Originally posted by brtecson
i thought you were going to say that YOU grew up in those areas....
there is crime in other places besides s. central LA. i used to live in one of the roughest areas in milwaukee too. I was jumped by three guys about a half mile from my house, they took my free cell phone, bus pass, and all of the seven dollars i had:roll eyes:. A man was shot to death on the very bus stop that i waited on everyday to go to work. my point is that there are areas like south central in every metropolitan city, just not as large scale.
I don't grow up there...but AROUND THERE.
Lucky for me, I didn't go to my public high school or else I would have witnessed similar situations.
I agree that of course there are areas similar to south central but I used that example b/c i live around there and I am more similar with situations there.
However, you can't deny that in general, the ghetto areas are populated with the majority of people being African Americans and Latinos...
b_dyche - I agree that sometimes, political programs are not implemented the way it is supposed to be...but overall, it is a good program. I am taking this class called "the rights and wrong of aff. action" and I have looked at both sides of the story. I used to be against aff. action, but now based on what I learned and debated in class, I think that aff. action is overall a good program.
And in terms of aff. action making it unethical and blah blah....my response to that is that the qualifications for most of the scholardships that are not race oriented are based on grades, achievement, community service and etc, something that the racial minority groups sometimes don't qualified for.
I'm so sorry I went off-topic...if anybody want to debate about this with me, feel free to IM me..but I think we should stick to the tax topic =P