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Sep 8, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

500+ years of affirmative action for white people v. ~60 years of affirmative action for non-whites. Not much of a contest, is it?

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Nope. WE WON! But did we?

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Sep 8, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

The other side of this complex issue is that

As a latina, during my first week at ct judicial Dept, I was told by some coworkers that “ I only got the job because of affirmative action. “ My university degree meant nothing to them

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Sep 8, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

I can imagine the response if you said; “You only got the job because you’re a white man”.

Life has become just one big grievance for far too many white people. Hundreds of years of privilege is too heavy a burden I guess.

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Sep 8, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

Unfortunately I believe you are correct. These complainers need to put on their grownup pants and participate in the real world where the rest of the grownups live.

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Sep 8, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

And this sad sack, uneducated or undereducated, unthinking person is in our judicial department? Do we need to examine how this person got their job? I will bet there are too many more examples like this.

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Sep 8, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

There certainly were when I worked there

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And I imagine it wouldn't have mattered to those people that you had a college degree. How ridiculous of them.

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Sep 8, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

If you have access to the NY Times, read today's article titled, "The College Access Index returns".

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Unfortunately, it's PayWalled (which is why I didn't post the URL).

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Sep 8, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

I watched the first two (of 6) episodes of The Conversations Project on Hulu. I'd recommend it. https://youtu.be/jxYgc62BEFk?si=XgLapGRgAht9PoTf

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Oooh. Thank you. I’ve read about this.

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Sep 8, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

You may have seen this:

A New Hulu Series Celebrates the Many Faces of Black Success https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/arts/the-conversations-project.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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Yes, I have, but I can always use a reminder.

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The union I belong to had a very tough conversation on how any organization could survive if it automatically excluded any group automatically. The eventual consensus was we needed the best talent we could find and that meant looking everywhere. It was not an easy process for an older conservative group but we were determined and the results proved the idea . From there we raised rates and conditions so we didn't hear I don't want my kid doing this,

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