Comments on: Black Student Union Statement February 2010 UCSD Black Student Union Address! State of Emergency!

By: jay

jay — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:28:39 +0000

this is absurd, black building and safe zone for black students. let me tell ya something, i was enrolled in a south central high school for my sophmore year, which was totally black, i was 1 of maybe 3 white kids in the entire school. i had to put up with all kinds of discrimination from blacks. stealing my books, trying to punck me for money more then once, i had to fight every day to the point of exhaustion. after a ton of black eyes and good ass kickings the “brothers” lightened up on me. i hated going at first but if you scrap with enough and hold your ground, and I did, you earn the respect. these blacks crying at UCSD are being treated no different then I was. suck it up and deal with it. from the sound of these demands it sounds like the black students want to go back to segregation. “safe building for black students” thats as funny as the “BET” black entertainment television, or the naacp academy awards? what? are the black leaders serious. how would that fly if some white owned television station called itself WET and never had even 1 white guest on the show. i’ll tell ya! al sharpton and naacp would be having a rally and playing that over used race card again, as always. suck it up and deal with it. a COMPTON COOKOUT, it’s actually pretty funny from an outside opinion. you ever been to a compton cookout. there’s no crying in college!

By: heyhey

heyhey — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:12:23 +0000

i think the demands may be a little too far; as in the specific demands. but there should definitely be some suggestions that actually get carried out. I think there is a race issue here, like everywhere, and that the Compton Cookout is not why people should be pissed. it is just one event in which under different circumstances it would not be a big deal; I think the black students should make an issue of the statewide discrepancies in the ratio between black students and non black students to show that this is a structural issue. They should also rally against the statewide tuition hike that effects mostly low income students who are more often minority than that of wealthier students. Race does matter ladies and gentleman, I hate to ruin your colorblind lens of “objectivity” when it comes to admissions and tuition in higher education. I think the fact here is not that the Black Student Union or African Americans in California in general are advocating to let in people who are not qualified, but that there is an inherent bias in who we deem qualified. We all know it is not just your GPA and your SAT score, but other intangibles, like are you from La Jolla or Escondido? did you go to a nice public school that got adequate funding? what places have you worked at before? did your parents go to this school? blah blah blah blah. Quit acting like you all deserve to be there just because you got a 3.5 and a 1600 and for no other reason than that.

By: Mike Castillo

Mike Castillo — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:08:37 +0000

I can relate to the discrimination at UCSD. I was an employeed at UC Irvine and I experienced the worst nightmare. They tried to shuffle it under the rug,but I will continue to tell my story. I was taken behind closed doors with Charlene Bradley, The Registrar of UC IRVINE and my supervisor. She made fun of my hair and it is reported that She physically abused Frank Porras by grabing his hand and preventing him from leaving the conference room. I had a coworker send me nude pictures by university email. My FMLA was denied to take care of myself for diabetes and for the care of my mother. They have said lies about me and ruined my life. I worked for the same office of almost 10 years. They tried to offer my $7,000, but I refused because I want the truth heard of the discriminatory practices that take place on the campus of UC Irvine

By: Klaymore

Klaymore — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:07:21 +0000

Hey guys, demand in one hand, crap in the other, and see which one fills up first.

And incidentally, Frederick Douglas, MLK or Thurgood Marshall–who believed in presonal responsibility and devoted their lives to making sure that blacks didn’t have to stay in “special places”–would have slapped your stupid heads if they’d read that list of demands.

Quit whining about what a bunch of whitebread punks did, because your whining legitimizes their mockery. If you want revenge, get it in the time-honored manner: Major in math, biology, chemestry, or engineering. If you’re currently an ethnic studies major, drop that major; do it today. It’s not a real academic discipline, and it will take you nowhere. Really.

By: Realistically Speaking

Realistically Speaking — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:55:34 +0000

@Kevin Precisely.

By: Dakota

Dakota — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:32:33 +0000

@Sankofa – That should be everyone, including the children of faculty and special race-based cases.

By: Sankofa

Sankofa — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:36:31 +0000

Alucard worte “… it is meaningless to let someone in who is not qualified if they can’t keep up and fail…”

do your comments include the children of UCSD alumni or faculty who are not qualified yet somehow receive an acceptance letter?

By: Benito Juarez

Benito Juarez — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:11:49 +0000

I will tell you what I have seen these last few days, I saw people from different backgrounds, my children, my brothers and sisters come together in solidarity, and got the message heard.

This reminds me of a parable from the good book where a Levite and Priest come upon a man who fell among thieves and they both individually passed by and didn’t stop to help him. Finally a man of another race came by, he got down from his beast, decided not to be compassionate by proxy and got down with the injured man, administered first aid, and helped the man in need. Jesus ended up saying, this was the good man, this was the great man, because he had the capacity to project the “I” into the “thou,” and to be concerned about his brother.

You see, the Levite and the Priest were afraid, they asked themselves, “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?”

But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?”

That’s the question before us. The question is not, “If I stop to help my brother in need, what will happen to me?” The question is, “If I do not stop to help my brother, what will happen to him or her?” That’s the question.

God bless all my brothers and sister that stood side by side with our brothers and sisters in need, when you saw a wrong you tried to correct it, you may argue the methods but not the reasons. I know God will not discriminate by country of origin, our sex, our orientation, color of our skin, or our religion as men do.

By: Patrick Ross

Patrick Ross — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:03:58 +0000

Way to prove all of Hanna Guthrie’s points, BSU.

By: Upgrayedd

Upgrayedd — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:02:31 +0000

Aida, I got that. It’s in the title. Still, I want to know your opinion on the matter, not just a repost, unless the point of repost is to stimulate thought and discussion in the replies.

So… about them cupcakes?