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Blk female w/3.96. chances for |
| Message Name: |
Too Busy Ranting To See the Truth |
| Date Posted: |
10/27/2002 |
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damn this kinda bullshit pisses me off.
i'm a minority too, and while you might be able to tell it from my skin i don't wear that fact like a badge.
who gives a shit if you're black, white, green or any mix of the three? people like you simply perpetuate the all-too-common weltanschauung among so many minorities that keep the world from being colorblind, as it well should be: namely, as a minority you're entitled to some kind of 'one-up' on the rest of the world because somewhere, some time, your forefathers were somehow oppressed by someone white. please.
this all coming from a minority himself.
throughout law school i have stayed far far away from the silly "[insert minority here] LEGAL [conference/special hiring meeting/discussion/summit/etc]" that seem to go on every week.
i like the idea of schools striving for diversity, but this should not supercede striving for excellence. sometimes it's understandable when a school admits the less-qualified handicapped daughter of the latino miner over William Preston III of Yorkshire, but minorities from sea to shining sea have interpreted such a gesture as the go signal for entitlement.
now maybe you're none of these things, and maybe i should quit procrastinating and get to work. but your insertion of "BLK" (such a weak shorthand by the way) in the subject title and repeating it again in the body "i'm a black female" (yay!) just annoyed me. you're a fabulous candidate for any of these schools as is; dont think or expect that the fact that your skin is black should make anything different.
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| Message: |
The answer to your question about who cares is: ADMISSIONS BOARDS. I'm not a URM myself, but you would have to be intentionally ignoring reality if you think that being a URM doesn't matter. The original poster appears to be bright and accomplished. Presumably she is bright enough to have done her research and realized that being black matters. I have no idea what her personal opinion is about the state of affairs is. But all your ranting isn't going to change reality, and a bright applicant will factor in all the relevant considerations.
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