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Isnt the civil rights movement counter to everything MLK Jr. stood for?
It seems to me that everything that's happened after desegregation is racism in the opposite direction (blacks hispanics etc. need to have x,y,z thing to be better than x,y,z whites). I thought MLK Jr. wanted people to all be equal and no one's skin color should enter into the equation. and yet it is still a big part of the equation apparently.Why is this? I'm white, but i've never worried about the color of my skin until i applied for college. when i did a scholarship search, it asked me to indicate an ethnicity, and my searches dropped from around 2000 to 100 and some change (it dropped to below 50 when i indicated my sex too). It seems to me that for all the "progress" we've made in the 100 some years since the civil war (or as my father calls it "the war of northern agression" because there's no place in the constitution that says states can't seceed), we've only changed the flow of racism (white>colored to colored<white). Please correct me if i'm wrong.
So isnt this all counter to what MLK Jr. stood for?
i'm not crying about being white. I'm asking isn't what MLK wanted was to have everyone viewed as a human being, not as white or black or Hispanic or asian or as a purple people eater or any other sort of ethnicity/color/ race there is? All life is sacred, you arent omitted by the color of your skin. we all bleed red.
and i think it's offensive to assert I am. Not once did i say i was against those scholarships being offered, nor did i say those students dont deserve to go to college.
the mention of scholarships is one example, but another is Afirmative action. While it had it's place during the time period in which it was in acted, is it still relavent today? if i sent two applications to a school, the only difference being i checked Caucasian and the other African-American (say the school was a high demand school like Harvard or another, so there is an extremely limited supply of seats) who would have a better chance of making it. I say we should have an equal chance, but i bet afirmative action would give the other a leg up. It should really come down to either a chance that the person with the rub stamp flips a coin or something.
My college is actually 27% white
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Lets be honest here. If a college was given a choice , they would not accept any people of color. I am sure that any college you applied to has a ratio of about 75% white to 25% or even less of people of color. So this works both ways.
- blueevent47Lv 51 decade ago
Well, I think you've made a couple of different mistakes here.
First of all, the civil rights movement was to a large degree spearheaded by Martin Luther King, Jr., at least in the 60's. He was present for the 1965 Voting Rights Act when it was signed into law. It provided for equal treatment under the law, irrespective of race. Forgive me for saying so, but that is the purpose of civil rights today.
Second, the offering of scholarships has nothing to do with the civil rights movement, except incidentally. There were scholarships aimed at minorities prior to the civil rights movement of the late 50's and 60's, and there are believe it or not scholarships reserved for "white" people today (they are admittedly few).
The availability and predominance of scholarships "reserved" for women and minorities is related to those who create them. They have nothing to do with civil rights, and nothing prevents organizations or individuals setting up scholarships reserved for white males, if they so desire. It sounds as if you are upset because you are not getting equally representative special treatment. If you don't like that, go out and start a scholarship of your own.
Finally, your father's opinion about seceding has been settled. That's rather WHY the Civil War has been fought. It's a shame that so many on the fringe right can't seem to realize that.
Cheers.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: Affirmative action does give applicants one component of special consideration. But so does being the son or daughter of being an alumnist (ask Mr. Bush and the Yale admissions board). So does being able to shoot a 3-pointer from mid court. So do certain extracurricular activities, such as doing volunteer and charity work. So does residency in a state university.
You are under the mistaken impression that affirmative action is the only thing keeping white applicants from getting into college (or a job).
Cheers.
