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Am finishing a paper on #StayMadAbby and the myths I have learned that people actually believe about affirmative action are beyond wrong.
I have had these conversations with white people who genuinely think HBCU's & the United Negro College Fund are unfair advantageshttps://twitter.com/iSmashFizzle/status/892557827675480064 …
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Myth #1: PoC benefit the most from AA. Fact: Per stats, white women benefit most from AA. Angry Abby almost shot herself in the foot.
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Oh, I know, right? Another yth: AA candidates do worse than "regular" applicants at high selectivity schools.
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That myth is premised on the lie that all AA candidates are underachievers.
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Another myth: the original point of AA is to increase diversity of student body! No! To redress historic exclusions!
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Yes b/c white Americans hoped to increase diversity in 1961 but figured it still made sense to fight integration and the CRM then too.
End of conversation
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This is how you know whites privilege exists: no other race is allowed to be that ignorant and live to tell about it.
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Like every other college isn't a Historically White College?
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Whites who feel discriminated against by HBCUs are the same people who unironically ask "since there's BET, where's White Entertainment TV?"
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SMGDMFH
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Those people are idiots
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Not really
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My heart!
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I'm embarrassed to admit that I know quite a few who believe that. It still shocks me when i hear it.
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