re: More than a third of white students lie about their race on college applications….

I wish I had a nickel for every woman I have met that claimed she’s part NA.

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If white people are so privileged, why would they want to claim any other race but white? Hmmm

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In '99 my military boss found out my Grandma was Cherokee...dude TOLD me:

"One day soon promotion will be based on balancing the spreadsheet to mirror the population, you need to claim it."

He was a black guy.

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beyond sad.

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Yes, you are incredibly sad. Pathetic even.

So long as American citizens continue to blame the "other party" for our problems instead of the entire government, we will continue to decline. They have us right where they want us.

The fact that there’s even a section that asks you your race is stupid to begin with. I’ve always thought that shite was dumb since I was a kid filling them out in grade school. If we’re as equal opportunity as we say we are, then why ask?

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So long as American citizens continue to blame the "other party" for our problems instead of the entire government, we will continue to decline.

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In many cases you are right. This is not one of those cases.

This equity and diversity bullshite is 100% purely progressive ideology.

I see many in this thread agree. But I don't think race should even be apart of a college application.

Set your qualifications as a university. And you accept students in based off of if they meet those minimum standards that have already been set. Imo, I think this would be a way of raising retention and graduation rates on college campuses as well. By lowering standards, you're letting in a bunch of kids who are in way over their head coming into college.

I fully believe black students and other minority students are capable of rising to the occasion across the board and being accepted to the most prestigious institutions, but in order to do so you have to quit lowering the standards.

I know Biden would literally never do it. But I think this would be a great stance for a future presidential candidate to run on. Outlawing the use of considering race on college campuses. Make it a law that no publicly funded university can place anywhere on the application. If colleges want to track their race numbers, then they can just do a census of the students who are already enrolled and registered.

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Is there a way to find out without giving out your dna. I don’t want to do that

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Start researching your genealogy. Start interviewing your aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. then start gathering old clerk of court files, marriage certificates, military records, etc.

You'll start going down rabbit holes like crazy but it's fun. I helped my aunt a little, years ago.

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C on Z is the most successful troll in the history of this site

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He’s trolling but he also believes much of what he says

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I wish I had a nickel for every woman I have met that claimed she’s part NA

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Strangely, many are a small part.

In the trail of tears debacle, a bunch of whiteys let natives settle along the way (against fed mandate), many married into the populations of rednecks.

So most North Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi folks have some in their past.
The rest of the regions tribes just stayed put and slowly intermingled.