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Old 05-19-2009, 07:21 AM
 
Location: Metro-Detroit area
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You have no idea what she meant, do you?
Apparently most of them don't.


"Gee, I'm a white high school student, colleges send recruiters to my school, guidance counselors get brochures about different colleges in the mail and pass them on to me".

"I see degreed working people and professionals in my neighborhood and business communities, and my counselors tell me about scholarships and student loans. Wow everyone must live like I do!!".



It's amazing that people will act so blind as to pretend that colleges for many years did not make an effort to include minorities from poorer backgrounds into their student bodies.

That all kinds of recruiting and retention programs were only aimed at white students and at certain schools monorities are still not encouraged to attend.

But because you are white and it's never happened to you then all the blacks must be making things up.

When you are a minority living in a 80% or more white neighborhood or going to a majority white school, your perceptions and experiences are going to be very different than the majority of the people there!!

The University of Detroit is in the middle of the city yet more than 80% of it;s student body is white, the college is attempting to even out the demographics, but even they realised that for decades they ignored inner city students and reached out to the surburbs exclusively for students.

Stop trying to pretend that a black or minority person's life experience is the same as your and I they point out the disparity they must be ungrateful or racist.
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Old 05-19-2009, 07:32 AM
 
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Apparently most of them don't.


"Gee, I'm a white high school student, colleges send recruiters to my school, guidance counselors get brochures about different colleges in the mail and pass them on to me".

"I see degreed working people and professionals in my neighborhood and business communities, and my counselors tell me about scholarships and student loans. Wow everyone must live like I do!!".



It's amazing that people will act so blind as to pretend that colleges for many years did not make an effort to include minorities from poorer backgrounds into their student bodies.

That all kinds of recruiting and retention programs were only aimed at white students and at certain schools monorities are still not encouraged to attend.

But because you are white and it's never happened to you then all the blacks must be making things up.

When you are a minority living in a 80% or more white neighborhood or going to a majority white school, your perceptions and experiences are going to be very different than the majority of the people there!!

The University of Detroit is in the middle of the city yet more than 80% of it;s student body is white, the college is attempting to even out the demographics, but even they realised that for decades they ignored inner city students and reached out to the surburbs exclusively for students.

Stop trying to pretend that a black or minority person's life experience is the same as your and I they point out the disparity they must be ungrateful or racist.
Exactly!
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Old 05-19-2009, 10:07 AM
 
Location: Hangin' with the bears.
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Apparently most of them don't.


"Gee, I'm a white high school student, colleges send recruiters to my school, guidance counselors get brochures about different colleges in the mail and pass them on to me".

"I see degreed working people and professionals in my neighborhood and business communities, and my counselors tell me about scholarships and student loans. Wow everyone must live like I do!!".



It's amazing that people will act so blind as to pretend that colleges for many years did not make an effort to include minorities from poorer backgrounds into their student bodies.

That all kinds of recruiting and retention programs were only aimed at white students and at certain schools monorities are still not encouraged to attend.

But because you are white and it's never happened to you then all the blacks must be making things up.

When you are a minority living in a 80% or more white neighborhood or going to a majority white school, your perceptions and experiences are going to be very different than the majority of the people there!!

The University of Detroit is in the middle of the city yet more than 80% of it;s student body is white, the college is attempting to even out the demographics, but even they realised that for decades they ignored inner city students and reached out to the surburbs exclusively for students.

Stop trying to pretend that a black or minority person's life experience is the same as your and I they point out the disparity they must be ungrateful or racist.
Well said! But,you know as well as I, they still don't get it. Those blinders they go through life wearing will only allow them to see what they want to see. It's more 'comfortable' that way.
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Old 05-19-2009, 12:05 PM
 
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Well said! But,you know as well as I, they still don't get it. Those blinders they go through life wearing will only allow them to see what they want to see. It's more 'comfortable' that way.
Even if they read and understand -- you know the same people who have a need to paint MO as arrogant and uppity and ungrateful will be right back on again as if they'd never learned a thing
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