[sconley]

Re: Chinese-Canadian Biker, 83, Demands Formal Apology

College Tuition IS FREE for African Americans... It comes in the form of government grants and scholarships... Millions of these dollars go unused each year due to there being no demand for it. I got an idea, let's make everybody happy and just hand out University Diplomas to African Americans when the graduate high school? This will certainly help reimburse the slavery they have been subjected to during their lives and help remove the guilt I feel for having them down on my plantation... This is such an assinine post I hate to dignify it with a response. Who knows though, now that the Ten Commandments has the right to sit beside the Bill of Rights, perhaps the next thing our government looks into will be this issue. I hope the present day African tribal chiefs also feel as guilty as you want us to, as it was their forefathers that SOLD their own people to the europeans 300 years ago. Let's get off this... The Irish were ***** on, along with many other boatloads of Eastern Europeans when they arrived here... They worked their ass off, took whatever jobs they could get, learned the language, etc... Slowly they were accepted and then respected. Today all of these people from various countries of origins are celebrated in America for the various talents they have brought and added to the american culture... It's called cultural pluralism... But you can't legislate it; you have to earn it.

 

[sconley]

Re: Not all African Americans get free college tuition

"Equal opportunity to compete" is an oxymoron... It doesn't make any friggin sense but sounds good in the political arena (for exactly that reason)... Hook, line, and sinker you seem to have gobbled it up from your favorite politician's talk show. But c'mon man... This is real life, this isn't the special olympics. I'm white, I'm dating a first generation mexican, I have black friends, my brother in law is Chinese. He came here from China when he was 12... He had no handouts, he has school loans over a quarter of a million dollars and he's just finishing up his final fellowship and will be a full-fledged heart surgeon in 11 months... He's 35 and still in school as a general surgeon, as a doctor, and with an undergrad degree from Cal tech in engineering. And (so far) I have made more money than him becuase I'm a lazy american looking for a quick buck. But he didn't ask, didn't want any friggin handouts or "opportunities to compete." He accepted and mastered the challenge of learning proper english in his teens. He's not third or fourth generation, he's an immigrant, and he's done more in 23 years than most do in three or four generations of complaining how the system isn't fair. It's not that the system is unfair or too hard, it's that the average american is too lazy to compete at the level that they dream.