Wow, almost a year away from T-Mag and I see that we haven’t progressed an inch. Still a bunch of white dudes whining about some black guys who have it easier than them getting into college, still some pissed off black guy angry at the world because his grandmother drank out of a segregated water cooler.
Simply put: Awesome.
Whiny white guys: shut up and study. Straight A’s in a public high school is easier than crap if you want them. If you weren’t playing X-box all night, pretending you had the drive to succeed athletically that the black race does, and instead embraced your books, you’d do OK. Unfortunately, the same laziness that keeps you scoring a 1000 on a many times over watered down SAT, and hovering at a 3.0 GPA is really the reason why you can’t dunk and run a 4.6 or better forty ( a real 4.6, not a BS 4.6)
What amazed me is when my drunkard whore sister with a horrific lazy eye (and isn’t so bright either)went to Culver Military academy, and they MADE HER STUDY, she suddenly could get straight A’s…huh. I can’t believe that simply by making her sit at her desk for four hours a night, removing all priviledges on the weekends if her grades weren’t up to snuff, and keeping her from making self destructive choices 100% of the time, she could become successful. Not hugely successful mind you, just Smith College (a true academic school, not like WashU (11th ranked by whom?), where the workload for students could choke even the strongest young scholars), and eventually UMich Law School. And trust me, she isn’t inherently bright…maybe 10 watts at best.
You see whiteys, instead of whinning about what other people are getting, she worked, and worked, and worked, and worked, and worked.
So quite learning every 10-move combo on Playstation, hit the books, print out all of Chad and Christian’s articles off of this site and follow those workouts for the next two years, and maybe some lesser deserving minority applicant won’t take your “rightful place”. Maybe instead of whining like little bitches, you could gain enough perspective to realize that those 40 spots in a class of 400 weren’t yours to get in the first place. They were and are reserved for black students. And, if you didn’t suck, you could compete with other kids who have had similar backgrounds…ie, the white kids.
Just think of it like this, when you go to the “courts” to ball, you don’t play on the black court, because that court is reserved for those very few athletes who have worked hard enough on their athleticism and game to play there. You call it the black court, but if you walked over to the rim while the ball was on the other side, grabbed a ball with two hands, and vertically dunked it, you’d play there… talent and athleticism gain respect instantly, as does a 4.0 and a 1600 SAT. Some little black kid doesn’t go off and whine when I do precisely that whenever I go play ball at a new set of courts… they just respect what is…I have developed superior athleticism for my race…I was always the white boy with springs. They don’t whine, so you stop. It is sad as hell. We are a society of weak assed finger pointers. You bunch a wussy T-metros.
Just like on the court, you compete against those with like backgrounds: soft in the middle, cannot squat twice your weight ass to the floor, built top-heavy if at all, no GPP. The white court is good for you.
That being said, I have played ball with many tough as nails white boys… they just all had one thing in common, they were fighters, not whiners. So shut up, you embarrass yourselves. A bunch of soft vag’s if I have ever seen them.
That being said, I would enjoy living in a world where there was a common standard across the board for very definable situations. College is one of them. I realize that Mr. Trigonometry is a damn racist, he has a greek origin, but enjoys keeping the brothers down like no other. So do all of his buddies: Mr. Algebra, Mr. Geometry, and Mr. Calculus. Damn racists every one of them.
The basic entry criteria for colleges are fairly easily definable, and I believe that colleges are supposed to be institutions of higher education. They are supposed to have a diversity of thought, not skin color. If skin color happens, I personally feel that the learning experience is much enhanced.
Before becoming a corporate sellout, I taught in a very racially diverse high school with 50% blacks, and 60% “at-risk students”. For all of you suburb types, “At-Risk” means that those kids have lived though some of the most attrociaous crap ever dealt with by a young person…ever.
Being qualified could also apply to hiring college faculty. I raised quite a ruckus on my campus in my rebuttle to the campus newspaper’s claim that the school’s hiring practice was racist and sexist. You see, AA tries to match workplaces and our existing population percentages…unfortunately, most of the PHD’s received in many subjects are by white males, so the qualified candidate pool has a percentage breakdown very, very dissimilar to that of the entire population. Are we to make things fair among those who are actually qualified to do the job, or by any T, D, or H in society? In looking at the percentages, our faculty were far over represented in percentages by women and minorities when the actual qualified pool was taken into account. Just like the basketball courts, you have to be able to ball before you can play, regardless of color.
Only people as ignorant as politicians would dream up something so stupid… or let it be interpratted as such.
On the other hand, as Pro X knows from much experience, in the business world, it is very easy to hide racism. Did I say very? I meant very, very, very, very, very.
In these cases, AA does a world of good in that the actual criteria for promotions have only somewhat to do with performance. My hardest corporate lesson is that the quality of your work matters much less than the relationships you form…hmmmm Do all of you whiny white guys now see how easy and “undetectable” racism could be in this situation?
Now Pro X, I guess I have done enough “dopey white boy bashing” for now. Now lets educate you a bit, shall we?
I realize that you have had to deal with a bunch of BS in your day. I grew up in the trailer parks, and then we moved to a lower middle class neighborhood. I am the decendant of Swedes who came here as indentured servants after the Emmancipation Proclomation. We didn’t own any slaves, we basically were slaves for a period…but white ones. Now that you know a bit about my family, let’s move on.
Like I said, your plight is completely unknown to me, as it is to any white person. I do not belittle that… I respect what you have done more than you know. I will probably go from sheer anger while typing this to wanting to cry (I know, what a pus) due to the rage I feel about this issue.
You also said above that you have gained perspective from your father who is a principal figure. To start off with, 99% of the teachers and administartors out there are part of the problem. Period. If I have made an error in this estimation, it is that I have estimated too low. At least 99%…so, by sheer numbers and chance, your father probably sucks, and is part of the problem. Before you get pissed, understand that I also, by sheer chance, also probably sucked and was part of the problem…but I doubt it for many of the reasons you have picked up here…excellent education, always was with blacks growing up due to athletic ability, had no money, and so on.
Administartors always say that things are looking better, that things are getting better, that there is a much stronger emphasis on education, etc. We all know that that talk is BS. Things are horrific, and you know it…so do I. The SAT has been re-centered a number of times in the past three decades to make it easier across the board…for white kids and black kids. Across the board we are all less educated than we were 50 years ago. Even if things were getting better, and say that the black community has doubled its efforts to embrace education, unfortunately, 2 X 0 = 0.
You see, I grew up in a family that truly embraced education. They did everything to help my sister who literally may have ended up a crack whore if they hadn’t truly just shipped her to Culver kicking and screaming. But, even in my family, there was little to no focus on education in day to day life. My dad went to college for a while, my step-dad was a former marine, my mom dropped out of HS in 10th grade. They all talked a big education game, but they never supported me, they merely punished me for unacceptable grades. They talked a big “embracing education” game, but how did that BS talk translate to making me a better student? It didn’t…ever.
You stated in one thread that the books that a suburban kid reads are in much better shape than those in inner cities. True. They are also in much better shape than those in rural schools…all white rural schools…hmmm. Do those kids get AA also? They are from ignorant families with no education in their history, do not embrace history, and the teachers out at Po-Dunk senior high are no better than those in the inner-city…believe me. Do those hicks get to fill out special minority questionnares? Nope.
So please do not lump in all white people to one group…each person has his or her own tale. There are many more white kids in craphole schools than black kids, so you don’t get those bragging rights anymore. I am poor white trash, and we are discriminated against by socioeconomics, blacks, asians, whites, AA, everyone. (Probably rightfully so.)
Now, let’s move onto those blacks who were who have been discriminated against recently…horrific at best. People of two generations ago who have faced this type of crap, like segregated drinking fountains, have faced atrocities to the human spirit unknown to white americans…period.
And while I do sympathize with their plight, let’s look at how this all happened: Many, if not most Africans were traded in the Americas through a slave system originating on the west coast of Africa. Africans slave traders (other blacks), would sell their own people to white boaters. These slave traders also had slaves themselves. Blacks owning blacks…huh. These slaves were sold into a country who embraced enlightened thinking in some areas… unfortunately, we also have a large smattering of racist scum… at the time we refrered to these people as Confederates. The South realized that if the western territories weren’t divided up into slave states and free states rather evenly, the ability to own slaves legally might come under attack as the senate and congress would continue to have more and more free states. So, the South “made a run for the border”.
The North would not let this happen, so our country fought and lost 618,000+ men to figure this issue, and others, out. Remember how we all gasped when we lost 1000 men in Irag in a month…? Try tens of thousands in days. To decide the structure and power shift in our forming country… would the old South be able to survive moving forward? They knew that slavery would end if the west was settled as free states.
Meanwhile back in Africa, slavery still was quite prevalent. Does it still exist in some areas in 2005? Hmmm… those awful white people. Damn their ignorance. Why are your cries not directed towards freeing slaves in Somalia…huh. Instead you choose to argue with a bunch of dumbass white guys…not very bright. But, I am trying to help that. Help you with perspective.
Now let’s take a look at the general plight of the black community from a more worldly perspective. You see, if we are saying that white people (remember I wasn’t even out of Sweden yet!!!) took black people out of Africa, and enslaved them (not true, as we know, but OK), then their plot in life just got much worse. And since then, through all of the years we now look at the plight of blacks versus the plight of the whites in this country…obviously the average white person is much better of in America…no doubt. But wait a minute, I cannot do that. This is due to taking a basic logic and argument course. You cannot compare A to A, and then compare A to B as a direct result. If we are to compare the blacks in Africa in the 1700’s to blacks in America in the 1700’s, then we must also compare blacks in America in 2005 to blacks in Africa in 2005. This is basic sound logic, which I assume you know.
So let’s do that.
In America, an average black family has 1 car, a TV or two, Nintendo, eats 3 meals a day (probably not nutritious due to a lack of education (and don’t say it is too expensive…don’t dare, rice, cheap meat cuts, and canned veggies are damn cheap…but don’t taste as good as toasted sugary death cereal). The average family has heat, indoor plumbing, can bathe daily, wears deodorant, and has the opportunity to get an education. None of this is true of the average African family. Some, yes, but not most. While I hate what happened, and continues to happen, and dedicate much of my time to helping educate the young black community on the importance not only of college education, but also financial and entrepreneurial education (real wealth), if it ever gets too awful for you, try visitng Africa. The whites in America suck for bringing the blacks here under the circumstances that they did, I agree, but I don’t see anyone choosing to leave. It isn’t that awful. Perspective.
While it enrages me about your grandmother, if she was in Africa: a) she wouldn’t probably have lived that long, and B) there wouldn’t have been a water fountain to drink out of… it’s that simple.
So now that everyone is my enemy, except every black youth I come into contact with, where can we go from here in this thread?
How about this Pro X. You let the ignorant white people be ignorant. No matter how much you bitch, they will be dumb. Instead of that, why don’t you spend these hours talking at local high schools to parents about the importance of education, and what it has done for you. Don’t just talk about some obscure goal, design a real step-by-step way for the kids to find success. Give a series of talks: financial responsibility, entreprenurism, education, nutrition, etc.
Currently, you are wasting your life here. Instead, you could be changing other lives. These dopey assed " I feel slighted by AA" white guys will be here when you get back. Trust me. It is called “making excuses” to explain why I am mediocre.
Stop telling everyone what the problem is…anyone educated knows that the fault lies in many areas: both with your people, and with white people…so help alter the things your race, your people can alter. Talking to these people here is a waste of time, and a waste of your passion. You are obviously smart. Maybe too passionate for yuor own good at times, but OK, I love passion.
Use it. Be a catalyst for something amazing. Here you just look like an angry black guy… I know you are more than that.
Ignorance is Universal. Only change those worth changing.
Make sense?
A Friend,
Jumanji
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