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- From: turnerbl@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
- Newsgroups: misc.education,soc.culture.african.american
- Subject: Re: What A White Person Learned in College About AfAm Culture
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.143413.2350@ucbeh.san.uc.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 14:34:13 EST
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- Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati
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- >>How about a new topic, like the horrible failure of the academic system to
- >>graduate african american students? Just a thought.
- >>
- > Your political correctness is showing. How about the failure of african
- > american students to graduate from the academic system?
- *****my what? how dare you!****
- >>
- >>B Turner
- >>Admissions Officer
- >>University of Cincinnati
- >>
- > One answer is that admissions officers admit students that can't do
- > university level work because of affirmative discrimation programs.
-
-
- wrong pal! we admit qualified students who meet the criteria set forth by our
- boards and the politicans who appoint them. If you have a problem with that, I
- suggest you vote them in/out.
-
- As far as affirmative action, you are way out of line. To quote a current tv
- commercial, "como esta usted." The complection of this country is changing and
- in the early part of the next century, the majority of the USA will be made up
- of non-white americans. Now, we have two choices. The first is to exclude
- them from the educational opportunities that will enable all of us to function
- in a multi cultural society. Or we can throw a big wall up around ourselves
- and get some of those used "africanners only" signs. Your choice.
-
- > It seems more and more students, both black and white, can't do
- > university level work because the public school system AND their families
- > have failed to make sure that they are educated.
-
- Or could it be because state governments/local voters refuse to fund the
- systems that are supposed to educate ALL the students, not just the rich white
- suburban ones? Your ignorance of higher education is showing and your opinions
- prove it.
-
- (I could go into my
- > anti-public school ranting and raving at this time but I won't.) The
- > universities can't make up for 12 years of wasted time.
-
- But we can try to make a difference in the lives of each and every student who
- tries to. You, it would seem, would rather replicate yourself only. Nice try,
- but the math will win out in the end and you will have to deal with the facts,
- like them or not. Unless you want a lot of ill-eduacted, racialy divided, and
- not real happy with you folks out-voting you and unable to get jobs (ie unable
- to cntribute to YOUR Social Security) we have to do a better job of educating
- all our young people. What do you think?
-
- B. Turner
- University of Cincinnati
-
- "opinions are mine alone and nasty remarks will be giggeled at"
-