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jaichind
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« on: June 14, 2015, 08:08:16 AM »

There was a campaign to push up the URMs at Thomas Jefferson High School, a magnet school in NOVA.  Since I grew up in the Greater DC area and had a bunch of friends from TJHS I did read up about it.  The main problem I had with the campaign was that it does not mention that Asians were 70% of TJHS which is the real reason why URMs were, underrepresented, at TJHS.  The campaign was led by one Martina Hone who was a community organizer and projected herself as its only African American member in the Fairfax County School Board.  Only problem with this narrative is her picture from her linkdin account is

 

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jaichind
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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2015, 08:55:36 AM »

Well, she can also take the Leftist argument that "race is a social construct" so there is "no objective criteria for definition of race."  So who is to say she is not Black.
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jaichind
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« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2015, 04:25:44 PM »

If she says she's black, she's black. That's it. End of story. No one has the right to define her race but her and frankly, all of the transphobia surrounding this story is sickening.

I assume then you have no issue with

http://nypost.com/2015/04/12/mindy-kalings-brother-explains-why-he-pretended-to-be-black/

Where one Vijay Chokal-Ingam pretended to be black to get into medical school.

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