You have to take a test. If you like, own or participate in at least 25% of these activities, you qualify.
1. Snowboarding and/or snow skiing.
2. Sunday brunch.
3. Organic food.
4. Wine.
5. Running marathons.
6. 80's music.
7. Mountain biking.
8. Sweaters.
9. Coffee shop pastries.
10. Toyota Prius.
11. Sports involving frisbees.
12. Conan OBrien
13. Bottled water.
14. Pampered Chef products.
15. Knowlege about interest rates and/or the stock market.
16. Sushi.
17. Ray-Ban sunglasses.
18. Camping.
19. Book signings.
20. Farmer's markets.
Well, I'm a "Heinz 57." I have probably more Scottish and Norwegian than anything else, but I have two types on American Indian in me, Black, German, Icelandic, English, French, etc. etc. I think I have everything in me but Asian/oriental.In my case, it's an Irish mother/German father
funny how i get no scholarships and no affirmative action but i get casually racist comments about pale skin frequently?
yeah it is pretty funny. pretty funny double standard.
What an idiot....of course, the hidden message is that there is no more racism....It's time to give everyone an equal shot.’
....tell that to the 25% rate of unemployed teen to mid-20 blacks...
I was remarking that your intial comments were funny because of how inaccurate they were.
Whites are not a minority in Texas. In San Antonio it is more difficult to tell because of the overlap between Hispanic and white in the census data.
As for how well White people are doing in San Antonio, look at the these figures:
http://www.sanantonio.gov/planning/p...B_20100129.pdf
Pay special attention to the areas that are mostly white and mostly hispanic. Now, once you're done looking at that information take a look at the unemployment, education level, and income maps.
As for you scholarships, there are countless scholarships that are public and are not defined by race. If you don't qualify for those, that is on you and is not on anyone else. There is government aid as well and if you don't qualify for that then you either make too much money or have done something to mess up your qualifications.
There is no affirmative action to be had for anyone so you're just like everyone else in that matter.
Sucks that you've had to endure slurs, but almost everyone I know has had to endure slurs at some point. That is pretty much every race out there. That doesn't make your comments anymore accurate.
Whites are doing just fine in San Antonio.
I was a bit vague and misleading, I apologize. Texas is what's called a "minority majority", since no race accounts for over 50% of the population.
White people are a minority in San Antonio, which is 61.2% hispanic.
When I say "most" of the disadvantages, I mean to say that people who are casually racist tend to treat their own race more favorably than others. This invariably leads to the minority getting treated like more often due to racism on an average basis. This happens in any place, anywhere.
The difference is that since I am white, I am not allowed to argue or complain about anything that I see as being unfair. I am not allowed to pull the race card. All the government programs which are designed to help minorities only account for minorities as measured in the entire country, not in the region I am from, so really they are set up to help the majority of San Antonio, and not me as a minority.
Everyone has to endure slurs at some point, but there's a difference being white. If someone said my skin was pale during any of my years in school, nothing would happen to them. I guarantee if I made any kind of comment about a darker person's skin color I would be punished.
I'm just pointing out a double-standard is all.
Last edited by greyforest; 03-01-2011 at 02:22 AM.
Well, you're pointing out the double standard that you're not allowed to complain about the situation by complaining about the situation so I'm not going to agree that you're not allowed to complain.
There really aren't that many government programs geared to minorities. In the end we all are eligible for nearly the same assistance from the federal government regardless of ethnicity with exception to various programs here and there.
Trust me, the race card isn't nearly all its cracked up to be either.
I do get your point, however, and while I don't necessarily agree I respect your perspective.
Why are you being a racialist, rather than pointing out the root cause for the statistics? Color isn't the reason, it's culture.
Last edited by Wild Cobra; 03-02-2011 at 07:25 PM.
We need to get rid of all race and gender-based scholarships. Women, in particular, don't need special treatment, as they currently outnumber their male counterparts.
For all it's "big tent"-ness, it's the left that has always been obsessed with racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and gender iden ies.
In what fields (certainly not in engineering)?
Well, that may be true. Certainly weren't many women in engineering school when I was in college -- which sucked, btw.
Sure as did.
According to that recently released report which has been reported on the last few days: all fields except computer science and engineering
White people don't need this because every white person is in the world is rich and has never suffered.
takes one to know one. ya buttpirate.
Makes sense....from my experience most women are afraid to take the technical track.
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