You also continue to miss the "fine" print of the situation.
Look at the "blueprint" of why such an award is given to African-Americans and not the other way around. (You can run so many times AROUND what is there and try not to see it AND DEFEND them, but wrong is wrong, no matter how many times you want to turn it around..)
1) It is given during Black History Month... (An American holiday.)
2) It is suppose to reflect the struggles of the AMERICAN NEGRO against segregation and the AMERICAN BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
3) It also is supposed to be in memory of Martin Luther King, who fought for civil rights and equality for the African-Americans.
4) You shouldn't be making fun about a ceremony at "Such a prestigious school" in a state that JUST started to recognize MLK's birthday as a federal holiday. (What's up Arizona?)
You have a straight up case of insensitivity going on over there..
They should get rid of the award if they want to give another "crutch" to the African-Americans in that school...
And like I said, if they really wanted to make a point, why didn't they appoint themselves as possible candidates for the award? (Not go out and get a white African?)
*History lesson #2*
1) There is a big difference between an African who comes to the States to go to school in basically an all caucasian school and an African-American, who you think you fooling?
2) You try to defend the schools I mentioned by saying there is NOW a racial quota to fill so, I will most likely be accepted before him. (Well, isn't that a redundant little sentence?) *Question?* Why is there a racial quota and why was it made?
3)The "cop" situations I referred to, you didn't answer with a realistic answer. You try to justify it, but we ALL know the truth. Social society dictates it.
Don't try to pass it off as a cop with his head up his ass... (You obviously haven't watched many episodes of "COPS", huh...
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4) Just last week, I went to a job interview. At this interview was another caucasian man, we both had applied THROUGH HUMAN RESOURCES online and both gotten called in. I put on my resume all my Finnish references, (I live in Finland..) and the guy lived in Yonkers. (He spoke more ghetto than I did.) After the testing, the manager walked up to me and said, "We currently don't have anything that is in your field at the moment. Your application will be on record for 6 months, if something comes up during that time, we wil get in contact with you. If nothing comes up after 6 months, come in and reply again, thank you..
As I said thank you and started putting my coat on, he turned to the other guy and said, "Well, Mr. ****, we have something that most likely be available for you because you have been consulting Nokia for how long? We have a client that would like some one who know wireless networking. How long have you lived in Finland?" I waited until he got hooked and then said, "Excuse me? I'm Mr. ****..."
Most of this I write in my replies are from what has been done to me, so I speak from experience too...
Instead of trying to get "away" from the mistakes of your forefather's past, maybe try to start CORRECTING THEM
FIRST.
BLACK AMERICANS or African- Americans have been through too much to have some people ridicule the honor of MLK and the struggles all their parents and foreparents. And those students should have sensitivity management done.
Them doing that was out of line. If they really wanted to make a statement, why not do it through the proper channels?
Yes, it is a sensitive matter and should not be made to ridicule.
Here's a point that will sting, but I'll say it to drive my point home about sensitivity:
Them doing it in that way is the same as someone:
Making an advertisement in Jewish newspaper "Stoves from Auschwitz are on sale" on the day of Holocast rememberance..
Someone on Ebay selling pieces of WTC "half price" on Sept. 11.
Having a KKK Rally Day in Harlem and they claim they can do it because of First Amendment guarantees it...
Going out your way to find some one who is white and from Africa to nominate him for an African-American award during Black History Month...
Yup! It ranks up there in the "insensitive" column....
(Now please don't take any of those examples OUT OF CONTEXT.