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    thumper Guest

    politics of victimhood: Not enough 'Native' blacks in college

    Questions raised over college diversity
    NEW YORK — Something in the crowd made Shirley Wilcher wonder. As a college graduate in the early 1970s, her black classmates were like herself — born in the United States, to American parents. But at an alumni reunion at Mount Holyoke College last year, she saw something different and asked for admissions data to prove it.“My suspicions were confirmed,” said Wilcher, now the executive director of the American Association for Affirmative Action. She found a rise in the number of black students from Africa and the Caribbean, and a downturn in admissions of native blacks like her.

    A study released this year put numbers on the trend. Among students at 28 top U.S. universities, the representation of black students of first- and second-generation immigrant origin (27 percent) was about twice their representation in the national population of blacks their age (13 percent). Within the Ivy League, immigrant-origin students made up 41 percent of black freshmen.

    Wilcher would like to know why. She asks if her cause has lost its way on U.S. campuses, with the goal of correcting American racial injustices replaced by a softer ideal of diversity — as if any black student will do.

    [...]

    Last month, a Harvard Black Students Association message board asked, “When we use the term ’black community,’ who is included in this description?” A lively debate ensued, with some posters complaining that African students were getting an admissions boost without having faced the historical suffering of U.S. blacks.

    Jason Lee, the Harvard group’s president, echoed another thought in the discussion. “There’s a historical sense that black Americans are disrespected by immigrants,” he said. “Parents don’t want their kids to play with them, don’t want bad habits rubbing off on them. There’s a bit of tension there.”

    But Adjei-Brenyah, the president of the African Students Association at Columbia, argued that drawing an admissions distinction based on suffering under slavery is false. “If you’re going to make a slavery case, people from the Caribbean were also displaced and enslaved. How do you begin to differentiate?” he said.

    my take on it.

    the illuminati has created a co-dependent relationship between the Black community and the government plantation. As you can see it's distorted reality for many.

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    PhilosophyGenius Guest
    The Illuminati can't have that much reach. If they did they'd of already won.

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    thumper Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by PhilosophyGenius
    The Illuminati can't have that much reach. If they did they'd of already won.
    whatever the case, do you agree that the degenerate condition of Black America is engineered?

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    thumper Guest
    thump

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    PhilosophyGenius Guest
    Quote Originally Posted by thumper
    whatever the case, do you agree that the degenerate condition of Black America is engineered?
    Possibly with the whole CIA brining drugs here thing. And the infiltration into the black movement in the 70's (or whenever it was).

    But let's face it, they also do a lot of that to themsleves. With there culture and rap music.

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