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How many negroes were enrolled at the Flagship of Tolerance during WWII?
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I'm guessing more than were on t.u.'s 1969 football team.
You’d be wrong. There was one African American on the 1969 football team. He was a freshman named Julius Whittier. At the time freshman were not allowed to play. It would be 20 years after WWII before A&M admitted the first African American, 14 years after Texas’ first African American student.
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That is the point of the top 10% rule, so that children of inner city schools and children of rural areas actually get a shot at higher education when their grade school education that WE AS TAX PAYERS PROVIDED didn't prepare them for the SAT course. Until we can truly provide ALL students with the exact same education (LMAO good luck with that) Those that workhard and strive deserve the OPPORTUNITY to achieve a secondary education. If the fail then it's of their own accord.
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The top 10% is a cluster**** and hamstrings our top Universites(UT and A&M) from competing with other top universities for out of state students, as well as some of the states best students. Without massive reforms including capping the percentage of students admitted under the top 10% and/or allowing the Universities to admit them to the system rather than the campus of choice and allow the best of those students to earn their way to Austin and College Station(this is how UT’s provisional program now operates) it will negatively impact both Universities. If nothing else, in a few years the number of students that both are forced to admit will rise above ideal enrollment numbers and overall education will suffer as the student/professor ratio will balloon.
But most importantly, as you touched on, this program is a band-aid on a massive chest wound. The only way to fix it is to start at elementary school and work your way up. Primary education can be fixed, but no one has the stomach for the political fight.
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“Racism is definitely still a problem on campus. Here at the University of Texas, a statue of Jefferson Davis graces one of our quads and the last minstrel show on campus was in 1964. Racist attitudes do, at times, quietly prevail. UT itself is not very diverse for its size, and the University has long been grappling with admissions policies related to affirmative action.
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While I have no doubt that racism exists at UT, this is bad quote to back it up. A minstrel show over half a century ago? And a statue of Jefferson Davis? History is history. We have one of George Washington too, and he owned slaves. We’re also the only school West of the Mississippi with an MLK statue and we have a huge Barbara Jordan statue. Tearing down the old confederate statues is a stupid and shot-sighted neglect to history. When I see statues of Washington, Davis, King, and Jordan all on one campus I see the progress of a nation, state, and University. All three of which strive to be better than the generation before.
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BMED I just lost all respect for you. You aren't a representative of TAMU. My uncle was in charge of a certain department of the Vet School at TAMU and came from absolutely ZERO. Due to the financial crash in the late 80s my family lost everything. The education system in my home town had deteriorated so much that it was almost over taken by the State Master. Are you going to say I nor my Uncle never had any aspirations? Comments like that are proof as to why we need diversity. Not just ethnic diversity but all sorts of diversity. Generalized blanket statements like that prove your ignorance and sadden me that you ever made it into TAMU.
Tmoney, you just made BMED’s point. You and your uncle both came from tough financial situations. But you did have aspirations. You busted your ass, and you went to college.
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A kid that is vadictorian of his school deserves the opportunity to try to compete on the next leve. If he or she fails, then it is no one's fault but their own. However, he or she should be rewarded for their hard work with the opportunity to continue to work hard.
What valedictorian was getting left out of college completely before the top 10% law? Before Colt McCoy no one knew where the hell Jim Ned was. It is a Podunk school in a Podunk town and most of the graduate don’t move any farther away than Abilene. My wife and brother-in-law grew up in a home of modest means, but that valued education. Both were valedictorians and both went to college. My bil got an academic scholarship to Princeton. My wife went to SWT because she wanted to study education, but had acceptance and scholarships to schools around the country.
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the "economic difference" was a completely unpaid labor component associated with southern state's commodities - let alone the moral issues associated with those that profited on the slave trade itself.
There were more millionaires in Mississippi than anywhere else in the country due to this.
To say that slavery wasn't the driving component of the war is being intellectually dishonest.
Forced labor drove the southern economies, which drove the "State Rights" advocates, which drove succession.
Jefferson Davis symbolizes all of that and should not be put in the same sentence with George Washington nor Thomas Jefferson simply because they "owned slaves"
The later two built this country and the first tried his damnedest to tear it apart
Why don’t you explain Texas in the Confederacy then. Very little slave ownership or trade. Economy not built on it. Also the vast majority of southern whites did not own slaves.
And Jefferson Davis was also trying to protect many of the principles the county was built on, including states rights and a limited Federal Government. This is not a clear cut black and white issue. Hardly anything in history is. And the more we water it down the less we learn from our past.
As to the OP, do you have a source and context for that quote? Just curious as fan of history and facts.
