Good find, though it still leaves 60% as white.

I never realised there was this social apartheid in admissions though. I thought we gave that up a few years back.

Reply 49

S.C.M.

Bubbles*de*Milo

Ahhh, 'pretty much', it all makes sense now. :rolleyes:

I knew you would get there eventually.

Reply 50

forsaken_earth

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As for the argument, I don't have enough information to comment.

However, these sorts of scandals make me feel uncomfortable. It's like anything you say can be interpreted as racism and then you'll get your ass jailed for it.

Reply 51

SomeNextPirate

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terpineol

That said, it wouldn't surprise me if she is going through that "my people have been oppressed" stage that most black people seem to go through in my experience, and according to several I have spoken to its part of growing up as a black.

While going through such a phase they are generally somewhat antagonistic, and perhaps one can see why the medical school may want to give them the shove before feathers started flying in the work place.

What? This comment just adds to the validity of the article.

What a disgusting thing to say...Talk about stereotyping .

Reply 52

terpineol

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forsaken_earth

As for the argument, I don't have enough information to comment.

However, these sorts of scandals make me feel uncomfortable. It's like anything you say can be interpreted as racism and then you'll get your ass jailed for it.

The worst thing is those things you say that weren't meant that way.

For instance

A mate an I were in a cafe having a cup of tea the other day when I mentioned that a rather hardworking and thoroughly decent bloke in my year, who is also rather dark, had been working like a slave on our presentation.

I didn't see the potential for racist joke in this until it was too late, but something in crossing that line so absentmindedly was absolutely hilarious. I can see such a verbal screw up could well be taken as racism, even though it was in no way intended as such.

Reply 53

terpineol

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SomeNextPirate

What? This comment just adds to the validity of the article.

What a disgusting thing to say...Talk about stereotyping .

The bloke who pointed it out to me though was as black as they come.

Not my observation.

Reply 54

forsaken_earth

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terpineol

The worst thing is those things you say that weren't meant that way.

For instance

A mate an I were in a cafe having a cup of tea the other day when I mentioned that a rather hardworking and thoroughly decent bloke in my year, who is also rather dark, had been working like a slave on our presentation.

I didn't see the potential for racist joke in this until it was too late, but something in crossing that line so absentmindedly was absolutely hilarious. I can see such a verbal screw up could well be taken as racism, even though it was in no way intended as such.

lol you really do have a way with words

Reply 55

SomeNextPirate

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terpineol

The bloke who pointed it out to me though was as black as they come.

Not my observation.

So you just repeat everything people tell you?

Something which evidently untrue, and said just for impact no doubt.

Reply 56

forsaken_earth

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terpineol

The bloke who pointed it out to me though was as black as they come.

Not my observation.

Ive heard several black people say similar things.

Any minority has to learn to cope with it. There's no point of denying that racial differences exist. Whether that becomes an issue is a different question.

Reply 57

forsaken_earth

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SomeNextPirate

So you just repeat everything people tell you?

Something which evidently untrue, and said just for impact no doubt.

I'd be interested to hear what you find so disgusting about that statement.

Reply 58

terpineol

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SomeNextPirate

So you just repeat everything people tell you?

Something which evidently untrue, and said just for impact no doubt.

Thus far I've only ever known four black people, such is their absence both here and where I grew up, so I don't like to think I've known enough of them to comment. Though of the four I've known one pointed this out, one went though a terrible 'everything is racist' phase, and the other two are old enough to have been through it. One apparently went through it a few years back, and I can't understand enough of what the final one says to engage in any meaningful conversation.

What do people who have grown up with blacks think on the issue?