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Do Sasha and Malia Obama have a leg up with more advantages than the typical white kid? They have two parents who are in the top 1% for wealth, top 1% for political/business/social connections, top 1% for education, etc... I don't know what kind of students they are, but the honest truth is that all they have to do is graduate from high school to get accepted into an elite school due to who their parents are (Do you think George W Bush got into Yale on his own?). Do they really need a free hand out for being disadvantaged due to their race?
While we are at it, studies show that fat people, short people, ugly people, red haired people, people with redneck sounding names, etc...all face disadvantages in the work place too. Should we expand the freebees for more hapless victims?
Have biracial people been able to qualify for minority status if they are part white?
All the time, but usually they are "half" not white. When it gets down to 4% and not even knowing that you are something until you took a DNA test then it is different.
Also, African Americans who aren't recent immigrants from Africa are about a little above 20% white on average.
I had a former student get a Hispanic Scholarship....because their 100% white grandparents immigrated from Europe to Argentina....lived in Argentina for a few years and had a child there...and then moved to the US....thus making the grandchildren part "Hispanic" and winning scholarships for Hispanic people.
Do Sasha and Malia Obama have a leg up with more advantages than the typical white kid? They have two parents who are in the top 1% for wealth, top 1% for political/business/social connections, top 1% for education, etc... I don't know what kind of students they are, but the honest truth is that all they have to do is graduate from high school to get accepted into an elite school due to who their parents are (Do you think George W Bush got into Yale on his own?). Do they really need a free hand out for being disadvantaged due to their race?
While we are at it, studies show that fat people, short people, ugly people, red haired people, people with redneck sounding names, etc...all face disadvantages in the work place too. Should we expand the freebees for more hapless victims?
Well now you're going into a topic I've discussed many times here and involves this b.s. about white privilege. No such thing. There is class privilege. Period. Money and class trump all.
And no, the Obama girls and my black friends kids shouldn't qualify for any affirmative action programs because they make big bucks and attend the best schools.
But that's a different topic and my answer is crafted around current programs - like them or not.
Have biracial people been able to qualify for minority status if they are part white?
Sammy has me as biracial with white blood...though I've never capitulated to his criteria. Race is his hang-up, not mine. My phenotype is much more black than white. To be as accurate as possible I most resemble an Afro-Puerto Rican, though as I've noted numerous times I have no known Puerto Rican blood in me.
I qualified for everything all "African-Americans" qualified for and then some due to being a poor resident of an urban core.
Sammy tried shoving his programs down my throat from day #1. Never self-identified as anything. Never will. Like I said, that's his hang-up. I took no part in his game.
My ancestors were Irish, the English said we were "non-white".
I doubt many people ever actually believed that the Irish were non-white. It's a notion that's been promoted and completely overblown by leftists like Noel Ignatiev. And, in any case, it's passe now that Irish Catholic Bret Kavanaugh is a WASP and Irish Catholic Georgetown Prep is considered a bastion of aristocratic white privilege.
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