From: Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks)
Subject: Re: Racist/Sexist Role Models
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:28:48 GMT

>>Many colleges provide special preferred academic treatment for Blaks.
>>These include lower admission standards (in effect, adding points to
>>SAT
>>scores, etc.), tutoring, mentoring, organization memberships, which
>>are

>I don't agree with lowering admission standards but the fact remains that inner
>city schools where most AfAm attend are not adequate for college prep and the 
>schools in suburbia are.  How do you solve the problem of a bright AfAm
>student 
>that has a lot of potential not being able to get into college because
>his high
>school was crap?

How does such a problem differ from that of a bright other than Blak student
that has a lot of potential not being able to get into college because her
or his high school was crap?

>Also what is preferential about tutoring.

If access to said tutoring is based on race, it is, by definition, racist.

>At SFSU and SJSU I was a tutor for
>my time to the AfAm organizations and not the white?  I don't think so.

The fact that you are a racist is independent of whether you think you are 
or not.

>Since when have white engineering or any other students had a problem getting
>a white tutor?  One reason for having AfAm tutors is the problems we experience
>are a lot different from white students.  If a white student asked for help i
>wouldn't refuse but I didn't look in the halls for white students to tutor like
>I did AfAm either.
>
>As far as mentors go.  When was the last time a white student had a problem
>finding a white professional with the same type of career goals as he/she?
>Now ask how many AfAm engineers most high schools students see.

The first flaw in your thinking is that if what you claim were true, the Caucasian
students need no assistance, that why are such programs overtly denied
them?  The second flaw is that you are engaging in blatent racial
sterotyping. Your notion of a absolute racial division with no Caucasians
in need of tutoring and mentoring and all Blaks in need of tutoring
and mentoring is racist and untrue. Although your apparently feable
mind may have trouble comprehending this, there are many Blaks who
are academically prepared and well-exposed to role models. They don't
need special preferred help, they don't deserve it, and their presence
denies access to the truly needy who had the misfortune of being
born with what is deemed an unworthy race. And the third flaw is
your racist notion that a Blak student must only have Blak role models.



>>denied Caucasian students. Perhaps you didn't realize such advantages
>>made available to you were race restricted.
>
>White student have never had problems as a whole with all the things you list.
>AfAm students have had serious problems in those areas.  
>whites have had the biggest quota system in ameriKKKa.  When you deny AfAm and
>other people of color admission to an institution you are gcreating a 100%
>white quota.

Could you name this mythical institution?

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