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From: tedrick@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
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Subject: Re: privatization of education (& discrimination)
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Date: Fri, 1-Aug-86 05:47:07 EDT
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>Gee, where is this "right to an education" defined?  It didn't seem be to
>case when I was trying to get an education in the 1970s.  (Of course, I
>was poverty class white -- and all good liberals know that such things
>don't exist.)

Whites don't have it so easy despite all the propaganda against them.
I've been discriminated against for being white for most of my life.
I went to mostly black schools, in a poor urban area. I was often
afraid for my life and several times beaten up by gangs of blacks
(because I was white).

I guess that was a big reason why I became interested in weight-lifting,
martial arts, theory/history of war and such things.

I quit grad school after the only advisor I could find refused to
talk to me because I wasn't a "minority". When I told him I was
a minority of one he laughed.

Everything I achieved was achieved after hard work and against
strong opposition. Really like a war almost.

The current system promotes mediocrities because they happen
to be minorities, and discriminates against talented individuals
sometimes, merely because they are not officially ethnic minorities.
As if Danish/German/ScotchIrish/Cherokee is some kind of majority.

Anyway, things have gone too far. If you push someone into a corner
don't be surprised if he fights back.