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it is the cool thing to bash bush j/k
His dad needs to come teach him how to play with his toy. but someone has to repair the toy first though. 'cause he totally broke it. That's the new joke.

i don't even lean anywhere politically. You're Republican right?

probably because people associate being african with being primitive and africans don't want that.
At least I wouldn't want that.
So, It probably depends on  your level of confidence.
some people are proud to be/look African.
If you've been hanging out with people who think Africa's filled with some primates and elephants  they might influence your thinking or hurt your self esteem. and you won't be proud to tell others you're african.

@Uche2nna, I've corrected people so many times on how to correctly pronounce my name it's not even funny. I've gone by a nickname since i was born but it doesn't hurt to be able to pronounce the full name does it? lol

maybe because i don't know what you mean by "my free"
j/k =joking


Grey's Anatomy

ZuluNation:
Mitt Romney would be running for the presidency in 08 and has a very chance of winning you just wait. The Reps would be back in the Whit house in 08 you just wait.

Wes you remind me of what Rush Limbaugh would call Cool aid drinkers, San Francisco tree hugger, Flower Child. Anyways I don't think it's your fault,you'll out grow your liberal ideas when you get a little older trust me.

whoever Mitt Romney is.

you're right. I love [b]k[/b]ool aid but i'm not a hippie though.
whose fault is it that i'm liberal. lol

Well, he will  be stepping down for Duval.
Mass. might have had rep. governors but that doesn't change the fact that the state's primarily Democrat.

I've been surviving.   where have you been?

true


tpbm can't wait till Dec.

hate it j/k


dance dance revolution (ddr)

what's so bad about her?
you would hate bush and the Rep. party with a passion too if you lived in let's say Massachusetts (they're so liberal they got their first black governor).
so maybe texans will be begging for conservative rule.

love it


soccer

Babyosisi, I wonder how many black republicans there are in the U.S. lol
you're the first one i know (well, i don't know you like that) so far. that's cool

neutral


food

hate it


music

lmao @ ekelebe.
I thought it was a dirty word at first.
alright. I quit my police job. Ugwumba and Radiant are free to go. Don, your happy now?

don jazzie:
na today.nor b mi dey police una now

so you're trying to pick on me huh?
i'm the police? what's wrong w/ watching over the nl couple.

lol. hopefully nico doesn't get too mad at me.

i see you're mirroring each other's post. Radiant & Ugwumba

Ugwumba:
thanks mum, need to ask for dad's permission now,

threaten to run away if he doesn't give you, so you could get a free laptop. 

Radiant:
lol   Love why woulda seek love when we have virgins in the house   Wesley no cause for alarm ok. He can all be yours with my permission  

hey. I was just about to be asking don jazzie to my side if you attacked
don't get ugwumba mad at you now.

i smell love in the air

haha

it's also funny how no one knows where dacutie808 is.

i second ugwumba's post so read it and maybe ask your dad to translate the broken english  ------>

Ugwumba:
-if na for home country, na koboko dey for take reshape im spanish-naija yansh.

nico:
thanks y'all. I needed the support.
I honestly thought "Ashawoo" means "go away",
I said that 'cause she was pushing and punching me for no good reason
cause whenever that word is used it goes like this "Ashwoo go away"
So I thought maybe that they're translating "ashwoo" as "Go Away"
My Mum has stop my step-aunt from coming to our house because I've threaten to run away
she has increased my allowance
My step-dad said he is sorry for telling me off and he bought me a new Laptop which I don't need
He is teaching me yoruba and broken english
like "ki lo de", i think that means wot's your name

trust fund babies nowadays.
You got a new laptop + raise in allowance for calling your step mom "ashewo" and threatening to run away
Most nigerian kids will be dead if they did any of those things so count yourself lucky.
a slap mean nothing so stop whining. Yes i'm hating. j/k

seriously though, count yourself lucky.

SEFAGO:
I never said the people in my school are racist. I just said they have ingrained in their minds several stereotypes about black people. In fact all my friends are white and they are very friendly. And I made no comment that you were in opposition to AA. Concerning your Harvard and Princeton remark, I remember when I got into an ivy league school, someone I knew looked at my admission letter turned towards me and said "you probably got in through quota" . That is the idea I am trying to convey-quotas make good students look stupid. period. I just saw your post wesleyan A. I also liked Liberal arts colleges but my father did not let me attend the ones I got into because of the lack of name. Williams College was my first choice school.

Most whites i know and I'm friends with are nice and friendly too. It's just that, like you said, they have the black stereotypes ingrained in their minds.

I googled the quota system and found this:

June 28, 1978

Minority College Admissions Quotas Ruled Illegal

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial quotas for college admissions was illegal in the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case on this date. Allan P. Bakke, a white applicant, was not admitted into the Univ. of California-Davis's Medical school. The university had a quota on the number of minority students it would accept. The Supreme Court ruled that Bakke was not accepted because of the quota and ruled quotas illegal. Despite this, affirmative action was still considered constitutional. http://www.thehistorymakers.com/timeline/index.asp?string=1978

so apparently, colleges used to practice the use of quotas until it became illegal and i think that was why UMD was sued not long ago.
Affirmative Action is constitutional though and i understand why it is. Quotas just don't make much sense. i.e i don't understand it.

About the Liberal arts schools, a lot of people are obsessed over name colleges nowadays (even my teachers) and i understand  'cause i used to be. Just because the average american on your street has never heard of Amherst or Williams doesn't mean they're crap.lol.  They're actually better than some of the "name brand" schools, IMO. I like how they focus on undergrad study. One can always go to a name school for graduate study (at least that's what make them prestigious in the first place).

SEFAGO:
Yes, schools use them for diverse reasons and not only for someones race. Your high school can also be used as a factor when gaining admission into college( students from very competitive prep schools and public high schools compete for a limited number of spaces) My roommate at my university attended a highly prestigious public school(the best in america) and he got a perfect score in the SAT's but he wasn't special in his school because everyone there got very high SAT scores. So, he got rejected at Yale and Harvard.In fact in my chemistry class I was talking to a student from duke university who came to my school to take classes. He told me that duke would probably start using quotas for my roommates high school because 25 students from my roommates high school got into Duke's freshman class. Anyway I got very high sat scores but most people think I got in because of the color of my skin. However, I don't think AA should be stopped

I'm 99.9% sure quotas are illegal. It's true that being a URM or coming from a state like Alabama or Missisippi (depending on whatever region it is your applying to) might give you an edge or make you look better but if quotas were set, the percentages wouldn't flunctuate every year (do the same number of students from that high school get into that Uni. every year?) even worse, people would sue. and, nowadays guys are minorities in colleges and universities so if there were quotas the gender ratio will be 50/50 rather than the ~ 60/40 it is at now.

Many colleges check to see your High School profile (i think that's why they have the CEEB codes) they know if the school is competitive/rigorous or not. They even check to see the classes offered so they know if you took challenging ones or not. So if your SATs are high and your GPA or class rank is lower, they'll understand. So i'll assume your roommate got rejected for some other reason. maybe he didn't challenge himself enough w/ the classes he took. He had the opportunity of attending a prep school and they probably expected him to take those. SATs are only a small part of the addmision process (State, huge schools are exceptions) your school transcript mean the most.
Many students from my school get into Brown and some don't even end up going there so i don't think there are any quotas.

I used to want to go to Duke but i kind of prefer a small liberal arts school now so yeah. I don't care about name,
us news rankings and all that as long as i learn as much as i can and my future employers/ med school know about it, i'm fine.
there are so many good colleges so few people know about and i don't see why +25 people from the same school will want to attend one single college. of course Duke can't accept them all. lol


And about people thinking all black people got in because of Affirmative Action, you already said it yourself that most whites feel a sense of superiority so they probably assume all blacks are dumb anyway and even if Affirmative action is eliminated, they will still look for an excuse out of their close-mindedness.

Numb/Encore -- JayZ & Linkin Park

sbucareer:

Ok let me put it this way. You have a girlfriend/boyfriend and they cheated on you and you find out and end the relationship.

After a while you find yourself a new girlfriend/boyfriend the same thing happened again, they cheat on you again, what a Deja Vu

Got it

craziest example ever. got it!
nice font too.

Hey Sefago!
I'm not at Wesleyan. It used to be my first choice school in 10th grade (when i joined Nairaland) and 11th, since it's so close to my state. lol gosh i'm so old on this site.

I know AA will make students who got in on merit look bad, in fact that was what happened to this Chicano author Richard Rodriguez, but I think there are pros and cons on either side.
AA makes sense to me but the only thing i hate about it is the fact that it benefits the upper class blacks rather than the lower and middle class blacks who need it the most.

If there were some other solution for the underrepresentation of minorities at prestigious colleges, I won't mind them doing away with AA. They probably should throw out the SAT 'cause i hate ETS w/ a passion (maybe only the rich doesn't). I'm not trying to sound communist or socialist here (not that there's anything wrong with either ideology) but come on.

I personally wouldn't feel bad or care much if someone comes up to me and try to tell me i got into so and so college because of AA. Well I might feel a little bad about it since i'm African rather than African American. and that's my point exactly! most of the time the people who need this thing the most don't get it!

oh well. If you can come up with a way to get representation for African Americans in schools like yours . . . but till then, i think Affirmative Action should stay. Even though it's not perfect, it's something.

for some reason, some people never cease to blame their rejections on Blacks, but they know legacies and athletes get preferential treatment also but most of the time, they choose to overlook that.

oh yeah. Quotas are illegal. Do schools really use them? (for students other than internationals).

awww. 
I don't come on here as often either 'cause i have sooooo muuuuchhh going on. so overwhelming.
okay, it's just that school started and i have less free time. lol

seriously though . . you KNOW what we're talking about.

anyways I guess we all now know the definition for deja vu.
for example, I would be experiencing deja vu if this argument replayed itself in my math class, and i might say i "deep learned." 'cause surface learning is for goldfishes.