Sunday, July 22, 2007

 

JSH: I have more stories

Before the incident when my high school bizarrely decided a rule change to prevent me from getting an award for the highest SAT score, I had twice gone to Duke University under their Talent Identification or TIP program.

The second summer that I went I had a "white" roommate and he was just such a nice guy and it looked like it would just be another fun time at Duke University for the summer, and this time I was learning programming as I was taking classes in C programming taught by an IBM researcher on loan from the IBM Research Triangle in Durham, North Carolina.

Well, this nice roommate of mine noticed me hanging out with some nice looking girls—hey I was a normal enough teenage male in many ways—and one day he sits me down in our room to explain to me how he didn't have a problem with black people in general but that he didn't want to see me around any white women. He was against race mixing and wanted me to understand that I was NOT to involve myself with white girls.

I listened in shock.

It was like out of the blue from someone who had acted like the nicest person and was even my roommate!

So I went to one of the advisors for the TIP program and told him the story. He just kind of shrugged and said there were just people who thought that way, and that was it.

I was left to handle the situation on my own.

That is the United States of America that I think few people not from here understand.

There are people here who are middle class who would not think of doing anything like that kid did, but there are these other people mixed right in there with them who think that is the most natural thing to do in the world.

So you can come here and be destroyed out of the blue by people who will smile at you as they do it, as they fight some wacky class battle that is mostly in their heads.

That takes away accomplishment on merit as notice these people don't care about merit, so I could have the highest SAT score of my class. They did not care.

The other kid could have a lower score.

They did not care.

Give him the award anyway because to them it's not about merit.

It's about class.

Class warfare in the United States is simply extremely evolved and very bizarre as it's useless.

The society is at its best when it is middle class, and merit matters.

People here can destroy entire companies when the class warfare people get out of control as they put someone incompetent in charge because they do not care about merit.

The middle class works around them but too often, like with that advisor, the middle class here just shrugs and lets them get away with their bizarre class war.

And it becomes the world's problem when someone like George W. Bush becomes president and now you know more about why this country is at war in Iraq.

It's about some people here fighting class battles—snatching defeat from victory—because for some reason they cannot accept that middle class is better.





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