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 Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:38 pm
long story short, my school's making us think about college from the start of highschool, and we have a class to prepare us for college and everything.
and we looked at scholarships?
some of them were literally saying you had to have a certain skin color to apply and possibly get a scholarship (sure, i knew this was a thing, but it really didn't hit me until that moment).
seriously, two of them said you had to be black or something similar.
and i just
WELL
SORRY FOR BEING WHITE
emotion_donotwant
(i'm not saying that if you're not white it's suddenly really terrible and you should feel bad- i'm just really annoyed about this, partly because i would have been able to get two of them if i tried hard enough but nope i'm white so i can't get them.)
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:51 pm
i can't find any scholarships because i'm a white middle-class girl, so i can't get anything, especially since all i ever do is freaking draw.
WHAT. THE. HELL.
and then there's the people that ooze through high school and they get the scholarships! cat_scream
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:56 pm
Kitalpha Hart i can't find any scholarships because i'm a white middle-class girl, so i can't get anything, especially since all i ever do is freaking draw.
WHAT. THE. HELL.
and then there's the people that ooze through high school and they get the scholarships! cat_scream i think my family's a bit above middle class? but yeah.
oh yeah, that annoys me- although i kind of am oozing along (i'd probably win an award for all the putting off of homework i do and how anxious i get during tests) right now. >.>
and i play the cello, along with writing a minimal amount and drawing (somewhat horribly). apparently people look for things like that? idk. most of them (the scholarships) were for sports too, which i found hilarious- mainly because people always say that brains matter more, when the actuality was staring me straight in the face.
oh, and then the "you have to be a middle-class, (insert skin color thing here), (insert more things here)" was just annoying.
personally, it just reminds me of some f-cked up white savoir complex thing, but that's just me and my royally pissed mood right now.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:29 pm
oh, you're a middle-class white guy that's highly qualified? i'm sorry, but we must take the black woman who doesn't know how to count to two instead
NO cat_scream
we're in the lower end of middle-class
i never do my homework
i have a dA account (i believe there is a link in my Sig, but if not...kitalphahart.deviantart.com) that has over 500 deviations
now to make an actual profile and expand... cat_gonk
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:44 pm
Kitalpha Hart oh, you're a middle-class white guy that's highly qualified? i'm sorry, but we must take the black woman who doesn't know how to count to two instead
NO cat_scream
we're in the lower end of middle-class
i never do my homework
i have a dA account (i believe there is a link in my Sig, but if not...kitalphahart.deviantart.com) that has over 500 deviations
now to make an actual profile and expand... cat_gonk exactly!
well.. kind of. it depends sometimes.
but really, just because he's white and middle-class doesn't mean that they magically don't need a scholarship.
my god, world.
i do my homework about 40% of the time? that has to go up. :/
and i'm assuming we're in the middle of above middle-class. my mom's a doctor at the state university, so i'm assuming she gets a pretty good salary? she's not paid as much as people would expect. and my dad gets paid pretty well if he manages to keep things up and running, so to speak (he works with stocks).
and my stepmom's not employed atm.
so yeah, they make a fair amount of money, and we can afford to go on vacation, blah blah blah. but even then, i don't have money saved up and i would but a giant burden on my parents if i had them help me pay for college. i would love a scholarship that would help me out even the littlest bit, but i probably won't be able to because my skin tone and how much my parents make MATTERS SO MUCH.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:50 pm
i can understand the people that want to do that.
but the people that take the money and run? not so much cat_talk2hand
my mom has 2 jobs and isn't making much
my dad has a back injury and is out of work
i have a summer job that is ending soon
frickin life.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:52 pm
Kitalpha Hart i can understand the people that want to do that.
but the people that take the money and run? not so much cat_talk2hand
my mom has 2 jobs and isn't making much
my dad has a back injury and is out of work
i have a summer job that is ending soon
frickin life. oh yikes, that's not good. hope your dad gets better!
and could you explain what people would want to do? i'm a bit lost on that point.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:57 pm
he's been out 4-5 years. because of what happened, he can't work any job again. he's restricted to light lifting
and there are people out there that get money from scholarships, cash it out, drink/party away and never show to college.
waste of money. save time and money. shoot those people.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:13 pm
Kitalpha Hart he's been out 4-5 years. because of what happened, he can't work any job again. he's restricted to light lifting
and there are people out there that get money from scholarships, cash it out, drink/party away and never show to college.
waste of money. save time and money. shoot those people. dang, that sucks. D:
and really? wow, that's just.. wow. and someone could have used that money to actually go to college, too.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:15 pm
there are people that use welfare to buy high-tech gaming computers! or use it for drugs! or other stupid crap!
and then they whine that they have no money.
I WUNDEER WHYYYY emotion_awesome
frickin idiots XD
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:19 pm
Kitalpha Hart there are people that use welfare to buy high-tech gaming computers! or use it for drugs! or other stupid crap!
and then they whine that they have no money.
I WUNDEER WHYYYY emotion_awesome
frickin idiots XD unfortunately, some people are giant idiots and stuff. although there's many more people who actually use it for what its use was supposed to be used for- like actually using it for college and all that. if i had to guess, it would be much less people misusing the money versus people not using the money.
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:20 pm
i still think those people should be shot
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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:22 pm
Kitalpha Hart i still think those people should be shot that's a bit drastic. maybe just those two things taken away or something? or fined. although even then, some people would argue that would be extreme. .-.
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Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:05 am
and if there's a guaranteed death penalty for such a thing, then less people might do it, especially if it's done right when they get the evidence.
though if the squirrel it away and actually use it to benefit the kids or whatev (like, say, a good laptop for school), that's different.
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:50 pm
Discriminating by skin color?
Gee, I coulda swore there was a word for that.
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