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PieLover

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I just learned that my grandma was born in Cuban making me 25% Cuban. Do I have to prove this to the government or something so I can fill out job and college applications under my newfound Cuban race?
 
dont be scammin uncle sam with fake claims of race. convenient how you found this out right before its time to fill out scholarship applications. hmmm...i smell something wet.....
 
I think your race is on your birth certificate...is it not?

Has being cuban hurt your chances at being successful in life(as in schools, jobs) is the question.
 
But for real, I think its horrible that your trying to play up your chances because of your so called new found race. Which I believe doesn't qualify for aa benifits.

If your certificate of birth says white caucasian at birth then thats what you are.
 
If your certificate of birth says white caucasian at birth then thats what you are.
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Are you sure, because I know a guy who figured out he was 1/128th (so barely anything) and he got a full scholarship

dont be scammin uncle sam with fake claims of race. convenient how you found this out right before its time to fill out scholarship applications. hmmm...i smell something wet.....
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I dont understand how its a fake claim when I actually am.

Welcome to Earth buddy.
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Welcome to America buddy.
 
If you didn't know that you were a minority before, then you probably haven't experienced the same sort of disadvantage many minorities face. I don't think you're the sort of person most affirmative action programs are designed to help. Look at the bright side, though: no one's probably ever called you a [insert racial slur], right?
 
[quote name='PieLover']Are you sure, because I know a guy who figured out he was 1/128th (so barely anything) and he got a full scholarship [/QUOTE]

Well, I suggest you talk to him for the process involved, then.

Posting here is just gonna piss people off.
 
[quote name='DuelLadyS']Well, I suggest you talk to him for the process involved, then.

Posting here is just gonna piss people off.[/QUOTE]damn right, im tired of not getting scholarships, job offers, etc. because im not a minority or a woman. a guy i went to school with got a full scholarship because he was half black. his gpa? 2.3!! A FREAKIN "C" AVERAGE STUDENT. WHAT THE HELL! IM SORRY BUT THATS JUST WRONG!!
 
[quote name='thagoat']damn right, im tired of not getting scholarships, job offers, etc. because im not a minority or a woman. a guy i went to school with got a full scholarship because he was half black. his gpa? 2.3!! A FREAKIN "C" AVERAGE STUDENT. WHAT THE HELL! IM SORRY BUT THATS JUST WRONG!![/QUOTE]

I completely agree with you.
 
You are just hurting your Cuban brothers by doing this. Think of all the people that will think twice everytime they walk into the offices of a Cuban doctor. If you really are proud of your Cuban heritage, you need to work to earn your spot in College legitimately.
 
Shit with the cost of college these days I say take as much free money as you can and good luck. I know when I was in high school they were telling us to fill out scholarship applications to places for left handed people, or people who wear glasses.
 
There's no point in exploiting the system when you take away from someone else who really needs the boost.


[quote name='thagoat']damn right, im tired of not getting scholarships, job offers, etc. because im not a minority or a woman. a guy i went to school with got a full scholarship because he was half black. his gpa? 2.3!! A FREAKIN "C" AVERAGE STUDENT. WHAT THE HELL! IM SORRY BUT THATS JUST WRONG!![/QUOTE]

Ya sure, we all know minorities and woman have it so great and such an easy time getting ahead in companies and making tons of money. Where's the white affirmative action? We're being discriminated against and we just let them walk all over us!
 
[quote name='Kayden']I made out with a Korean chick and a puerto rican. Can I get free money too?[/QUOTE]


You had a korean chick, a puerto rican chick and you want money? Greedy bastard.
 
I think I'm eligible for free college and all of the other perks that come with being Native American.

However, I'm not Native American. I'm, like, 1/10th. ;)

I think you have to live on a reservation to recieve any of this reparation, though. I've never looked into it.
 
[quote name='Brak']I think I'm eligible for free college and all of the other perks that come with being Native American.

However, I'm not Native American. I'm, like, 1/10th. ;)

I think you have to live on a reservation to recieve any of this reparation, though. I've never looked into it.[/QUOTE]

I believe the cutoff is 1/8 native american, you just missed the cut :lol:
 
You don't have to live on a reservation.

I know that I have a good part of Native American in me, but I never took advantage of it. I keep thinking about using it to use certain herbs and other natural ingredients that The White Man has deemed illegal but can't oppress the Native American use, for it's a part of their culture and spirituality. ;)
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']




Ya sure, we all know minorities and woman have it so great and such an easy time getting ahead in companies and making tons of money.[/QUOTE]its true where i work at. i was in the office when they were making decisions on new supervisors. our hr manager said point blank" she would be a good candidate because she's black and she's a woman. that would make us look good." i walked out and acted like i was going to the bathroom. boy, i was pissed. our company strongly encourages the hiring of minorities. thats fine with me, but can they at least be qualified for the freaking position? is that too much to ask? hiring should not be done by skin color or gender. it should not be a factor at all, and if it is well, they call that discrimination.
 
[quote name='BigSpoonyBard']I believe the cutoff is 1/8 native american, you just missed the cut :lol:[/QUOTE]

Reallllllllly....My great grandmother was a full-blooded Native American. Would that qualify as 1/8? :lol:
 
[quote name='Psydrogen']You don't have to live on a reservation.

I know that I have a good part of Native American in me, but I never took advantage of it. I keep thinking about using it to use certain herbs and other natural ingredients that The White Man has deemed illegal but can't oppress the Native American use, for it's a part of their culture and spirituality. ;)[/QUOTE]

Plenty of spritualities use substances beyond the wine and flatbread that mainstream christians use. It's total BS that the American government supresses non-mainstream spiritual activities that have been condemned by theocratic proponents in the white house and congress, while giving free advertising for the birth of a popular spiritual guru/carpenter. If you get an exemption from the Man then that's bully for you, but this is America, shouldn't everyone be free (and not just people that the government gives priveleges to as a blundering attempt at reparations)
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']You had a korean chick, a puerto rican chick and you want money? Greedy bastard.[/QUOTE]

Depends on how thick the Korean chick was. Maybe the man deserves payment :lol:
 
[quote name='camoor']Plenty of spritualities use substances beyond the wine and flatbread that mainstream christians use. It's total BS that the American government supresses non-mainstream spiritual activitiesQUOTE] the problem is every crackhead and dope fiend in america would exploit any religious loop hole to use drugs. its sad but true. i can hear em in the court room now. "but judge, sniffin coke off that bitches titties is my religion."
 
[quote name='thagoat']the problem is every crackhead and dope fiend in america would exploit any religious loop hole to use drugs. its sad but true. i can hear em in the court room now. "but judge, sniffin coke off that bitches titties is my religion."[/QUOTE]

LOL that's true.

Yet I also think that America needs to get off of it's "only alcohol allowed" kick - come on it's the new millenium - ban the really bad stuff and then just tax the hell out of the rest of it.
 
[quote name='PieLover']I just learned that my grandma was born in Cuban making me 25% Cuban. Do I have to prove this to the government or something so I can fill out job and college applications under my newfound Cuban race?[/QUOTE]
Its called Cuba.

And where is all this info on getting full scholorships?
 
[quote name='vietgurl']Do Asians benefit from Affirmative Action?

Damnit, should have applied to more Ivy Leagues[/QUOTE]
CA doesn't have AA but they do have something else but I don't remember what its called.
 
I got a scholarship from the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, and I'm Turkish. Everyone (even me) figured it was a long shot, but they were one of the few organizations that don't have a race/gender/sexual preference requirement (boy, to be a minority lesbian, that opens up tons of scholarships...). College is too expensive for most, I think any legal advantage you can use is fine.
 
[quote name='thagoat']damn right, im tired of not getting scholarships, job offers, etc. because im not a minority or a woman. a guy i went to school with got a full scholarship because he was half black. his gpa? 2.3!! A FREAKIN "C" AVERAGE STUDENT. WHAT THE HELL! IM SORRY BUT THATS JUST WRONG!![/QUOTE]
listen i'm tired of white guys complaining about not getting any opportunities. if your ancestors hadn't brought mine over on a shitty ass boat and made them slave away picking cotton, you wouldn't have to worry about affirmative action. Just because slavery is over, doesn't mean you guys are done trying to make good. Suck it up and try harder next time.
 
[quote name='depascal22']listen i'm tired of white guys complaining about not getting any opportunities. if your ancestors hadn't brought mine over on a shitty ass boat and made them slave away picking cotton, you wouldn't have to worry about affirmative action. Just because slavery is over, doesn't mean you guys are done trying to make good. Suck it up and try harder next time.[/QUOTE]

Wouldn't you be taken more seriously if you took the time to use proper grammar, punctuation and capitalization?
 
[quote name='JSweeney']Wouldn't you be taken more seriously if you took the time to use proper grammar, punctuation and capitalization?[/QUOTE]

Sorry, I was rushed because I was so pissed. I wasn't pissed at the poster but at a kid on Xbox Live. This kid thought it would be cool to yell nigger over and over in the lobby of Crimson Skies. So after hearing all that junk, I come here and people are complaining about not getting opportunities? So here's my updated post.

Maybe if the Caucasian masters from 400 years ago hadn't made incredibly horrible deals with tribal warlords of Western Africa, there wouldn't be a huge amount of "African American/Negro/Black" people in the United States of America. I'm sorry that the white man has fewer opportunities today. No one cares that the white man has taken every good job and every spot in the universities for nearly 400 years. We wouldn't be at this place now if white people had let it go after the Civil War, but we had to have Jim Crow for another 100 years. I wish we could open casinos on the sites of old plantations so we could get some revenge like the Native Americans.

Sorry to bring you guys down but race isn't a joke to me.
 
[quote name='depascal22']Sorry, I was rushed because I was so pissed. I wasn't pissed at the poster but at a kid on Xbox Live. This kid thought it would be cool to yell nigger over and over in the lobby of Crimson Skies. So after hearing all that junk, I come here and people are complaining about not getting opportunities? So here's my updated post.

Maybe if the Caucasian masters from 400 years ago hadn't made incredibly horrible deals with tribal warlords of Western Africa, there wouldn't be a huge amount of "African American/Negro/Black" people in the United States of America. I'm sorry that the white man has fewer opportunities today. No one cares that the white man has taken every good job and every spot in the universities for nearly 400 years. We wouldn't be at this place now if white people had let it go after the Civil War, but we had to have Jim Crow for another 100 years. I wish we could open casinos on the sites of old plantations so we could get some revenge like the Native Americans.

Sorry to bring you guys down but race isn't a joke to me.[/QUOTE]

That sounds more like reparations. While that is good in theory, it probably isn't feasible or worth the toll it would take on public money (and any cuts to pay for it would effect poor minorities most). You seem to view affirmative action as a less drastic form. To me affirmative action should be to correct the social imbalances created by things such as you mentioned and more. When things eventually become equal (if they ever do) then affirmative action should be done away with. And the native americans aren't really getting much revenge if you've ever seen a reservation.

Also critics often think affirmative action goes much farther than it actually does.
 
[quote name='depascal22']listen i'm tired of white guys complaining about not getting any opportunities. if your ancestors hadn't brought mine over on a shitty ass boat and made them slave away picking cotton, you wouldn't have to worry about affirmative action. Just because slavery is over, doesn't mean you guys are done trying to make good. Suck it up and try harder next time.[/QUOTE]


You really should research the slave trade more. In no way am I saying its right or that white people didn't play a part in it, but Africans treated it like a business. Africans were selling their fellow Africans to the slave traders to be taken to other parts of the world.
 
That was a long time ago so why do minority's have to keep bringing it up. NEWSFLASH: It was our ancestors...not us that had slaves and treated blacks poorly.

Why give minority's a "free ride" just because our ancestor's messed up.
 
im ecuadorian and turkish, and not once did i rely on my race to get me anywhere, i busted my ass through highschool and in college, and i got scholarships fair and square, you should do the same OP
 
[quote name='greydemise']im ecuadorian and turkish, and not once did i rely on my race to get me anywhere, i busted my ass through highschool and in college, and i got scholarships fair and square, you should do the same OP[/QUOTE]

werd.
 
[quote name='greydemise']im ecuadorian and turkish, and not once did i rely on my race to get me anywhere, i busted my ass through highschool and in college, and i got scholarships fair and square, you should do the same OP[/QUOTE]
I'm white and of Jewish decent. I got my balls busted all through life for not being Christian AND I missed out on a lot of scholarships due to being white and of no perceiveable minority (they don't count Atheist as a minority). Probably the worst of both worlds.
 
Nobody living today has ever been a slave or owned a slave, nor knows somebody who has. I think there is too much talk about reparations and such in society. Why would someone living today be entitled to reparations when they were never a slave and in most cases haven't been discriminated against by race more than anyone else has for their gender, race, or sexuality?

It is just as unfair that a more qualified white male is passed over for a college scholarship of job because of his race as it was when blacks were segregated and women were often passed over for management positions in businesses. Scholarships and jobs should go to the most qualified candidates, PERIOD. Why aren't there more scholarships that are only available to white people? This would cause such an outrage, yet scholarships available exclusively to any other race are ok. I mean I think it is perfectly fair that scholarships given out by a minority organization limit them to just their own race, but why can't the same apply to White Americans? As a white male I feel that it is unfair that there are no scholarships that I can apply for exclusively because of my race, while others who in all honesty have the exact same opportunities in education that I do have numerous scholarship opportunities that I am banned from.
 
[quote name='lionheart4life']Nobody living today has ever been a slave or owned a slave, nor knows somebody who has. I think there is too much talk about reparations and such in society. Why would someone living today be entitled to reparations when they were never a slave and in most cases haven't been discriminated against by race more than anyone else has for their gender, race, or sexuality?

It is just as unfair that a more qualified white male is passed over for a college scholarship of job because of his race as it was when blacks were segregated and women were often passed over for management positions in businesses. Scholarships and jobs should go to the most qualified candidates, PERIOD. Why aren't there more scholarships that are only available to white people? This would cause such an outrage, yet scholarships available exclusively to any other race are ok. I mean I think it is perfectly fair that scholarships given out by a minority organization limit them to just their own race, but why can't the same apply to White Americans? As a white male I feel that it is unfair that there are no scholarships that I can apply for exclusively because of my race, while others who in all honesty have the exact same opportunities in education that I do have numerous scholarship opportunities that I am banned from.[/QUOTE]

One thing that you cannot deny is that racism is inherent in our society. Minorities are constantly passed over for jobs they are qualified for, they are more frequently denied rent availability or mortgages, they are also frequently turned down from colleges. If you accept that racism and discrimination exist in our society (and there is no data that shows races are treated equally, and plenty that show they are not), a corollary of discrimination *against* minorities is discrimination *for* whites. That is, two sides of the same coin are that whites benefit to the extent that minorities are kept down because of race. With that in mind, the status quo which seems to make you so livid does, in fact, serve you better because you are white.

As far as reparations are concerned, that is another argument for another time; that having been said, considering the long term possibility of upward mobility (that is, improving your socioeconomic status over subsequent generations), the society you and I live in still suffers from the effects of slavery, racism, and discrimination that happened in the past. If that is not the case, then I will challenge you: show me the precise point in time where racial differences in employment levels, imprisonment levels, education levels, annual income, wealth (*not* the same thing as income), marriage rates, and within-business promotions have been equal. If there has been a point in time that minorities and whites have been roughly equal on these measures (and doubtless dozens of others), and that equality has decreased over time, then you can attribute that to something other than long-lasting effects of race-based policy (slavery and Jim Crow laws, mostly). If there has never been racial parity in these regards, then your argument holds up to nothing and is completely false in the face of all existing empirical evidence (which, I can assure you, it does).
 
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