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- From: tim@ais.org (Tim Tyler)
- Subject: Re: Maginal whites complain about Affirmative Action
- Message-ID: <C19K5G.LLH@ais.org>
- Organization: UMCC
- References: <1993Jan14.025508.23805@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:22:26 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan14.025508.23805@news.acns.nwu.edu> dowdy@tochtli.biochem.nwu.edu (Dowdy Jackson) writes:
- >With all of this talk about how Affirmative Action (AA) is hurting all
- >of these poor unfortunate white people, why is it that most companies
- >are predominately white, most CEOs are all white, most of the universities
- >are all white, etc,etc. Its funny that most whites can't beleive that an:
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- Golly, do ya think it could be because whites make up "most" of the U.S.
- population?
-
- > I am the first AfAm in the PhD program in Molecular Biology at NU.
- >I remember hearing a rumor, which was confirmed by my advisor, that I was
- >just some AA benifactor. I guess my classmates were in for a rude awakening
- >when this AA benifactor kicked their butts in all but one of the classes we
- >ALL had to take. Were there whie applicants with higher GRE scores than mine
- >? Probably. Were there white applicants with better GPAs than mine ? Probably.
- >But GPA and standardized test scores don't tell you junk about how well you
- >can perform under pressure..... By the way, 3 white students were kicked out
- >of my program that year. I guess they were taking spaces from the more
- >qualified white applicants...
-
- The wonderful chievements of yours which you have so modestly informed us
- of simply go to show that there is no need for AA. You apparently went
- head-to-head with whitey & "kicked their butts" in the classes, etc.
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