“As many as 15 percent of freshmen at America’s top schools are white students who failed to meet their university’s minimum standards for admission, according to Peter Schmidt, deputy editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education. These kids are “people with a long-standing relationship with the university,” or in other words, the children of faculty, wealthy alumni and politicians.
According to Schmidt, these unqualified but privileged kids are nearly twice as common on top campuses as Black and Latino students who had benefited from affirmative action.
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Ten myths about affirmative action (via linzyxxxxx)
well well well look at that.
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OH HEY
OH HEY COLLEGE REPUBLICANS/YAF
OH HEY WOULD YA LOOK AT THIS
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The Whitest Kids U’ Know — The Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegence to the flag of the United States of America
Thank you very very much for letting us little kids live here.
It really really was nice of you.
You didn’t have to do it.
And it’s really not freaky that us little little kids mindlessly recite this anthem every day and pledge their life to a government before they’re old enough to really think about what they’re saying.
This is not a form of brainwashing.
This is not a form of brainwashing.
This is not a form of brainwashing.
This is really the greatest country in the whole world.
All the other countries suck.
And if this country ever goes to war, as it’s often wont to do, I promise to help go and kill all the other countries’ kids.
God bless Johnson and Johnson. God b;ess GE. God bless Citigroup. Amen.
Very good, kids. Now come and get your Ritalin.
Knit Me A Pony: Status Message Here: notime4yourshit: In discussions of hip hop homophobia there seems to...
In discussions of hip hop homophobia there seems to be a constant need to paint everyone with the same brush.
While a great deal of mainstream Hip Hop is very dependent on a machismo aesthetic, there are layers to a lot of the artists that are constantly ignored in a…
This just really highlights why it’s important to frame things in a “that thing you said was bigoted” way as opposed to a “you are bigoted because you said that thing” way.
First Graders Handcuffed At Chicago School, Told They Were Going To Prison
The Chicago Tribune reports that LaShanda Smith filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of her son, who she claims was one of several 6 and-7-year olds excessively punished by a security guard at Carver Primary School on the South Side.
The school allegedly authorized on-campus security to discipline disruptive first graders, Fox Chicago reports. The children who were considered disruptive were then allegedly handcuffed for an hour and sent to an office, where they were told “they were going to prison and would never see their parents again,” attorney Michael Carin told the Tribune.
six. years. old.
something serious is fucking going on.
The fuck is happening to this country
