This intriguing quote by Aaron Powell really sparks a fire in me and gets my thoughts turning. ... Personally, I have worked endlessly to get into the college of my choice. Higher education is such a competitive process, and for others to get accepted somewhere I didn't just because of their skin color, despite my scores being higher than theirs, is inequitable and causes me to resent the people experiencing preferential treatment, just as Wilkins is shining light upon. ... Whites and Asians are being blocked out jobs and school that they highly qualified and deserving of, just to make sp...

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Neo-Racism When I walk around my campus, specifically when I wonder around the HUB (a common area for us college kids to eat, relax, study), it is hard for me to not notice the color line separating my peers. ... My problem isn't within the fact that each of the groups mentioned consist of people primarily of one race, my issue lies within the statements made by my peers that are in those groups. ... To clarify my point, I will state it's okay to have different societies that are primarily one race, as long as that society respects and values the differences of other races and are ab...

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"The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than artificial forcing.... Being a black writer meant you needed to be good at squeezing your black perspective through a narrow space where the white outlook connected with your own....

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