Affirmative Action

Yes I can see your point, but if donating a wing to the library or a new computer center or dormatory will no longer guarantee placement of your kid, then I would hate to see those things trail off as that will raise tuitions and taxes to pay for those things.

I'm not saying it's right, but that's the way it is. I went to a state school because I couldn't afford a more expensive school. I didn't see a glaring absence of colored people, and this is in an area that has a less than average number of minorities to begin with.

snood wrote:

What color were the "colored" people?

Most were blue, but we had a few paisleys mixed in.

legacy student: one who is helped into not just college but also jobs etc. by virtue of either one or both of their parents (ie "legacy"). IMHO, that is a bad thing because, up until now at least, a good example would be Dubya who was born on 3rd base and still thinks he hit a triple!

OMFG, I wrote "colored people" instead of "people of color" which is what I meant to type. I apologize. Get off my ass now.

So legacy students are a bad thing because you think Dubya was one? Are you arguing that no black parent would be afforded the same advantage for his or her progeny? If that's true, then I would agree it is a bad thing.

And can we please get over the "colored people" thing? There was a time when that was the PC term, and I frankly think that the term gets changed every couple of years just so that we can point fingers at the people who aren't keeping up.

Reminds me of a time when I get taken to task by a friend for referring to her and others as "ladies". "Don't you mean women?" she asked. I asked her if her experience of me led her to believe that I was a bigot regarding gender differences. "No." I then asked her what purpose was served by being offended at my use of the term "lady", of which the worst you can say is that it implies an above average standard of conduct. She had no response.

Sometimes I suspect that the main reason we can't get past racial issues in this country is because some people simply won't let us.

McGentrix wrote:

OMFG, I wrote "colored people" instead of "people of color" which is what I meant to type. I apologize. Get off my ass now.

Yeah I'll get off your ass, soon as you pull your head out of it - which is where it has to be, if you really think anyone believes your bullcrap. Someone as intelligent as you, and who loves the sight of his own words on a page as much as you, did not "accidentally" write "colored" for "people of color". And the fact that you want to pawn that off on us as true makes you not only suspect as a bigot, but also apparently too cowardly to just admit that that's just the way you like to talk.

How about "pigmentally gifted"?

sweet - So nice of you to turn to insults. Care to return to the topic? Or have you run out of thoughts on it?

If anyone here thinks the term "colored people" is interchangeable with any other term that shows up "every couple of years", I suggest that individual start approaching blacks and using that term frequently. After a short while, I'm quite sure some of his confusion would clear up.