I feel bad for this guy. . what a tough time he must face
when it comes time to find his ass with both hands. -- j

p.s. my wife, who grew up in Buffalo, NY, praises her
upbringing there and damns it down here (her family moved
to tennessee when she was 9) because the races and
ethnicities were harmoniously mixed up there, and
she was responsible for the civil war, down here. -- j
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What goes around comes around, and karma will bite 'em in the butt every time...

Like the guy who's getting fired and takes his case to the HR manager...
"You're firing me because I'm a minority!"
Response from HR:
"No, we HIRED you because you are a minority; we're firing you because you're a F-ing INCOMPETENT."

:)

Plusaf, once someone graduates from dental school, their class standing is irrelevant unless they want to apply for specialty training. The old joke is, What do you call the guy at the bottom of the class? Doctor!
In any case, the ones to suffer are the patients who go to the inferior dentist and get poor treatment. I venture to say that the excellent black dentist suffers also, as people can wonder: did he deserve this degree, or is it an affirmative action degree?
Inexcusable.

Hmmm..... let's see, who is leading the Executive branch of the most powerful nation on Earth.:
President - Barack Obama
National Security Advisor - Susan Rice
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations - Susan Rice
Former Attorney General - Eric Holder
Current Attorney General - Loretta Lynch
Secretary of Homeland Security - Jeh Johnson

Someone clearly needs to get their head screwed on straight.

No, his 'glasses' will never come off. Born that way or umbilically attached by his parents or teachers. Immutable.

Spot on!

I agree, but is there some end game where the guy or gal with the artificially inflated entrance GPA finally graduates and for some startling reason, can only land a job at lower pay than the Uninflated GPA student?... and then starts a class-action suit to get the higher pay?

Morons and unintended consequences all around. Sad.

I commented on that site about the irony of the author's generalizations in the way he criticized generalizations.

Sounded, in the end, like a liberal's lament of 'beat me up because I haven't cured poverty and world hunger all by myself.'

The problems are extremely complex, yet everyone wants and looks for 'simple, immediate curative solutions.'

And get pissed when their attempts fail, repeatedly, to make a positive difference.

Reminds me of Jew-stereotyping and -bashing. Yep, lots of Jews ARE successful and wealthy. The Jewish culture and history also is one of many generations of valuing and pursuing knowledge and education. Go figure. Now people beat up on Asians for outperforming whites AND blacks in business, in college and by many other measures. Go figure.

I found the article repetitious and it didn't seem to move towards any suggestions of positive actions that could reverse the trends of what he was complaining about.

Sad.

The author is too lazy to follow the adage, "when you have a lemon, make lemonade."

No such thing as race. It's a progressive invention. But what really sticks out here is the Brain only entities spouting this nonsense. Those of us that are beings that have a brain, a conscious and a mind must realize that these creatures have chosen not to be human, not to engage their conscience or their mind, they need the comfort of a collective an must lash out at those that remind them of how stupid bicameral they are. MANkind consists of one race, 1 of 4 blood types, two arms, two hands, two feet, two eyes and two ears; one nose and one mouth...and the last one should be duck taped shut on those that use it saying stupid things.

Why are you wasting my time with this drivel?!?

It is sad what is happening in our country because of skin color. It's ridiculas this should be erupting now with a President of color in the WH. I have had only good experiences with people of color. Both men were from the Caribean Islands. One was a giant of a man standing 6'5" he look like he lifted weights. But had a warm and infectiuos personality an excellent mechanic, the other was a skinny machinist from Jamaca in his twenties. He was just a fun guy, he could turn metal on a lathe faster than anyone I knew. Maybe, these men were from the islands they saw themslves differently. I sure did, they were wonderful coworkers and I loved working with them I looked forward going to work because I knew they would be there.

Two points:

1) I found it interesting that Mr. Metta claims that individual white people tend to think in terms of being an individual while individual black people tend to think in terms of being in a group. If true, perhaps he should examine those claims and possibly find a solution therein.

2) Mr. Metta claims that when white people move to the suburbs (to areas more "white") that their motivation is inherently racist. I would submit that perhaps some of these people are not motivated by internal feelings of racism, but instead by the exhaustion of recognizing the futility of living in a society where their only default status is one of a racist (outright or crypto) no matter what they might say, think, or do.

The Author seems not to understand the story of the Good Samaritan at all. In historical context the Samaritan was the oppressed minority, and the injured man was of a different class. In the story, it is this 'dirty', hated, lower class man who is the only one to stop and help the injured man, when many of the injured man's own class were going right by.

Thank you, everyone. I posted this because I thought you should read what some misguided people are saying about racism. I predicted your response to this article would be negative, but am overwhelmed by your unanimity.

Well said. This is exactly my mental response when reading about anyone who wants "reparations" for something that happened before they were even born.

I strongly agree, because in my experience, pretty much all so-called racism or sexism cases are brought by people who earned the bad treatment they got by bad behavior. The law should not be protecting them from the consequences of their actions.

I have to disagree, and I can quote one example of which I have concrete knowledge. At the public dental school in Georgia, if you are a black person applying for admittance to the school, a full 1.0 is added to your GPA. Therefore, a white person with a GPA of 3.8 is considered equal to a black person with a GPA of 2.8. Now I could argue that the black person is not being done a favor, as experience in the school shows that those with the low GPAs do very poorly.
By the way, a white person with a GPA below 3.0 is not even considered for admission, whereas black people with as low as a 2.0 have been admitted.
The thing that pisses me off is that the more qualified applicants are denied in favor of the less qualified. Progressive heaven!

What does a Catholic Priest have in common with Jewish and Italian mothers? Answer: They all spread guilt, especially to those closest to them. That is what being born a racist because you're white is all about. Write it off as silly if you want, but Hitler used an even sillier proposition as an excuse to kill more than 6 million people.

I think you have clearly defined the problem and its best solution, nsnelson.

Jan

Even most of them don't benefit. Just a few, well paid professional fight-provokers like Al Sharpton do.

This is "social justice" AKA "identity politics" taken to its absurd conclusion.

In theory, those people want MLK's dream: an "identity free future" in which each person will be judged only by his own actions and the character (or lack of) that they show.

In reality, the SJWs' [1] whole concept of validation is built on the supposed fact that they're victims -- just because they're black, or female, or what have you -- and the "identity free future" is a promise pushed off into a future never-to-be-reached, just like the USSR's notion of "true communism." The actual state they'll build if they win is similarly parallel -- a "dictatorship of the protected classes." We're not all the way there yet (though employment law already is), but one or two more terms of Democratic administrations and we will be.
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[1] "SJW" stands for Social Justice Warrior, and it's what they're being called by the growing number of people who are fed up with them.

Its people like the author of this article who continue to add to the perceived "racism" in this country. By promoting his viewpoint, he adds to whatever problems the black minority(13%) of this nation experience. He is preaching division by pointing out the differences between the races. Definitely not helpful to anyone.
Its all "whiteys" fault solves no problems and adds to no discussions.
What would be helpful to his community would be sermons on self-fulfillment and achievement irregardless of the perceived obstacles to personal success. Get off the plantation and bust your butt to get where ya want to be in life.
So tired of hearing about all this crap from the left.