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16146, RE: the niche/ support systems..
Posted by Zesi, Wed Mar-28-01 06:23 AM
You've really contradicted yourself here.

>that schools create is unparalled...
>
>whites have the luxury of having
>many friends in higher positions
>of power (usually cause they
>have white faces just like
>their own)...and lets just say
>one was to lose their
>job...and was having a hard
>time finding one....is that graduate
>EVER really faced with hardships?
>they could always call up
>one of their college chums
>and you KNOW a job
>would be 'found' for them...the
>good ol' boy system....no matter
>HOW broke or poor they
>might look...there is a society
>and a system that that
>graduate can always be accepted
>back into and found belonging
>too...priviledge...period.
>
>
>a white graduate is never broke...
>
>
>
>I'm going to speculate (sarcasm) that
>no matter how many successful
>graduates you have from HBCU's...there
>will never be a priviledge
>ladder system like that...it takes
>leaders and power positions to
>trickle down so that others
>can see potential...i'm just not
>seeing that in segregated schools.
>(again, my dealings with K-12
>in detroit)


So what will integration do? A good ol' boy will not give you any support if you're at his institution, or you're at Howard if you're black. Even if you get a college friend to help worm your way in, that company is probably more likely to deny your friend's rec, I'm sure.


It just BES that way sometimes.

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