uhg! I am so tired of the OMG BLACKS AND SLAVERY!!! Seriously. Blacks enslaved black in Africa long before whites did ... and nearly every country has some history of slavery. For gods sake MY grandmother was a slave. A WHITE SLAVE LESS THAN 70 years ago! My IQ does not have anything to do w/ the fact that she was a slave.
I wasn't saying it was a competition. Relax. What I was saying was that my grandmother was poor, she was incredibly poor. She was forced into slavery and when WW II ended she fled. She fled and by herself she worked her way up, she learned 7 languages, her husband was a waiter all his life. She didn't live a privileged life. a few generations out our lifestyle is very different from hers, yes, and the fact that I may have grown up in a much more privileged atmosphere than her may very well play a big part in how I do on standardized tests. This is not about slavery, this is about cultural differences.
Of course not, b/c you and your parents haven't subsequently been subjected to continued discrimination. If you had, things might be different.
naturally, but i think that's sort of the point - harping on slavery mainly distracts from the much-more-significant effects of recent and ongoing racist (or otherwise discriminatory) practices.
How do you know my parents aren't discriminated against, first off? Hell I know my mom is to some degree. She is a lunch lady... in a public middle school. 3/4 of the employees are Hispanic immigrants and the majority refuse to speak English (most know, not all, but when management is Hispanic the 3 non-Hispanic women are outcast). I would also like to explain that I went to a school that was, 20% across the board, in my classes I could very well be one of the few white students - in some classes I was continually discriminated against, because I wasn't an Asian in AP class
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For gods sake MY grandmother was a slave. A WHITE SLAVE LESS THAN 70 years ago!
My IQ does not have anything to do w/ the fact that she was a slave.
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What I was saying was that my grandmother was poor, she was incredibly poor. She was forced into slavery and when WW II ended she fled. She fled and by herself she worked her way up, she learned 7 languages, her husband was a waiter all his life. She didn't live a privileged life. a few generations out our lifestyle is very different from hers, yes, and the fact that I may have grown up in a much more privileged atmosphere than her may very well play a big part in how I do on standardized tests. This is not about slavery, this is about cultural differences.
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naturally, but i think that's sort of the point - harping on slavery mainly distracts from the much-more-significant effects of recent and ongoing racist (or otherwise discriminatory) practices.
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