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Are you joking??? He's clearly saying that if you're a minority and are "good enough" to clear the much lower standards minorities are held up to for college admissions you're not gonna have any incentive to work harder than that and match the effort of top white or asian high school students. If someone told me that all I needed was an 1100 SAT and low 3s GPA to get into an Ivy I probably would have chucked my books and played video games.


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he's not clearly saying that at all. what is clear is he pretty flippant about the disparity in SAT scores across race as if those in a lower socioeconomic bracket dont have real challenges in attaining those SAT scores.

why focus on the exception to the rule - the student that would score well above average if he blows off studying but score high enough to get into college? the rule is black scores are lower than white scores across the board.

im not sure why you are so steadfast in interpreting his statements. you staunchly defended him and told me how i should interpret another person's post. ive read enough of his posts in the past and think he can speak for himself.

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Do you have a complex or something ????

Simply put if my job requires me to run a piece of equipment that my life depends on I want the best person possible to be designing, maintaining, building etc.

If i'm flying a plane, fighter jet, space shuttle, sailing in a boat, riding in a HumVee a Stryker, my ford ranger, or the forklift in a warehouse. I want the best possible person ensuring my saftey.

I DON'T CARE IF THEY ARE purple, black, red, white, orange, yellow, green, blue WTF would I care about someone's race.

I just want the best person qualified for the job.

As far as the sitting on the couch and let's go party thing please stop attacking me it was meant in generality.

There are prob just as many or more lazy ass white people who are collecting welfare and other social programs because they are too lazy to get off the couch.

It does not matter what race you are if your getting paid to sit at home and do nothing and driving a lexus your going to cry foul the second someone tells you to get a Job.

Here's a little story for you about me in case you still think I'm a racist.

I was TDY to Camp Shelby Mississippi after Katrina the storm wrecked the army base and their equipment needed repair to get ready for their Iraq deployment.

Me and my partner went to lunch at a little place on the way to the base. Inside I was sitting next to 3 OLD white dudes who were constantly making comments about the table full of black people across the way. I proceeded to ask the old men if they could keep it to themselves. I was told in so much a nice way to piss off. I told the senior citizens to GFT's. As the waitress came over and asked me and Sarge to leave I understood that racism is still alive and well in the south.

But I will never change my stance on any lazy person who's milking my tax dollars watching judge judy all day on my dime I don't care what color you are.