oh geez rex. i'm second generation asian here in the US. my mom lived for twenty years or more in a japanese refugee camp building converted into an apartment in taipei. her living quarters for her entire family of 7 people were no bigger than your dorm, and 90 people shared 1 toilet and 1 tub that didn't even have running water! and yet, she managed to come to america and make a decent living. my father came from minnesota and grew up in inner city Minneapolis which makes south central LA look like a playground. look up some stories about North High in old headlines and you get the idea. shootings were a regular thing, and many of his classmates are dead because of the conditions they were in. now if i can make it to UCLA and i'm the second generation from the sh!thole my parents grew up in, why can't anybody else? what about the vietnamese people that came here during the vietnam war? a lot of them i knew when i lived in little saigon are going to some colleges like berkeley! it is so absurd that someone is disadvantaged more than another because of race to the extent to justify giving them special priveleges over people who are not minorities. you're basically saying "screw you" to white people and even subjecting them to make "reparations" for something they didn't even commit, ala slavery! puuleease! why should i have to suffer because i have a white last name, as that is what will be seen when i apply to a college? did i commit the atrocities that happened 200 years ago? 50 years ago? no, but according to you, i should make reparations because of what happened before i was even born, or any other white person for that matter. how unbelievably ludicrous. and then there are white immigrants here that come from other countries and are the first of their families to ever come to america. oh well, i guess they're screwed because they're race committed atrocities before they even came here, according to you. FACT, LA Unified gets much more funding than a lot of suburbs do, as do a lot of inner city schools. FACT, white people consist of the MINORITY in engineering at UCLA, while asians and indians make up most of the people there, many of which are second generation or immigrants, making english their SECOND language. and you know well enough that the school of engineering is the hardest to get into. wow, considering all these minorities can make themselves the majority in the most intense academic programs at UCLA, do you really need affirmative action? obviously no. why don't we have more chinese basketball players? they are under-represented. hmm, maybe because some of them are too short to compete realistically with the taller white and black players we have here. if they're too short, they're too short. they don't deserve special treatment just because they're "underrepresented." if you recall during our orientation first year, our president made a speech saying that if it wasn't for AA, he would not have gotten in. he then publicly admitted that he got a 900 on his SAT score. now, i wonder what person got screwed that did qualify to get in as much as he did in order for him to come here. don't you?
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