Stop white liberal racism now!
Affirmative Action as everyone knows was set up to fight a historic wrong by how blacks were treated by whites.
But white liberals didn't put into account other minorities into their formula.
stories like below pisses me off.
COLOR-BARRED STUDENT
SHUT OUT BY SCHOOL'S RACE QUOTA
By DAN MANGAN
June 25, 2007 -- A Brooklyn mother and father got the shock of their lives when school officials informed them their brilliant 11-year-old girl was denied admission to an elite public school - solely because she's of Indian descent.
"I feel bad because I would have gotten in if I was white," Nikita Rau lamented over her failed bid to attend the Mark Twain School, IS 239, in Coney Island, a magnet school for gifted students.
It turns out Mark Twain - unlike all but one other city public school - admits students according to racial quotas established in 1974 by a federal judge who ordered the school's desegregation.
Under those quotas - which originally were intended to boost minority enrollment - 60 percent of Mark Twain's student body is set aside for white students, while 40 percent is set aside for minorities.
"This country believes in racial equality, and we should not face this in America," said Nikita's dad, Dr. Anjan Rau, a Bay Ridge resident who emigrated from India in 1982. "I think it's morally wrong!
"She's American born, and she's a U.S. citizen, and [her parents] are both U.S. citizens, but that doesn't count," said Rau, who has hired a lawyer to try to overturn the decision.
"It could hurt her chances of going to Harvard, Yale or Princeton."
When Nikita recently applied to Mark Twain, she took an admission test geared toward music students and scored a 79.
In May, the Education Department sent her parents a letter that said Nikita was not accepted - even though white students who scored lower on the same test were admitted.
Officials told the Raus that because Nikita is classified as a minority, she would need to score at least 84.4 to be accepted, while white students needed to score 77 or more.
Her mom, Dr. Kanchan Rau, said that when she discussed the disparate treatment with Schools Regional Enrollment Director Paul Helfman, "he said, 'I agree with you: It's not right; it's not fair - but there's nothing I can do.' "
Kanchan Rau said Nikita reacted with "surprise and shock" after being told her skin color was keeping her out of the school.
Education Department spokesman Andrew Jacob said, "Although we strive to make our enrollment process as equitable as possible, we must comply with the federal court order."
The school system has only one other school, IS 227 in Queens, that operates under a court-mandated desegregation order that takes an applicant's race into account for admissions.
The Raus' lawyer, Rosemarie Arnold, last week wrote school officials, urging them to reconsider their rejection of Nikita, calling Mark Twain's quota system "antiquated," and saying, "The unconstitutional rejection of my client constitutes discrimination."
She noted that the U.S. Supreme Court currently is considering a case that could end racial quotas in schools nationwide, including Mark Twain.
Shortly after The Post began inquiring, the Raus said, they were called by a school official who told them Nikita could attend IS 98, the Bay Academy, another Coney Island school for the gifted, albeit one less competitive than Mark Twain.
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But white liberals didn't put into account other minorities into their formula.
stories like below pisses me off.
COLOR-BARRED STUDENT
SHUT OUT BY SCHOOL'S RACE QUOTA
By DAN MANGAN
June 25, 2007 -- A Brooklyn mother and father got the shock of their lives when school officials informed them their brilliant 11-year-old girl was denied admission to an elite public school - solely because she's of Indian descent.
"I feel bad because I would have gotten in if I was white," Nikita Rau lamented over her failed bid to attend the Mark Twain School, IS 239, in Coney Island, a magnet school for gifted students.
It turns out Mark Twain - unlike all but one other city public school - admits students according to racial quotas established in 1974 by a federal judge who ordered the school's desegregation.
Under those quotas - which originally were intended to boost minority enrollment - 60 percent of Mark Twain's student body is set aside for white students, while 40 percent is set aside for minorities.
"This country believes in racial equality, and we should not face this in America," said Nikita's dad, Dr. Anjan Rau, a Bay Ridge resident who emigrated from India in 1982. "I think it's morally wrong!
"She's American born, and she's a U.S. citizen, and [her parents] are both U.S. citizens, but that doesn't count," said Rau, who has hired a lawyer to try to overturn the decision.
"It could hurt her chances of going to Harvard, Yale or Princeton."
When Nikita recently applied to Mark Twain, she took an admission test geared toward music students and scored a 79.
In May, the Education Department sent her parents a letter that said Nikita was not accepted - even though white students who scored lower on the same test were admitted.
Officials told the Raus that because Nikita is classified as a minority, she would need to score at least 84.4 to be accepted, while white students needed to score 77 or more.
Her mom, Dr. Kanchan Rau, said that when she discussed the disparate treatment with Schools Regional Enrollment Director Paul Helfman, "he said, 'I agree with you: It's not right; it's not fair - but there's nothing I can do.' "
Kanchan Rau said Nikita reacted with "surprise and shock" after being told her skin color was keeping her out of the school.
Education Department spokesman Andrew Jacob said, "Although we strive to make our enrollment process as equitable as possible, we must comply with the federal court order."
The school system has only one other school, IS 227 in Queens, that operates under a court-mandated desegregation order that takes an applicant's race into account for admissions.
The Raus' lawyer, Rosemarie Arnold, last week wrote school officials, urging them to reconsider their rejection of Nikita, calling Mark Twain's quota system "antiquated," and saying, "The unconstitutional rejection of my client constitutes discrimination."
She noted that the U.S. Supreme Court currently is considering a case that could end racial quotas in schools nationwide, including Mark Twain.
Shortly after The Post began inquiring, the Raus said, they were called by a school official who told them Nikita could attend IS 98, the Bay Academy, another Coney Island school for the gifted, albeit one less competitive than Mark Twain.
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I thought quotas were specifically abolished by the last Supreme Court decision on Affirmative Action, no? I guess not (though they certainly should be).
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On the one hand, this is complete and utter total crap. And should stop.
On the other hand, as a white person, it is vaguely interesting to see these stupid policies backfire against someone other than whites or Asians for once. Around when I was attempting to attend college was the heyday of California's racially biased entrance scoring for their competitive universities in order to ensure proper racial quotas. Black and Hispanics could get in on fairly low scores, for whites it was more difficult, and if you were Asian, you had better have been Albert freaking Einstein. Except with the ability to score well on standardized tests.
The pessimistic view would be that the blacks and Hispanics were loving this, but in reality they hated it too. Mostly, because it was sure nice for them to be wandering around campus hanging with their fellow students, who all assumed that they got in completely on their skin color, whether that was the case or not. (In many cases it was NOT. Not surprisingly, the stupid policy had a way of backfiring even further. The folks that DID get in completely on the color of their skin, seemed to wash out fairly quickly. Imagine that. They were effectively setting them up to fail.) -
too bad today's ruling doesn't apply to colleges.
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All generations alive before and during the civil rights movement and segregation are going to have to die before this stuff stops completely.
Liberal guilt is a very big problem in this country but at the root of it it is also racist:
It assumes that a minority is incapable of achieving on His/Her own and will always need assistance( message: because they ARE inferior). Many people have bought in to this, including the very people who it intended to help. But the worst thing you can ever call a guilty white liberal is "racist" or "homophobic" or "sexist" - might as well be calling them a Nazi (remember Seinfeld's Michael Richards, yelling N*gger at the top of his lungs repeatedly saying "Yea, But I'm not a Racist....", Don Imus, Mel Gibson, et al).
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A Liberal Joke:
Two liberals are walking along a road and come across a man that is badly beaten and near death. One liberal looks at the other liberal and says:
"Oh My God, we have the find the person who DID this and get HIM some help"!!
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For the record, I am more of a moderate and a registered independent and did not vote for Bush. But that joke summarizes a big problem in the (far left, white) liberal camp. -
haha @ the joke:p.
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Subject: Re: Stop white liberal racism now!
I do not believe in any type
of discrimination.
Now, regarding Mark Twain:
This school is not all it is cracked up to be.
It is set in a neighborhood that is rampant with drugs and with
violence.
It is in the news 0ver the years.
My children were bright enough for Mark Twain
but I did not send them there.
Why? I value their lives over their education.
So they went to GOOD other schools, and not to Mark
Twain.
I wouldn't be so miffed at not being admitted to the school.
You probably saved your child and your family great problems.armchair_warrior wrote: Affirmative Action as everyone knows was set up to fight a historic wrong by how blacks were treated by whites.
But white liberals didn't put into account other minorities into their formula.
stories like below pisses me off.
COLOR-BARRED STUDENT
SHUT OUT BY SCHOOL'S RACE QUOTA
By DAN MANGAN
June 25, 2007 -- A Brooklyn mother and father got the shock of their lives when school officials informed them their brilliant 11-year-old girl was denied admission to an elite public school - solely because she's of Indian descent.
"I feel bad because I would have gotten in if I was white," Nikita Rau lamented over her failed bid to attend the Mark Twain School, IS 239, in Coney Island, a magnet school for gifted students.
It turns out Mark Twain - unlike all but one other city public school - admits students according to racial quotas established in 1974 by a federal judge who ordered the school's desegregation.
Under those quotas - which originally were intended to boost minority enrollment - 60 percent of Mark Twain's student body is set aside for white students, while 40 percent is set aside for minorities.
"This country believes in racial equality, and we should not face this in America," said Nikita's dad, Dr. Anjan Rau, a Bay Ridge resident who emigrated from India in 1982. "I think it's morally wrong!
"She's American born, and she's a U.S. citizen, and [her parents] are both U.S. citizens, but that doesn't count," said Rau, who has hired a lawyer to try to overturn the decision.
"It could hurt her chances of going to Harvard, Yale or Princeton."
When Nikita recently applied to Mark Twain, she took an admission test geared toward music students and scored a 79.
In May, the Education Department sent her parents a letter that said Nikita was not accepted - even though white students who scored lower on the same test were admitted.
Officials told the Raus that because Nikita is classified as a minority, she would need to score at least 84.4 to be accepted, while white students needed to score 77 or more.
Her mom, Dr. Kanchan Rau, said that when she discussed the disparate treatment with Schools Regional Enrollment Director Paul Helfman, "he said, 'I agree with you: It's not right; it's not fair - but there's nothing I can do.' "
Kanchan Rau said Nikita reacted with "surprise and shock" after being told her skin color was keeping her out of the school.
Education Department spokesman Andrew Jacob said, "Although we strive to make our enrollment process as equitable as possible, we must comply with the federal court order."
The school system has only one other school, IS 227 in Queens, that operates under a court-mandated desegregation order that takes an applicant's race into account for admissions.
The Raus' lawyer, Rosemarie Arnold, last week wrote school officials, urging them to reconsider their rejection of Nikita, calling Mark Twain's quota system "antiquated," and saying, "The unconstitutional rejection of my client constitutes discrimination."
She noted that the U.S. Supreme Court currently is considering a case that could end racial quotas in schools nationwide, including Mark Twain.
Shortly after The Post began inquiring, the Raus said, they were called by a school official who told them Nikita could attend IS 98, the Bay Academy, another Coney Island school for the gifted, albeit one less competitive than Mark Twain.
[email protected] -
It assumes that a minority is incapable of achieving on His/Her own and will always need assistance( message: because they ARE inferior).
i don't think this is true at all -
Subject: Re: Stop white liberal racism now!
armchair_warrior wrote:
Can't have been too brilliant, or they would have argued that being descended from Caucasian peoples speaking Indo-European languages in the subcontinent, that Indian ancestry meets the broad definition of white. If someone's going to go around drawing arbitrary lines, why not arbitrarily put yourself on the side of it that suits you?
June 25, 2007 -- A Brooklyn mother and father got the shock of their lives when school officials informed them their brilliant 11-year-old girl was denied admission to an elite public school - solely because she's of Indian descent.
"I feel bad because I would have gotten in if I was white," Nikita Rau lamented over her failed bid to attend the Mark Twain School, IS 239, in Coney Island, a magnet school for gifted students.
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