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- From: kls30@cd.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard)
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- Subject: Re: Racist/Sexist Role Models
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:43:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.045615.19575@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
- Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) writes:
- >>I hate to take offence at the last sentence of a long post, but I
- >strongly
- >>object to the inference that blacks get preferential treatment in the
- >classroom
- >>and in grading. I have NEVER, in my years as a student at three
- >institutions,
- >>including one in the UC system, observed such incidents.
- >
- >Many colleges provide special preferred academic treatment for Blaks.
- >These include lower admission standards (in effect, adding points to
- >SAT
- >scores, etc.), tutoring, mentoring, organization memberships, which
- >are
-
- I don't agree with lowering admission standards but the fact remains that inner
- city schools where most AfAm attend are not adequate for college prep and the
- schools in suburbia are. How do you solve the problem of a bright AfAm
- student
- that has a lot of potential not being able to get into college because
- his high
- school was crap?
-
- Also what is preferential about tutoring. At SFSU and SJSU I was a tutor for
- the AfAm organizations. So. Does it make me a racist because I volunteered
- my time to the AfAm organizations and not the white? I don't think so.
- Since when have white engineering or any other students had a problem getting
- a white tutor? One reason for having AfAm tutors is the problems we experience
- are a lot different from white students. If a white student asked for help i
- wouldn't refuse but I didn't look in the halls for white students to tutor like
- I did AfAm either.
-
- As far as mentors go. When was the last time a white student had a problem
- finding a white professional with the same type of career goals as he/she?
- Now ask how many AfAm engineers most high schools students see.
-
-
- >denied Caucasian students. Perhaps you didn't realize such advantages
- >made available to you were race restricted.
-
- White student have never had problems as a whole with all the things you list.
- AfAm students have had serious problems in those areas.
- whites have had the biggest quota system in ameriKKKa. When you deny AfAm and
- other people of color admission to an institution you are gcreating a 100%
- white quota.
-
-
-
- >
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- > North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
- > Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
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