It's most likely a wrap for Affirmative Action today
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They been fighting Affirmative Action for decades.
US Senator Jesse Helms (R)
1990 Re-Election TV Campaign Ad
In the North Carolina Senate campaign, Republican incumbent Jesse Helms was several points behind Democrat Harvey Gantt in polls taken shortly before the election.
Over a weekend, political consultant Alex Castellanos wrote and produced an ad called "Hands." Gantt's support of affirmative action had been identified on surveys as an unpopular position.
The controversial "Hands" featured a close-up shot of two hands holding a letter and crumpling it as a narrator says "You needed that job, but they had to give it to a minority."
Helms made up the difference in the polls and won re-election.
US Senator Jesse Helms (R)
1990 Re-Election TV Campaign Ad
In the North Carolina Senate campaign, Republican incumbent Jesse Helms was several points behind Democrat Harvey Gantt in polls taken shortly before the election.
Over a weekend, political consultant Alex Castellanos wrote and produced an ad called "Hands." Gantt's support of affirmative action had been identified on surveys as an unpopular position.
The controversial "Hands" featured a close-up shot of two hands holding a letter and crumpling it as a narrator says "You needed that job, but they had to give it to a minority."
Helms made up the difference in the polls and won re-election.
It’s funny seeing all these inbred dumb ass crackas acting like they going to all of a sudden benefit from this when they can’t even get into any college. Most these crackas celebrating are old and have no plans of even going to college. They are celebrating Black people losing something else. They are just racists
President JFK’s Harvard Application Letter is slowly going viral due to SCOTUS decision on affirmative action.
It clearly shows how privilege and legacy benefits people like him.
JFK's Very Revealing Harvard Application Essay
At 17 years old, the future president seemed to understand that the value of an elite education is in the status it offers.
By Eleanor Barkhorn
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
John F. Kennedy is one of the most mythologized figures in contemporary American history. At age 17, though, he was just a kid trying to get into college (a kid with a wealthy, famous father, of course).
The Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum has a digitized version of Kennedy's 1935 Harvard application, which includes his grades and his response to the essay prompt, "Why do you wish to come to Harvard?" Here's how the future president answered:
The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a "Harvard man" is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain.
April 23, 1935
John F. Kennedy
Business Insider dismisses the essay for being five sentences long (I'm not sure how much more he could have written given the space) and implies that his answer wasn't carefully considered. That's probably true—Kennedy's grades show that he wasn't an especially good student in high school, and there's not much evidence that he took his education seriously at this point in his life. Plus, as Gawker points out, Kennedy wrote nearly exactly the same essay for his Princeton application.
Still, Kennedy's essay shows a profound, if implicit, understanding of the primary value of attending an elite school: status and personal connections, rather than mastery of academic skills and knowledge. Notice that he only makes one mention of the education he'd receive at Harvard—a passing reference to the school's superior "liberal education." The rest of the paragraph focuses on the the non-academic benefits: having a "better background," sharing the same alma mater with his dad, and enjoying the "enviable distinction" of being a Harvard Man.
And it is, indeed, an enviable distinction. Harvard has produced eight United States presidents, more than any other school. The school's website has a whole section devoted to all the alumni who've won Nobel prizes. Two of its dropouts are among the richest people in America. Whether these glories are due to the school's excellent education or its impressive alumni network and name recognition, who knows? But Kennedy clearly thought he knew the answer.
John F. Kennedy stands with his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, on the Harvard campus in 1937
It clearly shows how privilege and legacy benefits people like him.
JFK's Very Revealing Harvard Application Essay
At 17 years old, the future president seemed to understand that the value of an elite education is in the status it offers.
By Eleanor Barkhorn
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
John F. Kennedy is one of the most mythologized figures in contemporary American history. At age 17, though, he was just a kid trying to get into college (a kid with a wealthy, famous father, of course).
The Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum has a digitized version of Kennedy's 1935 Harvard application, which includes his grades and his response to the essay prompt, "Why do you wish to come to Harvard?" Here's how the future president answered:
The reasons that I have for wishing to go to Harvard are several. I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then too, I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a "Harvard man" is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain.
April 23, 1935
John F. Kennedy
Business Insider dismisses the essay for being five sentences long (I'm not sure how much more he could have written given the space) and implies that his answer wasn't carefully considered. That's probably true—Kennedy's grades show that he wasn't an especially good student in high school, and there's not much evidence that he took his education seriously at this point in his life. Plus, as Gawker points out, Kennedy wrote nearly exactly the same essay for his Princeton application.
Still, Kennedy's essay shows a profound, if implicit, understanding of the primary value of attending an elite school: status and personal connections, rather than mastery of academic skills and knowledge. Notice that he only makes one mention of the education he'd receive at Harvard—a passing reference to the school's superior "liberal education." The rest of the paragraph focuses on the the non-academic benefits: having a "better background," sharing the same alma mater with his dad, and enjoying the "enviable distinction" of being a Harvard Man.
And it is, indeed, an enviable distinction. Harvard has produced eight United States presidents, more than any other school. The school's website has a whole section devoted to all the alumni who've won Nobel prizes. Two of its dropouts are among the richest people in America. Whether these glories are due to the school's excellent education or its impressive alumni network and name recognition, who knows? But Kennedy clearly thought he knew the answer.
John F. Kennedy stands with his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, on the Harvard campus in 1937
Anybody get what Judge Joe Brown is saying here?
He's saying the asians shot themselves in the foot with this....
He's saying the asians shot themselves in the foot with this....
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@NatashaSAlford: I was 17 years old when I applied to Harvard. My guidance counselor pulled me aside the day a recruiter came to my city high school for an info session. She was a Black woman...
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Thinking of my sister today. Harvard was a singular obsession with my mom during my childhood and it became my sister’s singular obsession throughout her short life. It became my own source of insecurity as a 2.8 GPA Asian (we exist) who sucked at math and standardized tests. Maybe it’s a Gen X thing but she never once felt entitled to Harvard or worried that someone else would “take her spot” because she was in competition with herself. Needless to say, losing her impacted our whole family. In our own ways we all stopped giving a fuck about Harvard. So hello AAPI. I get where the obsession for elite schools as access points to the American Dream comes from. Been there, done that. All this to say this obsession with elite schools without understanding this country’s history makes first generation immigrants easy targets for Edward Blum and friends without knowing who he even is. It’s in their interest to see their fear of “demographic change” fighting each other for scraps because the idea of a more inclusive society for all is happening and it means a loss of control. This is what this SCOTUS win for them was about. So feel how you want but just know that being used as a model minority tool is a choice.
major universities are where AGENTS are groomed and recruited to work AGAINST
the masses for the powers that shouldnt be.
the masses for the powers that shouldnt be.
The end.
I mean the numbers in California showed when AA was ruled unconstitutional in the state Asian rates shot up. There is no shame in an asian fighting for asians rather than some "POC" coalition that never existed.
I thought about this when I was listening Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay, but then I remembered, state legislatures have criminally underfunded the HBCUs on purpose. You had Tennessee State admins up there practically begging for their "back pay" so they can build more housing for the students...they are literally proving Separate but equal was and is BS
I REALLY hate the fact that folks can tweet paragraphs.
When Republicans bang on incessantly about Joe Biden wasting your hard earned taxes, stop and take a moment to listen to this.
The Durham inquiry cost an estimated $6.5 million to find absolutely NOTHING. Yet Republicans hold it up as concrete proof that Trump did not collude with Russia in 2016 to affect the outcome of the election.
Bill Barr who was at the time Trump’s legal protector and enforcer, instructed Durham to disprove the connection between Russian state actors and the Trump campaign.
This is the same Bill Barr that is now a Dog and a ‘Gutless Pig’ by the way.
Let’s be clear, there is no question Russia interfered with the 2016 election and they did it to get Trump elected. It was probably the biggest intelligence victory of a U.S. adversary history, the results of which destabilized the world order EXACTLY as planned.
Not only did they achieve their objective, they planted a small group of what are effectively unpaid Russian assets at the heart of the legislative process to continue to disrupt the political process.
America was royally played and Trump was the key that unlocked their global expansion objectives.
Now they are looking forward to ‘Infiltration Part II - The final nail in the coffin of democracy’.
Don’t fall for it.
When Republicans bang on incessantly about Joe Biden wasting your hard earned taxes, stop and take a moment to listen to this.
The Durham inquiry cost an estimated $6.5 million to find absolutely NOTHING. Yet Republicans hold it up as concrete proof that Trump did not collude with Russia in 2016 to affect the outcome of the election.
Bill Barr who was at the time Trump’s legal protector and enforcer, instructed Durham to disprove the connection between Russian state actors and the Trump campaign.
This is the same Bill Barr that is now a Dog and a ‘Gutless Pig’ by the way.
Let’s be clear, there is no question Russia interfered with the 2016 election and they did it to get Trump elected. It was probably the biggest intelligence victory of a U.S. adversary history, the results of which destabilized the world order EXACTLY as planned.
Not only did they achieve their objective, they planted a small group of what are effectively unpaid Russian assets at the heart of the legislative process to continue to disrupt the political process.
America was royally played and Trump was the key that unlocked their global expansion objectives.
Now they are looking forward to ‘Infiltration Part II - The final nail in the coffin of democracy’.
Don’t fall for it.
53% of white women...
You forgot to mention RBGs decision to not step down when President Obama asked her to because she thought Hilary was going to win, thats once extra seat that could have been had even with Trump winning. Elections do have consequences..
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I thought about this when I was listening Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay, but then I remembered, state legislatures have criminally underfunded the HBCUs on purpose. You had Tennessee State admins up there practically begging for their "back pay" so they can build more housing for the students...they are literally proving Separate but equal was and is BS
Morgan state got into it with the last Governor who denied money that was due to them. He straight up said he rather use that money for new gambling opportunities.