...the blatant incompetence and cowardly, poorly-hidden white supremacism weren't so utterly comical.
With all due respect to the young lady- she seems nice and earnest enough-this is a great lesson:If you are approached by someone to stand up for their cause and be used as an example? Be prepared to be used and made an example of.
Anybody who doesn't think there isn't still massive institutionalized racism in this country either needs to sprout a brain-stem or listen to white people talk.
My personal opinion is that most racism is due more to culture clash and ignorance than hate. I realize that there is definitely a hate component to it in the bigger sense, but just think about how completely ignorant of the world most people are. If any of you have lived in a severely economically depressed, crime-ridden area in a major city, imagine the average wonder-bread chomping, working-class white dude who has never lived there would react upon being dumped there.
That is what it is like for Whitey when he meets people from that background anywhere. They are foreigners, and his little Wonder-Bread-addled chimpanzee-brain is taught to loathe and fear foreigners simply because they are different.
Nothing much changes that quickly, we have the ability to evolve consciously, but that costs education dollars that we are unwilling to spend because those who profit from dividing and controlling us tell us so.
So, we get what we deserve.
" ...Neither Fisher nor Blum mentioned those 42 applicants in interviews. Nor did they acknowledge the 168 black and Latino students with grades as good as or better than Fisher's who were also denied entry into the university that year. Also left unsaid is the fact that Fisher turned down a standard UT offer under which she could have gone to the university her sophomore year if she earned a 3.2 GPA at another Texas university school in her freshman year.....
....Public opinion on race has changed over time as well. In the 1950s, surveys show, most white Americans believed that black Americans faced substantial discrimination but that they themselves experienced little. Today, despite gaping disparities between black and white Americans in income, education, health care, homeownership, employment and college admissions, a majority of white Americans now believe they are just as likely, or more likely, to face discrimination as black Americans."
With all due respect to the young lady- she seems nice and earnest enough-this is a great lesson:If you are approached by someone to stand up for their cause and be used as an example? Be prepared to be used and made an example of.
Anybody who doesn't think there isn't still massive institutionalized racism in this country either needs to sprout a brain-stem or listen to white people talk.
My personal opinion is that most racism is due more to culture clash and ignorance than hate. I realize that there is definitely a hate component to it in the bigger sense, but just think about how completely ignorant of the world most people are. If any of you have lived in a severely economically depressed, crime-ridden area in a major city, imagine the average wonder-bread chomping, working-class white dude who has never lived there would react upon being dumped there.
That is what it is like for Whitey when he meets people from that background anywhere. They are foreigners, and his little Wonder-Bread-addled chimpanzee-brain is taught to loathe and fear foreigners simply because they are different.
Nothing much changes that quickly, we have the ability to evolve consciously, but that costs education dollars that we are unwilling to spend because those who profit from dividing and controlling us tell us so.
So, we get what we deserve.
" ...Neither Fisher nor Blum mentioned those 42 applicants in interviews. Nor did they acknowledge the 168 black and Latino students with grades as good as or better than Fisher's who were also denied entry into the university that year. Also left unsaid is the fact that Fisher turned down a standard UT offer under which she could have gone to the university her sophomore year if she earned a 3.2 GPA at another Texas university school in her freshman year.....
....Public opinion on race has changed over time as well. In the 1950s, surveys show, most white Americans believed that black Americans faced substantial discrimination but that they themselves experienced little. Today, despite gaping disparities between black and white Americans in income, education, health care, homeownership, employment and college admissions, a majority of white Americans now believe they are just as likely, or more likely, to face discrimination as black Americans."
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