there's a big divide between the first generation that existed before affirmative action...
and the second gen that were able to take advantage of it
Affirmative Action was never meant for anyone else but Black Americans to begin with. Affirmative Action was meant as a form of reparations for Black America. However, it was sabotaged quickly, with Black people being the least to benefit from it.
Watch: JFK's civil rights speech, 50 years agoJ. F. Kennedy - Affirmative Action speech.
“That order called for the admission of two clearly qualified young Alabama residents who happened to have been born Negro.
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“The Negro baby born in America today, regardless of the section of the Nation in which he is born, has about one-half as much chance of completing a high school as a white baby born in the same place on the same day, one-third as much chance of completing college, one-third as much chance of becoming a professional man, twice as much chance of becoming unemployed, about one-seventh as much chance of earning $10,000 a year, a life expectancy which is 7 years shorter, and the prospects of earning only half as much.”
“to each other that this is a land of the free except for the Negroes; that we have no second-class citizens except Negroes; that we have no class or cast system, no ghettoes, no master race except with respect to Negroes?”
(March 17/ 2011, Scholarships: Who Gets Them And Why?, NPR)"Mr. KANTROWITZ: In fact, they are less likely to receive college scholarships. And they represent about a third of the applicants, but only about 28 percent of the recipients. Caucasian students receive 72 percent of all scholarships. Minority students receive only 28 percent of all scholarships."
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Mr. KANTROWITZ: Well, the Pell Grant program, the Caucasian students receive a much lower percentage of the awards. A Caucasian student has about a 20 percent chance of receiving a Pell Grant compared to 38 percent for minority students -a little bit higher for African-American students, a little bit lower for Hispanic students. And that's because the Pell Grant is based on the income and assets of the applicant, and minority students tend to have lower income than Caucasian students.
For example, looking just at the students with incomes, family incomes under $50,000, 48 percent of Caucasian students fall into that group, whereas 77 percent of African-American students fall into that group, and overall among minority students, 71 percent."
(The Distribution of Grants and Scholarships by Race Mark Kantrowitz, September 2, 2011)
https://www.fastweb.com/nfs/fastweb/static/PDFs/Race Scholarships.pdf
(Status And Trends In The Education Of Racial And Ethnic Groups, February 22, 2019)
https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019038.pdf
Been listening to the Black Authority. Black women with several academic degrees are being undermined and surpassed by immigrants (especially Asians) with lesser degrees. These heartbreaking stories, one after the other.
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