Comments on: Should colleges use positive discrimination to increase diversity during their admissions process?

By: Pusty

Pusty — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:26:37 +0000

If you are a native in Canada
a) You will have to pay very little taxes
b) You will recieve montly handouts from the government monthly, (enough to live off of, which is what many natives do)
c) You will have your entire secondary education paid for in full, (Forunately not many do this because of d))
d) You will likely be handed jobs, by employers who have to fill a quota (this happended to my uncle)
e)Your reserve will recieve a fortune in tax payers money to fund their reserve
f) You may live in a reserve that is self governed.
e) For every child that you have, you will recieve a substantial bonus.

Once again, I am not racist, (I know many natives who are great people) I am merely stateing the facts, what you decide to take from these facts is up to you.

By: LordTiberivs

LordTiberivs — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:35:07 +0000

I wasn't aware that there was an issue of native americans in Canada. I must admit that Canada is a blind spot in my political and historical knowledge. I really think to move towards being a more equitable society job/school applications should have the race/ethnicity queries removed from them again. I assume Canada uses this procedure for interview screening also?

By: Pusty

Pusty — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:11:13 +0000

Now I’m not racist (I cannot stress that enough) But what you speak of (LordTiberivs) is almost exactly what is happening in my homeland, and it’s truly a shame. Native Americans that barely graduated are handed jobs to fill a quota. While the hard working majority who spend time and money to go to university to learn how to properly perform the job. It’s this spoon feeding that leads many of these people to tend to be lazy, and not perform well doing their job. But don’t try firing them because they’ll sue for racism.

This is one instance where I greatly envy Americans, who had the guts to allow Native Americans to stand on their own feet, and not spoil them like an only child.

By: LordTiberivs

LordTiberivs — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:11:18 +0000

Holy Crap! For once I agree with Jared! There should be no discrimination for school/job/any type of application. There should be no affirmative action, there should be no query of your ethnic background in any application whatsoever. People should be accepted into organizations/jobs based completely on their merit, not in an effort to fill a quota because we need more minorities in our school. Everyone should have an equal chance to succeed regardless of race.

By: Pusty

Pusty — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:02:29 +0000

And you’d better not call me racist, every time a white man disagrees with a minority he’s presumed racist.

By: Pusty

Pusty — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:56:52 +0000

Please, stop living in the past, the playfield has swung too greatly towards those that are not white, and not male. Equality means equal rights which has been more than implemented, just focus on working hard, and stop making excuses if you fail, just get back up and try harder.

By: older and wiser

older and wiser — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:01:38 +0000

To all posts. The truth of the matter is that the low income minority will be stuck there if colleges don't help to change this situation. Low income equals sub-par schools. That is a fact. I know plenty of hard working minorities making half the amount of their counterparts. As a woman who went to college (both my parents first language was not english), worked with WHITE men who knew less than me but held higher positions. The industry was white male dominated and enforced their power to elevate their kind. Wake up and realize that we live in a world where the color of your skin, unfortunately affects your situation. And the amount of money your parents make affect the education you get. The country needs to make education equal across the board than maybe the SAT scores will level out.

By: Pusty

Pusty — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:09:49 +0000

I don’t like it when people play the race card, i find that its swung too far now and minorities are taking advantages of it.

In the work force my uncle was denied a job he went to college for, for three years because a minority who had no training at all got the job.

Not to mention in Canada the natives that stay at home for life, living off the huge government handouts that they get from the guilt of the government.

The point is that the race card is just bad as discrimination.

I don’t apologize if i have somehow offended anyone.

By: suzaku

suzaku — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:30:16 +0000

It depends. Equal rights to admission? I believe in that. Equal rights to a teacher geared for your learning style? I also believe in that. NOT SO MUCH DIVERSITY OF LEARNING STYLE IN A GIVEN CLASSROOM. Otherwise, you are making some students suffer because they are not learning in the way best suited to them. DIVERSITY OF LEARNING STYLE OUTSIDE OF THE CLASSROOM? YES, by Heaven.

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:41:56 +0000

Yea, I understand what you are saying. That's the way we live though. It's unfair, I know that. That's why the government should step in and stop all these racism tactics to get people in through the system.

Everyone should be treated equally.