I used my White Guy Card to be much less likely to be born into poverty, to have a much greater potential to make 100% of my possible income for a job, to never be stopped in a stop-and-frisk, to be much less likely to be put on a watch list or no-fly list, and to be treated as friendly and non-threatening by default. There's other small advantages that involve personal dignity, but those are too numerous to mention. It's a nice fucking card, jus' sayin'. Like playing the game on Easy rather than Hard. But if you don't know what difficulty levels there are, I can understand how you can think your level is Hard even if it's Medium.
My daughter was told she was not accepted into a school because they needed to add more diversity, even though her scores were higher. Jus' sayin'
Yep, my daughter applied to Stanford. She was Valedictorian with a 4.0 average and rejected for the reason, "they wanted more diversity". She was pretty angry about it at the time, we had never heard of such a thing then. She went on to UC and all was well. I was actually even happier than she was after the dust settled, too damn much money to go to Stanford.
Yeah but that card has been pretty well handicapped by some policies. I did Corporate recruiting at several campuses for about 3 years in the early 80s. I did it because I had need for nearly 100 Computer Science people on projects I had during that time. U of W, Oregon ST, Stanford, Cal Tech, U of Illinois were the schools on my list. Oregon and UC Berkley were also but those schools would not lets us have a recruiting day. The rules I had to operated with from Corporate was their view of affirmative action. I could make the job offer to White kids with a 3.8 or better grade point average, and the Black kid had to have a 3.2 or better. The end result of this effort running for three years was to hire no one. I only found one white student with a 3.8 average, at Stanford, he came to the interview more or less on a lark, he had no interest in doing development work. I did find Three black kids with the grades but they scoffed at the idea of working for the 35k a year starting salary of the 80s. There were hundreds of White kids with 3.0 through 3.5 grade point averages that would have been a fine for the jobs I had, but I could not hire them. In the end I had to cancel two of three project because of inability to staff them. This sort of shit should never happen
This is why the internet is so great.... I would have no idea Dviss was black if he didn't talk about being black. I just hate all you people equally! Isn't it great?
Looks that way. She was accepted at West Point but she rejected that one??? Cost there were real reasonable.
You mean the ones that mow my lawn, dry clean my clothes and clean my pool. They all seem happy enough to me Come to think of it, is it racist of me to have bought tequila, sake and hennessy for their Christmas gifts?
You should be ashamed of this post... But you aren't so I think that says more about you than it does for the non whites who work for you...
I have a very ethnic last name. Before and after 9/11, I was traveling a lot via commercial flights. I would get pulled out for extra screening, even at the gate, more often than not. Didn't really bother me, and my wife and I still laugh about it now. Since the profiling thing went away, I have yet to be pulled aside and screen. I haven't changed my last name, and my eastern European dark swarthy look hasn't changed.
