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Tyler Perry's "Black People Will Watch Anything With My Name On it" was a blockbuster and you know it.

I don't care about any type of sexuality. I just like poking at you. You're such an easy target.

Post #15 clearly states why I support AA & slave reparations. If you are unable to provide EXACTLY what part is incoherent, then you have no argument about my "inability to communicate".

AA policies would be more effective if the concentrated on cleaning up inner cities, especially the schools.

Post #15.

Affirmative action? Fuck no.

In Texas, we have a state law saying that if you are in the top 10% of your graduating class, then you get automatic admission to all Texas public colleges. They decided to implement this because the Texas legislature decided that there wasn't enough ethnic variety at Texas public schools.

Now, there is certainly more, say, inner-city kids at schools like UT, but we've run into the issue where schools are having to take only top 10% kids because after the kids they are required to take, they simply don't have the room to take anyone else.

The school I wanted to go to, University of Texas, even has had an exception made for them. This past year, they only had to take the top 8% of students, because they are quickly reaching overpopulation. They have ~50,000 students, and no room to grow, being in the middle of Austin. They only made the exception because they predicted that this past year 75% of students would be getting in for this top 10% rule.

Now, you're probably thinking this is fair. Everyone has a the same chance to be top 10% in their school, right? Wrong. I went to a very good public school. Ranked 98 in the country by Newsweek. You think the top 10% at my school, with a graduating class of about 1,000 students was, as easy to get as the top 10% in podunk West Texas? Hell no.

My GPA was 3.8. I was rank 300. Top third. That's it. I would be top 10% easy at many other schools in Texas. I was accepted to Baylor, SMU, and many other private schools that didn't have to deal with the top 10 rule. Do I think I would have been accepted at UT if the rule weren't in place? Maybe. I don't know. I'm not arrogant enough to say yes. But I will say that in Texas that rule is an example of affirmative action, and is completely unfair.

The law was even implemented because affirmative action in college admission is illegal. This was a freaking workaround.

So no, I don't' support affirmative action. All men are created equally? Then give us all an equal chance, for crap's sake.

If only UT wasn't where I wanted to go to school.

At the moment, I'm in a transfer program. I'm going to one of their satellite schools, and as long as I make a 3.2 my freshman year, I get guaranteed admission for transfer my sophomore year.

How does a comic strip of 2 people address a third person?

How does a comic strip of a black guy waiting for the white guy to put out his hand address the black guy getting a latter?

It simply doesn't.

Omega is an idiot who talked himself in the corner and now he wants to avoid the topic because he realize how dumb his beliefs were.

Latte? Later? Ladder?
WTH? Take a damn English class.

So, when I make a mistake, I have to go take an English class, but when someone else says "Tis is you're", then it's my fault for correcting it because "I should have known"? STFU.



Exactly.

The metaphor shows that the white guy used the black guy to get up top. When the white guy gets up top, the black guy asks for a hand to get on top as well. The white guy complains and says "reverse discrimination".

I perfectly understand the metaphor. That metaphor explains his opinion on AA. His opinion was never in question. Post #15 explains his view quite well and I don't disagree with the post either. That wasn't the concern.

Vageta argued that the best thing for the black person is to stand there hoping and wishing that one day the white guy will stick out his hand and help him.

My counter is that, while assistance is nice, it is NOT the BEST solution. The best solution would be for the black guy to find or build a LADDER.

Ironically, you failed to see that "finding or building a ladder" is a metaphor of self help with education, motivation and self respect. Once that black person has access to a ladder, then he doesn't need to hope for the white guy to extend his hand. He can get on top as he pleases.

What I've asked Vageta to do is to now stand by his statement that waiting for a hand out is better than being independent. That picture does not do that because the words "better" and "best" means that there is a comparison being done. There is no comparison of solutions in that picture.

He knows that.

Edited, Nov 20th 2011 2:41pm by Almalieque

This.
Leaving out a letter is not the same as not knowing which word to use. Which is something you do all the damn time.

Which is why I made the correction!!! Why would I correct "'Tis your"? Him leaving out a letter created another word. "Tis" isn't a common typo, so I assumed that he left off an apostrophe than an "h".

In any case, "you're" isn't the same as "your".



You mean like "you're" and "your" which was in the very same sentence?



Edited, Nov 20th 2011 5:24pm by Almalieque

Edited, Nov 20th 2011 5:24pm by Almalieque

So what I said then.