Black Privilege? Does It Exist?

[jape]

Yes, yambs

ehhh not really unless your famous. 

 

[jayzz]

We can drop the N bomb vigorously and plentifuly

That's uh... that's about it

 

[htg designs]

We are Jedi knights when it comes to fat white chicks.

 

[freedmind2015]

We are Jedi knights when it comes to fat white chicks.

No they're just like Sand People from Star Wars...they trap what they want.

 

[htg designs]

We are Jedi knights when it comes to fat white chicks.

No they're just like Sand People from Star...they trap what they want.

that sand gets mighty wet tho
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[freedmind2015]

that sand gets mighty wet tho

They be waiting in the cut like...

 

 

[SoleByThePound]

They be waiting in the cut like...

 

 

[jape]

 

[zombie slang]

Pipe print

 

[Top Boy]

Wouldn't exactly call it a privilege but I will say if you learn how to leverage your black skin properly it can be waaaaaayyyy more beneficial than being of any other ethnicity in certain environments.

Hard to explain honestly... Typed multiple sentences trying to grasp it but I just can't seem to find the words to properly explain it atm.

 
They be waiting in the cut like...

 

 

[Brownstone]

I would say it is beneficial in the sense that most people are intimidated by you, no matter how well dressed you are. I feel like white people are scared of me whether I'm rocking the fitted or in my Armani 

I don't know, I guess I don't look at my skin that way, just another young man trying to get rich out here.

 

[sunshineblotters]

In Chicago we have a set of trains that go in and out of Chicago (not to be confused with the L trains that run WITHIN chicago) sometimes a black ticketmaster wont stamp my ticket, then I can use it again. $8.25 saved.

 

[unkn0wn]

College admissions

 

[Nereyda Vuelve Por Dios]

More like Black Benefit of The Doubt. Ain't no privilege for minorities in this country worth a damn. Power is privilege.

 

[sunshineblotters]

College admissions

Not true. Go to a Californian college. They got rid of affirmitive action. The results are that there is a **** ton of asians and all of a sudden white people disappeared. Affirmative action was helping with people to the detriment of asians this whole time. White women were the group that benefited from affirmative action the most

 

[yogurt]

 

College admissions

Not true. Go to a Californian college. They got rid of affirmitive action. The results are that there is a **** ton of asians and all of a sudden white people disappeared. Affirmative action was helping with people to the detriment of asians this whole time. White women were the group that benefited from affirmative action the most

That was just the UC system, race-blind admissions universities are definitely in the minority. Otherwise basically all the schools here would be majority Asian based on scores.

 

[sunshineblotters]

That was just the UC system, race-blind admissions universities are definitely in the minority. Otherwise basically all the schools here would be majority Asian based on scores.

I agree with all that. Doesnt take away from my point. Affirmative action helps white people. When I found this out I tried looking around to see if it affected the rate of admissions for all other races (blacks and latinos especially). I couldnt find the data so if you have it please point me in the right direction as I am genuinely curious. If I had to guess it hurts other races but nowhere near as much as it hurts whites.

Just goes to show that programs implemented to help blacks or put us on equal footing to white people only end up helping them (as of recently. No arguing it was a big help to black people when it was first implemented)

 

[superblytrife]

The "brotha hookup" is real.  I can't tell you how many times I've been given free or extra stuff at food spots over the years. 

Most recently, I've been getting mad extra punches on my Dunkin' Donuts coffee card.  

If only I got the hookup on important ****.  

 

[yogurt]

Here are some numbers:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/06/24/us/affirmative-action-bans.html (note on this one doesn't even include the Asian statistics)

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-adv-asian-race-tutoring-20150222-story.html

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebat...statistics-indicate-an-ivy-league-asian-quota

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/11/affirmative-action

Here is the information LIONBLOOD was talking about, in regards to medical school admissions:

https://www.aei.org/publication/acc...-affirmative-discrimination-blacks-hispanics/

Being Asian is by far the worst demographic to be in America in terms of academia. They are not well portrayed here and are far less socially integrated than other races, so schools with a certain prestige or reputation to uphold that isn't solely derived from technical ability (such as MIT, CMU, Caltech) are able to use "holistic" selection processes to use subjective criteria to lower the amount of Asians admitted.

This is for undergraduate admissions. The numbers show a different story for graduate studies, where your "overall balance" isn't as important as your skill and passion in your field of study (and is subsequently easier to objectively quantify), which is why you see a significantly higher percentage of Asians at the graduate level, even at schools like the Ivy League where they are not as well-received in undergraduate admissions.

 

[sunshineblotters]

Another black "privilege" (as in just a perk) is that females of all races become MUCH easier to get as you get older if you are even just semi-successful. Black women are ballers (most educated group in america) and can't bare to "date down". Having a business, an average paying job, or a college degree gets them moist. Asians get mr tall dark and handsome for themselves and mr successful for their parents. White girls keep doing what they were doing before but now you have less competition it would seem.

I mean this is the case for all men but it seems the effects are compounded for black men.

 

[yogurt]

 
^^^Thanks. I don't really like to look at affirmative action as an advantage cause its supposed to counteract years of advantages white and Asian students have been afforded. In reality this isn't always the case. A lot of black students at elite undergrad and graduate schools came from pretty stable households financially. In an attempt to establish racial diversity, sometime economic diversity gets lost in the equation. It's not a perfect system, but it'll have to do for now.

I agree, I think any sort of modified admissions system should use economic classes as divisors instead of race. It is far more concrete to classify a person based on their wealth as compared to any potential race ambiguity, and wealth is the #1 factor in one's upbringing/environment, and subsequently a foundation for what they do later on.

 

[sunshineblotters]

It definitely makes more sense for diversity programs to be based on socioeconomic factors but then you'd be asking underfunded schools to increase the population of kids who cant afford it (and increase scholarships to match). Will never happen. like it or not school is a business. Thats why we spend a year and a half of your college careers in ******** classes like Geography and Greek Mythology. Also why student loan interest average around 6.8% with an average 30k loan balance.

Here are some numbers:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/06/24/us/affirmative-action-bans.html (note on this one doesn't even include the Asian statistics)
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-adv-asian-race-tutoring-20150222-story.html
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebat...statistics-indicate-an-ivy-league-asian-quota
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/11/affirmative-action

Here is the information LIONBLOOD was talking about, in regards to medical school admissions:

https://www.aei.org/publication/acc...-affirmative-discrimination-blacks-hispanics/


Being Asian is by far the worst demographic to be in America in terms of academia. They are not well portrayed here and are far less socially integrated than other races, so schools with a certain prestige or reputation to uphold that isn't solely derived from technical ability (such as MIT, CMU, Caltech) are able to use "holistic" selection processes to use subjective criteria to lower the amount of Asians admitted.

This is for undergraduate admissions. The numbers show a different story for graduate studies, where your "overall balance" isn't as important as your skill and passion in your field of study (and is subsequently easier to objectively quantify), which is why you see a significantly higher percentage of Asians at the graduate level, even at schools like the Ivy League where they are not as well-received in undergraduate admissions.

****. i missed this post entirely. But it answers my question. Some schools are relatively the same acceptance rates for blacks and hispanics and other schools schools have a significant decrease in acceptance rate. So black people are are better off with affirmative action but its extremely detrimental for Asians.

I used to see special news reports about people with perfect SAT scores being rejected from Ivy Leagues and never understood why. Knew asians did well but didnt know they were competing at such a level. THOUSANDS of other Asians with perfect SAT scores are rejected from Ivy League schools? To put that in perspective Columbia's class size is ~2300 and Harvad's is ~1700

I can easily see both sides of the argument on this. Wonder how long before it is eliminated completely.

 

[superantigen]

To paraphrase Chris Rock, I'll trade being able to say ***** for being able to set interest rates.






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[teamjordan79]

To paraphrase Chris Rock, I'll trade being able to say n**** for being able to set interest rates.






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this.

 

[OBAMA]

Black people in the south Dont look out for another brother like we do up north...