Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-35525658-20180718002000/@comment-36094989-20180804144827

RubySparkles wrote: LoLs@JP

Blacks get the same thing from some folks and I tend to just walk away when its aimed at me because my response to that is much ruder. I'd like to tell them that if their ancestor's weren't so exhausted from trying to exterminate entire Native American nations and stealing their land they might have had the energy to build their own nation and not have needed to enslave and brutalized so many of my ancestors (to build it for them) and I wouldn't be here for you to complain about at all but instead I take the high road and just walk away. Or I can be funny about it and tell them I'll be happy to leave as soon as they hand over my 40 acres and my mule because some of my ancestors didn't get theirs yet😋(Sorry, had to add a little historical humor in there).. Aww, do you flip them off? What if the other person is actually a first or second generation immigrant from Poland or Russia? :) Apparently they also  get their share of "dumb" polish jokes.

I grew up in the suburbs ( "NoVa") and I purposely chose to go to a place where there would be more diversity and people of different backgrounds (plus get away from family). Cornell has been trying to recruit more "under-represented " minorities and tried to give them a head start before their first semester as a freshman by having them attend summer classes for free. I think the engineering school even had tutors assigned to certain students but the retention rate  has been pretty dismal. An entire frat almost got shut down because one of their guests yelled out a racist comment from the veranda to a person walking by, and Cornell at least put a forefront of enforcing zero tolerance policy towards such behavior....nevertheless, the retention rate is still dismal.

Now, stranger things start happening in certain Ph.D programs- minority scholarships get awarded to white students :D Bwahahaha