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An interesting experience. I have been in the military for the majority of my life so I’ve met many people from many walks of life. I work for the U.S. Army now. I serve soldiers going to various locations throughout our great empire. Of those, I find the African soldiers the most interesting. These people ended up coming from different areas of Africa; Nigeria, Chad, Senegal,…etc. I always ask them how they view the American “Black” experience. Curiously enough ALL of them, without exception, disdain American negros. They look upon them as trash and wonder how they ever got to the point where now they’re worshiped in America. See, I don’t really care that they were enslaved. If you go back far enough in history, every ethnic group had been enslaved at some point, so having been enslave doesn’t merit much consideration from me. The quote from Mr. King, above?…well…he was just begging. The worst thing you can do to a person is give them “freebees” because you think “Poor Rascal” he/she is so dumb…here you go, you poor thing. For one thing, it demeans that individual. Even those who did get that “Leg-Up” and took advantage of the opportunity given them, they, forever, will know that on their own, they would have never achieved what they achieved. That, in turn, strips them of their dignity and self-worth. that is why, whenever you see blacks in the media, they’re always having to make some remark about, “see, I did it on my own. Without ‘Whitey’s’ help”, or pumping-up their race, “Coming To America” was a very interesting movie with Eddy Murphy, about being some kind of “undercover” royalty. At the Army PX, I see t-shirt vendors with MLK and Malcom-X. All of them replete with silly slogans designed to bolster the racial self-image of blacks. They call themselves “African-Americans”, but if you’ve ever spoken to any black soldier who took part in President Clinton’s little debacle in Mogadishu, Africa, they would tell you that they are proud to be Americans and “please don’t call them African-Americans” What needs to occur in America is that we need to quit pandering to these people who are from racial minorities. White, Indo-Europeans are very quickly becoming the minorities in this nation due to uncontrolled immigration and dilution of their genetics with that of other races. I am appalled when my daughters come home, from grade school and high school, with garbage about “Harriet Tubman” and MLK; it turns my gut. I have to “re-educate” both of them to the real history of these people; Harriet Tubman was a property thief, Martin Luther King was a showboating, plagiarizing, adulterer, propagandist who pretended to be a reverend while the whole time slipping it to all those nasty white women, (not his wife). Princeton admissions strives to get a diverse cultural demographic of student, as do all other schools, whether they be law schools or medical schools, or whatever. Affirmative Action covers-over the true successes of whichever race makes it to these top institutions. It is a philosophy of insult and it really sends the message, “You’re not smart enough, but I’ll let you have it anyway because it’s my Christian duty to do so”

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Originally posted by noumena

I suppose I am neutral or simply undecided on this issue, so I won’t comment on Affirmative Action; nonetheless, I have quite a minor, though funny, contretemps I’d like to relate:

During my sophomore year at Princeton, one of my floor neighbors was a black guy. He was a very likable guy, and I often would go over to his dorm very late at night and stay up and watch NBA basketball with him. One time, we were looking at a football website, which listed underneath each prospective high school athlete the colleges to which they had been extended admission offers, and along with that, their SAT scores. At any rate, on one athlete’s profile, seeing that he was extremely coveted just by glancing at the number of very prestigious schools that had openly pursued him, such as Berkeley, Stanford, and BC, I expected his SAT score to have been at least a 1200. However, upon seeing that it was barely 900, I offhandedly remarked that it was a pretty pathetic score, –an awkward silence– after which my roommate rather indignantly remarked that his was scarcely better. I had the rather unenviable task of having to conceal my horror at finding out it was not the case that everyone at Princeton came in with at least a 1400 SAT score, and at the same time try to explain myself out of the situation; but in the end, I admitted to him that I had been not only unaware of AA, but that I had also been insensitive. If I didn’t apologize enough, my very visible discombobulation let him know how truly sorry I was.

Anyway, I was unfamiliar with Affirmative Action then, and so I guess I should not feel so bad about it.

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