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From: karen@randvax.UUCP (Karen Isaacson)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.social,net.women,net.flame
Subject: Re: Discrimination and Affirmative Action
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Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 10:37:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  6 10:37:12 1985
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> ->First, I find that many white males are promoted for reasons other 
> ->than education, experience, competency, etc. and that even
> ->when those reasons are a factor, other factors also come into
> ->play. People are promoted or hired or not fired because they go to church
> ->with the person making the decision (or someone known to the
> ->person making the decision), because they belong to the same
> ->fraternity, because they lived in the same town or because they 
> ->went to the same school...
>
>  These "social footladders" are just as difficult to penetrate for
> the average white male as they are for blacks & females, consider
> Mr X from Average Town with no parental financial support to 
> speak of. How does he pay the country club fees ? He went to a
> State University (because his parents couldn't afford Haaaarvard).

Well, my husband is a fairly "average white male" (though don't tell him
I said so) who was bright enough & hard working enough to be accepted
by Haaaarvard & surprise!  If you are accepted, they make sure you
can afford to go.  (Though I have to admit they don't pay your country
club fees...)  Of course, if he was a Kennedy,$I suppose he *would* have
had an easier time of it, but how many Kennedys (Kennedies?) are there?
-- 


		Karen Isaacson
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		karen@rand-unix.arpa