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osamanobama on 14 August 2011
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sapphi_snake said:
Baalzamon said:
Seece said:

White people and straight people have never had to face prejudice.

Funny you say white people have never had to face prejudice.  A HUGE number of scholarships (around here anyways) are solely for people of a different ethnicity.  But there are absolutely no scholarships that are only for white people.  What this means is 100% of scholarships are open to people of ethnicity, and, just as an estimate, only 70% are available to me as a white male.

I know perfectly well that we treated the Africans like absolute shit back in the day (and some people still do nowadays).  If they want to be equal, however, treat them equal.  Having considerably more scholarships available just because you are a different ethnicity is not treating them equal, it is treating them better than us.  Don't get me wrong, I know they are still treated unequaling in certain areas, but with something such as this, it would be SO easy to make it into a system that treats everybody equally, and that would simply involve not allowing scholarships to be based on ethnicity.

Those scholarships were instilled in a time when it was impossible for non-whites to get a scholarship (or even get admitted to a school/university). Their purpose is to make sure that non-white people (as a group) are represented sufficiently in schools/universities and that future generations of non-whites are educated. It's a way to achieve equality at an accelerated rate (else either prejudice or socio-economic constraints would make it impossible for non-whites to ascend in society.

Making a system that treats everybody equally requires everybody wanting everyobdy treated equally, which had not been and still is not the case.

thats what we call equality of results not equality of oportunity.

it doesnt matter what it was intended for, what matters is what it does. and it does discriminate, it does give one group preferential treatment over another. if it was wrong then, it is wrong now.

i have a cousin who has her dad who is white and mom who is black, so she is half black if you will, that means she is eligable for way scholarships than me. What did she do to deserve those scholarships? she was born to a mother with darker skin than I.

i also have a cousin of a cousin (my cousin's cousin, which we a close to) cant have children, and they adopted one Child from russia (she is white, with blond hair and blue eyes) and another from africa (she is back, with brown eyes) they are sisters who have grown up in the same household, provided with the same provisions. had the same advantages and disadvantages, but when its time for them to go to college, one withhave a signifacantly easier time paying for it. Why? all because one has more melanin than the other.