evolve at their own pace as material and personal conflicts arose amongst them.
Take any child out of a poor African nation. Raise him in the cultural climate of the US or Europe and he'll perform just as well or better than any white kid.
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Member Since: 11/16/2010
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Originally posted by Baha
Still even to this day when there are several developed non-western countries such as Japan, Korea, China etc. majority of the revolutionary ideas and inventions are still made in the West.
World Wide Web, Mobile Phone, Google, Facebook, Notebook, Wi-fi, Bluetooth etc. Created by westerners.
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East Asians invented toothpaste. Clearly it doesn't help you, stink-mouth bitch!
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Originally posted by Baha
Even before Industrial Revolution(which took place in19th century) Europe produced one of the greatest scientist in history:
Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Fermat, Toricelli, Leibnitz, Pascal etc.
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The Greeks and Romans, who provide the foundation for Western civilization, learned everything from the Egyptians and people of the Fertile Crescent. Late on, the European Renaissance was largely based on concepts and ideas created by the Arabs and Persians. Literally the two most significant periods of European cultural history were spearheaded by the inventions of non-white people. No shade, but in the grand scheme of things the white man hasn't contributed much to history besides destruction and genocide. Wake up sis.
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Not surprised it was Scalia.
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Originally posted by Rihhyonce
The Greeks and Romans, who provide the foundation for Western civilization, learned everything from the Egyptians and people of the Fertile Crescent. Late on, the European Renaissance was largely based on concepts and ideas created by the Arabs and Persians. Literally the two most significant periods of European cultural history were spearheaded by the inventions of non-white people. No shade, but in the grand scheme of things the white man hasn't contributed much to history besides destruction and genocide. Wake up sis.
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Never contributed anything besides genocide? :facepalm:
But why the greatest philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, engineers, writers, painters were people of european descent?
Who made it to the moon? Who lauched the first man into space? Who ushered electronic age by inventing several crucial devices such as transistor, crt, microprocessor, induction motor, a/c converter, diode, flip-flops etc.? Europeans.
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Baha one question with all the statements you have been saying. Are you saying that all these contributions are due to their "race"? Just wondering because this whole thread you've been doing off on this idea it seems.
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Member Since: 11/28/2011
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Originally posted by cloudinthesky
You're really gonna sit here and act like you don't run into these articles defending racism and playing devil's advocate on the regular? nnn let me not today, I do not have the patience.
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right. It's getting redundant.
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Member Since: 11/16/2010
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Originally posted by Baha
Never contributed anything besides genocide? :facepalm:
But why the greatest philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, engineers, writers, painters were people of european descent?
Who made it to the moon? Who lauched the first man into space? Who ushered electronic age by inventing several crucial devices such as transistor, crt, microprocessor, induction motor, a/c converter, diode, flip-flops etc.? Europeans.
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Yes, that's right. It's quite easy to sit around and take other people's accomplishments just because they look like you and say "look what WE did." It's a lot harder to get off your ass and do anything yourself.
What have YOU contributed to the world?
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Member Since: 6/4/2010
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Originally posted by Baha
We live in world created by white man
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*Stolen by white men
They literally took credit for everything minorities did. You cannot be this dense.
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Member Since: 11/27/2010
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Originally posted by Baha
Never contributed anything besides genocide? :facepalm:
But why the greatest philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, engineers, writers, painters were people of european descent?
Who made it to the moon? Who lauched the first man into space? Who ushered electronic age by inventing several crucial devices such as transistor, crt, microprocessor, induction motor, a/c converter, diode, flip-flops etc.? Europeans.
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Those are the ones we know about and it was China who built the first calculator. Whole cultures were destroyed by the Europeans so naturally there would be limited records of advancements others made before them.
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Member Since: 11/28/2011
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Originally posted by Baha
Never contributed anything besides genocide? :facepalm:
But why the greatest philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, engineers, writers, painters were people of european descent?
Who made it to the moon? Who lauched the first man into space? Who ushered electronic age by inventing several crucial devices such as transistor, crt, microprocessor, induction motor, a/c converter, diode, flip-flops etc.? Europeans.
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So much sciences and mathematics came from Africa tho
As for the rest, that is just a matter of opinion.
But why does material inventions hold so much relevance to you?
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Originally posted by Ichinaru19
Baha one question with all the statements you have been saying. Are you saying that all these contributions are due to their "race"? Just wondering because this whole thread you've been doing off on this idea it seems.
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Why america even use and acknowledges race in the first place? You know that someone always will be comparing them if it's constantly brought up by the media.
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Member Since: 6/4/2010
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I bet he believes that Christopher Columbus mess.
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Member Since: 11/28/2011
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Originally posted by Baha
We live in world created by white man
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Maybe you haven't noticed but the world we live in is kinda sucky and it's literally dying so what does that tell you about white people?
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