cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36073148
A grandmother once said, "you don't sow thorns then expect wheat will grow later on..."
For the record, Black women get 64.1% of all bachelor's degrees, 71.5% of master's degrees, and 65.9% of doctoral, medical, and dental degrees awarded to Black students, i.e., they far outpace Black men within their group.
This shit is about to give me an existential crisis man. I mean, I already had one last week, but this is certifiably incomprehensible on soooooo many levels
Words truly don’t matter. This is some objectively racist shit and there’s a hell of a lot more where that came from, but truly, no one of significance or importance systemically has anything to say about it. I guess we’ll still be mourning 20 years later like we still do for 9/11
And its not just the racism, but the implication that affirmative action/DEI policy is robbing crackers of the jobs that he feels they are "entitled" to. He's directly attacking policy that helps POC overcome the racial prejudices, as Charlie so eloquently demonstrates, that job/college recruiters could hold.
But you know, its just an opinion. Not like such opinions could hurt people, right?