Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:14 pm
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:40 pm
The whole med school thing really bothers me. Why do we have different standards for different people based on their race? I went to a black surgeon the other day, and in the back of my mind, I couldn't help but think "you may not be as good as other surgeons," because med schools discriminate.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:44 pm
Agreed. And the flip side is I want the strapping athletic black man to carry me out of a burning building rather than the scrawny white woman.
Because I like big black men,
Because I like big black men,
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:48 pm
This should be a massive national scandal, and not aimed at him, but rather the entire broken system of Affirmative Action.
Pretending that students need X to be qualified to become doctors and then waiving that requirement based on the color of their skin IS racism. It also shows how arbitrary that X becomes when a school has different motivations than profit.
Pretending that students need X to be qualified to become doctors and then waiving that requirement based on the color of their skin IS racism. It also shows how arbitrary that X becomes when a school has different motivations than profit.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 2:05 pm
“I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes, and applied to medical school as a black man,” he wrote on his website, AlmostBlack.com.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 3:11 pm
Go ahead, y'all, and speak out publicly against affirmative action, just make sure you have your GoFundYourself account ready to go in case the excellent people notice your opinion.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 3:50 pm
I have about 4 acres of solution waiting for me. Going to implement it soonly.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 7:29 pm
Pretending that students need X to be qualified to become doctors and then waiving that requirement based on the color of their skin IS racism.
Sadly it's all baked into the institutional frameworks too thoroughly to get rid of it. Depending on the accreditation agency, many schools are required to have a minimum percentage of various races in their programs, regardless of other qualifications. There are massive government grants geared towards boosting the number of minority applicants. The system doesn't care one bit about how good those applicants are, though.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 7:40 pm
Another reason to move away from the college model.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 7:59 pm
Jeb Bush disagrees with you.TPRJones wrote:Sadly it's all baked into the institutional frameworks too thoroughly to get rid of it. Depending on the accreditation agency, many schools are required to have a minimum percentage of various races in their programs, regardless of other qualifications. There are massive government grants geared towards boosting the number of minority applicants. The system doesn't care one bit about how good those applicants are, though.Pretending that students need X to be qualified to become doctors and then waiving that requirement based on the color of their skin IS racism.
Bush signed an executive order implementing the "One Florida" plan in 1999, which banned racial preference in state school admissions. It also created a program guaranteeing that the top 20 percent of high school graduates would gain admission to a post-secondary institution and some funding for need-based financial aid.
Florida is now one of a handful of states preventing race-based admissions policies and the only one to do so by executive order. Other states had done so by ballot initiative, a route that ran into obstacles in Florida when supporters tried and failed to put a constitutional amendment on the 2000 ballot.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:16 pm
When a republican does it it's racist.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:49 pm
Good luck to Florida. But they're now missing out on a bunch of grants, which I'm sure makes some people unhappy.
And I wonder what the accreditation consequences were.
And I wonder what the accreditation consequences were.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:24 pm
And I wonder what the accreditation consequences were.
If the institution has enough clot, I don't think it matters to an employer. If every school in the Ivy League lost their shit overnight, the names would still get you in doors.
Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:49 pm
