Affömative Actiön

Is it just me or does afirmative action piss you off in the kind of way to the poi`nt where `you just `want t`o say wh`y not? Un`derprivale`dged kid`s in the `U`.S.A`. have `so man`y disa`dvantages` to `life c`ompaired `to e`very `sing`le `whi`te `pers`on, `becau`se just `becau`se we `are ``whit`e mak`es us` a `bi`t `more` pri`val`ed`ged` by `defau`lt. Its` sa`d to `say `but `its` t`he tr`uth`.
`
``I t`hink `that `the `ban `on` a`ffi`rm`ativ`e a`ctio`n s`hou`ld `be `ov`er`, it`s be`en `dra`ggin`g on `for` too` `lon`g an`d `som`eone `nee`ds `a cha`nce`. `It `cant` j`ust be `the `wh`ite `peop`le who `go `to `scho`ol`.` All `o`ther` `ra`ce`s ha`ve s`o m`uch` to `of`f`e`r to t`he `w`or```ld. The fight over equality and opportunity has been for nearly 400 years. I don't understand why it is so difficult to have a little bit of diversity as a campus. Yes, there may be a spot or two taken away from a more qualified student, but if that student can get into this school, that means they can get into another equally good and qualified school to teach them. Just quit this stupid act and stop being fucking racist you college administrator assholes.

Your Not a Poor Black Kid

I thought that the article posted by Forbes's Gene Marks was in many ways ridiculous and a little over kill on his part. Some ideas and things he said had truth and were good thoughts such as:

"But that doesn’t mean that the prospects are impossible for those kids from the inner city.  It doesn’t mean that there are no opportunities for them.   Or that the 1% control the world and the rest of us have to fight over the scraps left behind.  I don’t believe that.  I believe that everyone in this country has a chance to succeed."

But that was about it. He spent most of his time talking about the tools that he could use to succeed if he was a poor black kid in the inner city. But he didn't seem to be geared towards helping anyone, I got the impression he was just getting paid to post all of those different "tools" and websites like Skype, Evernote and Google Scholar. He was more of a bilboard than help. There are some ideas I agree on, like the one I posted above, and the ones President Obama said. But I think he expressed his ideas and thoughts of large amount of stupidity that poor black kids carry. I don't believe that anyone, poor or rich, black or white, young or old, needs a fat, balding and middle aged man telling them how to succeed in life. And especially children from the inner city who don't have the resources your talking about. They may know exactly what they need to do but to do it is very difficult, more difficult than just going on the free computer that cool man from the architecture firm just gave you and your family for no apparent reason. I can't speak for any inner city child who doesn't have it as good as others, or me/people in the rich ass North Shore. I don't think it was Gene Marks place to speak about this topic. I think it rather should have been someone who has succeeded from the inner city like Gene talked about. Someone who actually made an example, not a middle aged white man who had everything handed to him.

I think he kind of deserves the comments and remarks he got. It wasn't his place to say those things.

Hidden Bias

There is a hidden bias in anyone and everyone. I took this stupid survey, and I don't call it stupid because I don't like the fact that I had to take it, but because it is a hidden bias survey. It itself has hidden bias that are try to exploit false hidden biases in the test taker.

I find out that this test, put a label on me, and others. Categorizing me with the results of:

Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between European American and African American.

I believe this to be true about myself. Although the next person can tell you (the reader) that I am the most bias of the bias, that I hate blacks, I loath those of other religions. But it's not true. Like said in some reading before I took the test, there are hidden biases in ourselves that we obviously don't know are there, hence the title hidden bias. We all have self deceptions. I am a smoker (an example used in the reading prior to the test, and something I relate to) and I think I smoke only 6 cigarettes a day... maximum. But I probably smoke more, sometimes less, who knows? Unless I keep track of every cigarette I smoke, but that's also like keeping track of every time I say the word nigger, spik, kike, faggot, pussy, cunt, bitch, asshole, gringo, whore, retard, fat-ass, skank. That is my hidden bias, although I don't see it as offending anyone or as a direct insult to anyone specifically. It's just there, I say it, the next person says it, whether they are white or black. And my mind tells me its no big deal, because its a self deception. EVERYONE HAS THEM, self deceptions that is, which ultimately are hidden biases. 

I think these tests, studies, surveys, whatever you want to call them, are bullshit and should be looked upon with the significance of the next blade of grass. Although someone may say that the blade of grass I'm talking about is the next cause of a butterfly effect. It gets plucked from the rich soil it calls home and the next tsunami hits California and thousands are dead. I may think that person is a complete moron, but that's my bias, maybe not hidden or at all a self deception, but its related to the both. Because there's more than that, I know for sure. And the thing is, the statement above about that person being a moron, is a stereotype, it's me being prejudice, me being biased, and for fucks sake, this person could be white, I'm white, that means I'm prejudice agains my own race, I'm racist towards me, I'm stereotyping myself! They could be black, they could be brown, green, orange, pink, or completely colorless. No matter what, there is a prejudice, there are stereotypes, there are bias opinions. You can't take that away from anything no matter how much you change it. 

Tomato:

A white man says, "tomato," accenting the 'a' and the 'o'

A black man says, "tomato," accenting the 'a' and the 'o'

An Indian man says, "tomato," accenting the 'a' and the 'o'

A Chinese man says, "tomato," accenting the 'a' and the 'o'

Its all the same word, the same accentuation's, but the white man is biased to the way he says it versus the way the Chinese man says it and the Indian man is biased to his pronunciation to the black mans pronunciation.  And the Chinese man is biased to the way the Indian man says tomato with the same exact accentuation's on the same letters. But their way is wrong and his way is right, no matter who is saying it and who is listening to it. Prejudice is focused too much on whites versus blacks, yes, unfortunately it is way too common among people in America, but its also extremely common everywhere else between everyone else. 

The white man may not be classified as a racist by this stupid test, but he is in fact a racist because the prefers the way he says tomato versus the Indian mans saying when it is the same fucking thing. This test proves nothing, it just proves that some people have the ability to think fast and catch onto FORCED patterns and repeat them until forced to a new pattern than others and some people just have absolutely shitty hand-eye coordination. And because they have that shitty hand-eye coordination they are classified as racist with a slight, moderate or large bias towards 'European Whites or African Americans." 

As much as I have heard, from all the friends of color I have, the proper and most appreciated term is black, because not all black people are fucking African American. And this stupid test calls me a racist...