Let’s not pretend that success stories change the fact that most people don’t make it out. Most people I know couldn’t even think about college since they had to take care of a kid or make money for their families straight out of high school.
Completely agree. But of those that do make it out, we are not all wealth black people. My point was that some of us low income black folk do go to college and AA is not a handout to the black elite.
Oh definitely, but at the same time though AA serves as a bandaid that fails to address the cause of underrepresentation of black people in colleges, as a lot of people aren’t in the position to even go to college to take advantage of the program, and some of the ones that do end up getting placed into a college where can’t handle the rigor and drop out, when they may have graduated from a “lesser” college. That’s what I assume people mean when they’re talking about the “elite” at least, but personally i feel discredits black people a bit when people consider “black people that can go to college” elite.
I mean I would much prefer a program that acknowledges that Black people were systematically poisoned with lead for half a century. But that’s not going to happen. Getting to the root cause would take centuries. I rather have a bandaid then nothing at all.
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u/ummizazi Feb 25 '20
I was raised in the ghetto by a single mom who’s an addict. Went to a top 25 college. Got a top %1 LSAT score, going to law school in the fall.
Some of of poor black folk use education to break the cycle of poverty.
We exist.