VCA, read "A Theory of Justice" by the recently departed John Rawls.
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You can have black pride and be proud of your heritige
You can have hispanic pride and be proud of your heritige
You can have asian pride and be proud of your heritige
You can have arab pride and be proud of your heritige
If you have white pride you are a racist
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Though I think any self-identification based on a fiction such as race is silly, and not so good, VCA you're missing or downplaying the point. The difference is power, and it's as obvious as a cannonball to the face that caucasians dominate American society. Racism is -still- a serious problem, whether it is the classical 'i hate you nig' associated with the south or the less obvious, but still
pervasive arrogant, self-segregating white population of the north.
Not to mention, you lumping people into broad, sweeping categories such as 'asian' or 'hispanic' is also racism, I would say.
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You are applying for college scholarships. You are the most qualified. But you are white. Someone of hispanic descent who is less qualified gets the scholarship.
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Merit is -hardly- the only qualification for college admissions. Not just diversity, but also athletic prowess and legacies get people in, in spite of merit. No one is suing UMich because their football players get preferential treatment (it says so on their admissions calculation sheet), or Harvard because they let in some dumb-as-rocks blueblood named Tadd Winthrop because his family has been going to the big H since 1636. It's bloody hypocrisy.
Many college scholarships go to minorities, yes, but so what? This has nothing to do with AA.