Also, (and this is why it relates to my title Angry White Girl) it is excluding to those who have made better choices. I’ve made excellent choices. (I’ve made high grades; I’ve avoided sex, drugs, and alcohol partially out of moral conviction and partially for fear of the consequences; I’ve spent several of my summers working, etc.) Why should I be punished for that? Shouldn’t these choices be encouraged to all youth?
Besides my scholarship search, I’ve also developed this Angry White Girl attitude from another recent experience. Someone left a comment saying, “Let me guess,
*Homeschooled
*Never been off Mommy and Daddy’s healthcare
*Middle class
*White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
*Ignorant of the history of the tax system in America
*Opposed to human rights (humans are animals, genius)
*Opposed to the central moral tenet of your own religion”
He’s right on some of those, but so what? That brings me to the much-anticipated point to this whole rant: When did being the majority become a bad thing?
The incidents I have just discussed as well as Hubble’s article are pretty close to what some people would call “reverse discrimination.” I, however, do not. Just as Hubble said of the Angry White Man, “The victimhood syndrome buzzwords… don’t resonate with him.” I feel the same way. I don’t feel disenfranchised. I simply want an even playing field. I want that “equal chance” that everyone else gets to actually be equal. I don’t want to be called a racist or be told I have no sympathy. More than anything, I just want to live my life with as little government intervention as possible and I want to be treated the same as everybody else.
Angry White Girl Part 4
By Katie Marie - Posted on March 11th, 2008
Well... the reason some people are probably reacting negatively to what you say are because, well, you're the stereotypical good girl. Good grades, never done anything wrong... etc. etc. and talking about why you don't get more scholarship opportunities than a black girl in the ghetto struggling to do her homework while gun shots wizz by won't really get positive feed back.
One, being part of a stereotype is not bad, per say, but it is by no means a great thing. Why? because you're just like everyone else. In order to get above everyone else you have to have a catch. An innovative idea, etc. etc. BTW there are a lot of scholarships for a smart girl with a 4.0 average, and no record, but i'm not gonna go there. The reason there are no scholarships just for being white is because white people were never really discriminated against. Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, all discriminated against at some point in America, so to pay them back the government and organizations throw money at them.
The day that everyone is on the same playing field is not this day... sadly enough. Minorities will always face hardships that majorities won't. I dont say that as a black person, i say that as someone who has been in a history class
my advice to you... smoke some pot, chill out, stop being so angry at the world for not giving you things on a silver platter, and come up with something brilliant
I've mentioned this to you before, but posting several short, related posts in succession is kind of rude to the other bloggers who work a long time to craft their pieces.
First, it pushes other posts off the recent blogs list faster. Second, it is on obvious ploy to get extra points. 200 words is not the limit; it's the MINIMUM. You could have worked all four of these posts into one tightly written post. It would improve the flow of your message, and it improve your standing among your fellows.
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman
You should save your "Angry White Girl" rants and read them when you are older and you might see the naivete in them. Really though, if you got a scholarship everybody would. I am white and middle class too and my parents are married. I don't complain about the fact there are less scholarships for me, I apply for the ones that there are. You cannot do anythngi about the fact that whites ruined lives of many minorites at certain points in history but what you can do is stop complaining and just take the scholarships that you can get. Most essay scholarships don't discriminate so much, so why don't you write an essay? I know there are opportunities out there for you, but you are choosing to complain and you are waiting for them to come to you. Don't.
1. How are you being punished for making "good choices"?
2. Why are you splitting up one post into several different ones? You should only do that if it's extremely long and each part can stand alone. This part is obviously the continuation of the previous.
I just want to remind you that you're complaining about the distribution of scholarships to minorities on a site where your race or your disposition do not impact whether you get the scholarship. That, alone, should show you that it's not difficult to get scholarships based on merit.
Keep in mind: the only thing that matters is how well you're writing and participating on this site. So, if you don't win the scholarship because you've decided to run up your points by writing short and choppy posts, please don't complain that you didn't get the scholarship because you're white and middle-class.