My experience was slightly different. Although the one you expressed above fits with my co-worker (now retired from crazy company) Lando's. Who had to fight to get into law school. His high school guidance counselor was racist and was steering all the black students to get jobs after school and not go on to college. His parents who were educated fought her, and he ignored her and found his own graduate schools to apply to. He also had a mentor - an esteemed black male role model who talked him into pursuing law school over med school.
But he told me about an African-American woman who was brilliant and would have made a great lawyer - that was steered in the wrong direction by this guidance counselor and her life didn't turn out as well.
There's ways around this, as you can see above - but you have to want to find them. Lando did, the young woman did not.
Let's face it life is not fair, and most human beings are selfish assholes. How else would we end up with a sociopath in the white house, and still have people supporting him? For a lot of people - their default setting is selfish, unself-aware, asshole.
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Date: 2020-09-06 01:08 pm (UTC)My experience was slightly different. Although the one you expressed above fits with my co-worker (now retired from crazy company) Lando's. Who had to fight to get into law school. His high school guidance counselor was racist and was steering all the black students to get jobs after school and not go on to college. His parents who were educated fought her, and he ignored her and found his own graduate schools to apply to.
He also had a mentor - an esteemed black male role model who talked him into pursuing law school over med school.
But he told me about an African-American woman who was brilliant and would have made a great lawyer - that was steered in the wrong direction by this guidance counselor and her life didn't turn out as well.
There's ways around this, as you can see above - but you have to want to find them.
Lando did, the young woman did not.
Let's face it life is not fair, and most human beings are selfish assholes. How else would we end up with a sociopath in the white house, and still have people supporting him? For a lot of people - their default setting is selfish, unself-aware, asshole.