Omnipotent_One
2007-10-10, 04:32 PM
My mother immigrated to this country with hardly a cent to her name (she's Chinese) and worked long hours at low paying jobs. She spent years trying to make a living working as a cashier at places like Macy's. My father (Jewish) was the son of a rather poor family immigrated to the US, and his father, an ice cream man, died when he was 8, leaving him and his brother in the care of a single mother. His brother became an alcoholic and after his mother died, was my father's only living family member. He had to work at a grocery store to help support himself
Given this, I am a member of the two groups most discriminated against by affirmative action, which really hurts my chances of going to a good college, and it's not like our family has any privileges. Their history is as bad as any black or latino I know, yet rather than receiving any help, we are actually hurt. I don't feel that being Jewish or Asian has given me any sort of advantage. You should see my high school. It's so poor we don't even have a real campus, just tiny portables with peeling paint and broken plumbing.
Meanwhile, my best friend is black, his father is the VP of Yahoo marketing and makes 500 grand a year. He has gone to private school all his life. He has absolutely NO disadvantages, and is allowed to apply for all sorts of scholarships he doesn't need, but I do. He gets bonus points when he applies to college, while I have a lower chance of getting in than a white kid and can't apply for any of those racist "black only" or "latino only" scholarships.
(and don't get started saying there are plenty of scholarships i can apply for, for every scholarship that a white or asian can apply for, there are 50 for blacks and latinos; i have a much lower chance of getting a scholarship than my friend, just because of my race)
How on EARTH is this justice??? This is blatant racism.
Can somebody please explain to me how affirmative action is in any way a fair system?
Given this, I am a member of the two groups most discriminated against by affirmative action, which really hurts my chances of going to a good college, and it's not like our family has any privileges. Their history is as bad as any black or latino I know, yet rather than receiving any help, we are actually hurt. I don't feel that being Jewish or Asian has given me any sort of advantage. You should see my high school. It's so poor we don't even have a real campus, just tiny portables with peeling paint and broken plumbing.
Meanwhile, my best friend is black, his father is the VP of Yahoo marketing and makes 500 grand a year. He has gone to private school all his life. He has absolutely NO disadvantages, and is allowed to apply for all sorts of scholarships he doesn't need, but I do. He gets bonus points when he applies to college, while I have a lower chance of getting in than a white kid and can't apply for any of those racist "black only" or "latino only" scholarships.
(and don't get started saying there are plenty of scholarships i can apply for, for every scholarship that a white or asian can apply for, there are 50 for blacks and latinos; i have a much lower chance of getting a scholarship than my friend, just because of my race)
How on EARTH is this justice??? This is blatant racism.
Can somebody please explain to me how affirmative action is in any way a fair system?