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HOWEVER, big picture, buchannan, despite his credentials, merits, experiences, insights etc. (let's give the devil his due), really screwed the pooch on this one and maddow called him out on it eloquently.
i think i'm in love
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My brother in law is ready to get into his field, having completed his education and the family quickly composed a list of contacts of people that would hire him because of their personal relationship.
I don't have that or anything like that. In my family, I'm only the second person to have finished my college education. My parents didn't pay for it, I worked in a factory and got some grants. I couldn't find work, and when I did, I was usually immediately mistrusted by some members of the staff.
At one job, in my first week, I overheard some employees saying they didn't trust me and wouldn't work for me. Most critics don't anything about going through this.
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Couldn't that be a socio-economic difference rather than a race one?
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Brava.
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So you are compelled to keep a few of these people like Pat Buchanan around. Pat is a good one to have because he once actually ran for President, actually worked in at least one Republican administration, and can usually not sound like a complete loon, that is, if he works hard at it.
Other talking heads on the same network are loath to call Pat out on his BS, Keith Olbermann being chief among them. KO will rip on Rush Limbaugh (EIB), or Sean Hannity (Fox), or Glenn Beck (Fox), or others like them, as long as they're not MSNBC people. Thus, Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough are off limits. Rachael Maddow broke this rule, and I'm sure if her show wasn't pulling decent ratings, and Pat wasn't already getting heat from without, she'd get called on the carpet for it. Still, it took some serious stones to do what she did. Brava.
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"The Faculty of Arts and Sciences made this [2005] change after a year of evaluating grading and honors in the College. That study found that over 90% of all Harvard graduates received honors degrees. The Faculty was concerned that such a high percentage of honors degrees lessened the value of the honors designation. In particular, many faculty members and students reported that the magna degree was coming to be the expected norm for students completing honors requirements in their concentrations, and that the designation of cum laude was no longer seen as recognizing distinguished work."
http://www.college.harvard.edu/academics/resources/honors_faqs.html
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http://nl.newsbank.com/cgi-bin/ngate/BG?ext_docid=0F3009FEC3B4F7E9&ext_hed=HARVARD CONSIDERS OVERHAUL OF GRADING&ext_theme=bg&pubcode=BG
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I imagine AA proponents would claim that we are losing a generation or two if education is where we truly focused our AA efforts.
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poor white kids are screwed, but in a different way than even upwardly mobile minorities
irish people and italians were treated as trash when they came to this country, but graduated to the status of white in the wake of reconstruction, when freed slaves and poor whites had the opportunity to join together in class but instead were separated by race
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"most qualified" has previously meant "breathing and has a pulse and is white and male"
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I am refraining myself from replying to your unimaginably ill-informed and borderline racist comment about how wonderful it'd be to be a Native American woman and all the wonderful perks you'd receive because I don't want to promote the comment, but let me just point out that between that and your "insulting to earn a scholarship..." statement, you're apparently a lucky lady from a lucky background. But I think you should do a little more research into these statistics before you start going off on unqualified scholarship recipients who are just getting a chance over poor little white men because of their skin color.