Texas student athletes boycotting recruiting and alumni activities to push for racial inclusivity on campus
Asian Americans are denied entry into schools because they are too smart and their spots are given to someone else. See Harvard.
Denied entry because they are too smart? Do you really believe that?
It is true. Well, not exactly because they are too smart, but because colleges want to balance out races among its students and too many (east) Asians qualify to make that possible (for most selective schools).
As the Berkeley President once said to white students who complained about affirmative action, "we can fill the entire freshmen class with qualified Asian students". The reason why the most selective schools started emphasizing extra-curricular activities over standardized test is because too many Asians were scoring better than white students on those standardized tests it was making it difficult to keep the number of Asian students at the school small.
It is always funny to me that white students are all upset about affirmative action because they are not the ones getting rejected because of affirmative action, it is the Asian students.
But most Asian communities don't complain loudly about it. The Harvard suit is not supported widely among Asian communities (because we understand racism first hand and why affirmative action is needed). My daughter's academic records are good enough to get into Harvard if she was black or latino, and would have about 50/50 shot if she was white (better if I was an alumni). But she has almost no chance as an Asian.
It is what it is.
you guys should just check the wrong box on the race/ethnicicty section.
Asians do have a tougher chance of getting into university’s but that still doesn’t answer my question of how does that In any way relate to the article.
edit: meant to respond to don browns mustache not gameboy
Asian Americans haven't committed enough arson yet for people to care about discrimination against them.
Who's the fucking idiot?
Good
Isn’t having a black athletic history section in the Hall of Honor discriminatory?
The West still struggles with antisemitism after 2000 years.
I am not feeling particularly sanguine that any of this will lead to any significant change. Once burrowed bias is extremely hard to get out.
To paraphrase Roosevelt at least they’ll fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Generational change takes generations. I looked up the mayors, police chiefs, and sheriffs of the 10 largest cities (and their counties for the sheriffs.) 15 are white. 11 are black. 4 are Hispanic and 1 is Asian. 23 are men and 7 are women. My guess is 50 years ago when I was born, those 30 leadership positions were mostly filled by white males.
Alabama’s football team didn’t even integrate until 1971.
It's a shrewd, smart approach. They're not jeopardizing the team's preparation or their own scholarships, but they're leveraging their positions by refusing to sing and dance for alumni and recruits. Not overplaying their hand, but still backing the University into a corner unless it wants to see the future of the program start to slowly circle the drain. Well done.
They are also demanding UT give money to BLM......ummmm no, that is not reasonable.
Herman can and should reduce their playing time for this. Whether he has the balls to do it is a question that remains to be seen.
What if a man is orange?
It’s only a matter of time ‘til the angry mob turns their eye towards Yost.
It will be interesting watching the virtue signal crew in here squirm with that.
Enough with that damn term. It's so smug and hypocritical. Virtue signaling is part of human nature. People have been demonstrating conformity with social norms and expectations through actions and behaviors in order to live together in groups as long as humans have been humans. People that associate with right wing ideologies are virtue signaling every time the criticize people on the left for expressing compassion and demanding change. Every time you write or utter the phrase, virtue signaling, you ARE virtue signaling to members of your own ideological social order.
You’ve been virtue signaling the shark community for 4 1/2 years so you’ve lost all credibility with me and other dolphin lovers.
I guess is should have given you a trigger warning.
Oh now I get it, cuz people on the right can never show compassion and don't have a compassionate bone in their body right?
Did I say that? No.
What I'm saying is that any time someone makes a public statement that shows the slightest but of compassion, they invariably get written off as 'virtue signaling.' As if there is something inherently wrong with making statements that are virtuous. It's a way of avoiding engaging with ideas and arguments by disparaging the speaker with ad hominem attacks.
Many people on the right are compassionate. But there are also many people on the right that are snarky trolls that use vague terms like virtue signaling and SJWs to write off and ignore all kinds of information and people that they disagree with.
Nice straw man [1] you made there ...
[1] You would've preferred "straw person," right? :)
Yost was openly racist when he was our coach, that's undeniable. But his racial views begin to change in the 1930s.
Ward recalled his first trip to Chicago with the team in 1932. At the time, black players usually stayed with local families because the pricier hotels still did not accept black guests. Sure enough, when the team tried to check in, the hotel manager told Yost they did not admit blacks, and they weren’t about to start now. According to Ward, Yost became outraged.
“‘We’ve been staying at this hotel since 1900,’” Ward recalled Yost saying, “‘and we’ll pull every [Michigan] team and I’ll get other Big Ten teams to not stay here!’”
The angry appeal to their financial interest was enough to desegregate the hotel for one night. Ward became only the second African-American to stay in the hotel, the first being the singer Marian Anderson.
There are other examples of Yost’s surprising change of heart from his racist past. He successfully lobbied to get black track star DeHart Hubbard into the university; he volunteered his influence and field house to support an athletic exhibition to raise funds for the Dunbar Center, a local organization that promoted social betterment for African-Americans; and he started Benny Friedman, a practicing Jew, at quarterback in the mid-1920s, then helped him become athletic director at Brandeis University.
Just like Sen KKK Byrd. As long as they’re on your side, they get the benefit of the doubt. Nice squirm.
You see a lot of fans of Robert Byrd posting on here? Dude's been dead for over a decade and there aren't a lot of people who hold him up as a glowing example of a good human being.
Yost, on the other hand, has his name plastered all over the Michigan campus. It is perfectly reasonable to re examine his record.
Except for the current presumptive Dem nominee for President and the 2016 nominee.
What about them? Are they unreformed bigots and white supremacists like Robert Byrd? Or are you just playing the what about game, too?
Demanding that .5% of revenues go to BLM....oh the organization which gives 0 shits about the Death of Cpt. David Dorn? BLM is a fucking sham.
They have to buy guns for CHAZ somehow
It looks like BLM and associated groups are proving successful in getting Paw Patrol removed from television because Chase is a police officer, so clearly it is a very serious and rational organization.
Well, he did shoot that unarmed black lab in the back.
Don’t forget about the cancel culture movement silencing anyone with an opinion differing from their agenda.
“The activist said BLM aims to develop a highly-trained 'military' arm to challenge police brutality head on in the wake of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis“
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8384065/Black-Lives-Matter-leader-declares-war-police.html
So they're not even trying to hide the fact that they're a terrorist organization anymore?
There are white dudes showing up at demonstrations with semi automatic weapons and tactical clothing who are standing apart from the demonstrators. I'd want to bring a gun to protect myself from those guys, especially considering that a lot of cops have been seen to be intent on cracking skulls, rather than protecting and serving.
Who is the terrorist, the black lives matter protestors that wants to arm himself, or the intimidating white guy with the AR 15, body armor and aviator specs standing in the back with his finger on the trigger?
Who is the terrorist? I’m gonna go with the people who are looting, blowing up buildings, and killing cops. I know that’s all the rage these days, but it’s technically still against the law.
By a mile the most violent terrorists in the U.S. are heavily armed organizations made up of white men...and its not even close. The KKK has been Terrorizing blacks for hundreds of years but no serious talk about putting them on a terrorist list.
You do realize 70 buildings in Minneapolis have been burned to THE GROUND, right?
Open your eyes
70 Building is a shame. I certainly wasn't defending that..but there is no way to pin that on any one group. The BLM protest have def been mostly peaceful.
Over here in London...it was far-right groups (again) that came out to stir-up trouble this weekend. Its the far-right groups here and in the U.S. that are behind the vast majority of terrorist acts..Not BLM, not Muslims, far-right white groups...that is a fact. But...Trump singles out Antifa...and people eat that up.
Now lets Open your Eyes...
Are you defending the actions of the KKK?
Do you have any idea of the number of houses burned down by the KKK and its likes over the centuries...the number of people hung and lynched by this terrorist group?
Are you are comparing 70 buildings lost to the actions of the KKK?
Just wait 'til you hear how much money the NRA is donating to the families of mass shootings!
Or they could have come north.
Hoping Harbaugh studies up on his Gerald Ford history. . .
Whenever I think of Texas and racism, I think of Duffy Daugherty at MSU (I know), where he exploited their own ignorance and actively recruited African American players down there. It was the most successful run they've ever had.
Texas had few if any black players then. Can't blame Duffy for that, not sure how he was exploiting them.
He's not saying Duffy exploited the players. He's saying he took advantage of the refusal of southern schools to play black athletes. He exploited the racism of the schools.
The only way to defeat the racism is to see people beyond their skin colors ... and today's sports world is one of the best examples. Inclusiveness happens automatically if everything runs on meritocracy.
most everything isn't run on a meritocracy tho
I'm not 100% clear on what you mean by see beyond skin colors, but my guess is that there is nearly no evidence to support your claim and substantial evidence against it.
In a meritocracy Harvard would be 70% Asian.