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Colleges Give Preference to Homosexual Students |
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by Harold Green
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22 May 2002
Modified: 24 May 2002 |
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Meritocracy, our lonely eyes turn to you... |
Colleges Give Preference to Homosexual Students
Melanie Hunter, CNSNews.com
Wednesday, May 22, 2002
A growing number of U.S. colleges are actively recruiting homosexual students as part of their efforts to build "diverse freshman classes," the Boston Globe reported Tuesday.
According to the newspaper, college admissions officers believe students who go through admitting their homosexuality in high school develop self-confidence, leadership abilities, cultural awareness and other characteristics that colleges want.
The Globe quoted Judith Brown, director of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at Tufts University near Boston: "Schools are inviting these students because they question the norms ... They make people question their own assumptions, and that's a key to learning and growing as people."
The article mentions that Harvard, Yale, Brown and about 40 other colleges sent representatives to Boston on Saturday for the nation's first college fair for homosexual high school students. |
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Neither Preference or Meritocracy |
by ML
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22 May 2002
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Harold,
You and CNS (you'd think either Christian or Conservative were part of the acronym, but it actually stands for Cybercast News Service, although both Christian and Conservative are definitely still part of the mix) are both full of it. There is neither a preference being made nor a meritocracy being established.
Colleges have simply identified this group as likley having had significant character-building experiences early in their lives that will likely make them good students. And then colleges are wanting to recruit such good students. That's not a preference.
As for meritocracy, the US college system has always been that way, in case you haven't noticed, but it usually takes the form of having enough cash to merit a college education. Was that the particular charateristic that you wanted to highlight and look up to? It certainly serves to exclude a large number of qualified candidates every year. Does that pain you dearly also? |
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ML WINS 'REDUCTIVE LEFTIST OF THE YEAR' AWARD! |
by Harold Green
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23 May 2002
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ML writes:
"Colleges have simply identified this group as likley having had significant character-building experiences early in their lives that will likely make them good students."
Why would homosexuals have more "significant character-building experiences" than heterosexuals, especially for admission into college? Would you say that a certain sexual orientation is automatically a "significant character-building experience" as compared to another?
A side note: please be less reductive in your answer. Say something more than, "Harold, homosexuals fight adversity every day, and this alone makes them worthier candidates than heterosexuals."
ML writes:
"in case you haven't noticed...it usually takes the form of having enough cash to merit a college education."
No, I haven't noticed that before. You see, most people living in the REAL world would agree that college is attainable by those willing to work for it, not to mention the help of "victim" policies such as affirmative action. Your statement would have been correct had you said that wealthy parents produce well-bred children, thus allowing them a successful education and future. I guess your groupthink literature forgot to mention that statistic. |
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Well-bred? |
by Roxy
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24 May 2002
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Groupthink literature?
"I Have A Dream"
by Martin Luther King, Jr,
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Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. Source: Martin Luther King, Jr: The Peaceful Warrior, Pocket Books, NY 1968
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights.
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. we must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" we can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
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Got me! |
by Harold Green
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24 May 2002
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Roxy, name ONE person in the United States that does not have equal protection under the law. |
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No, Harold, You're Still Wrong |
by ML
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24 May 2002
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"Your statement would have been correct had you said that wealthy parents produce well-bred children, thus allowing them a successful education and future. I guess your groupthink literature forgot to mention that statistic."
Breeding, huh?
I guess you a big believer in eugenics also then. If there is anything that refutes your lame argument, it is the current resident of the Whitehouse. W. couldn't keep a job flipping burgers if it wasn't for daddy's connections.
But you are probably one of those who think he's a smart guy.
Only in comparison to your own intellect, perhaps... |
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PS |
by ML
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24 May 2002
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I'll won't bother with the whole US when an example from right here in Illinois will do. Gay, lesbian and transgendered people have no protection agaisnt discrimination under Illinois law.
Yet our elected officials thought it was more important to pass a law against discriminating against motorcycle riders recently.
Here's more, if your mind is open enough to comprehend it:
http://www.ucimc.org/front.php3?article_id=5284
But this is just ONE example of many where certain groups lack legal protection. It dosen't even include all the numerous laws that take rights away from certain groups because they don't conform to the standards of Neanderthals like you. |
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Thanks again, ML... |
by Roxy
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24 May 2002
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...and, Harold, Dr. King's speech isn't entirely about laws. It's also about The Big Picture. I promise it wasn't a gotcha or anything personal... much bigger than that, really. |
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