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Originally Posted by Jayems
Can someone explain this to me, and I'm being 100% honest because I want to understand.
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"Listen up. I got a question for ya. If there can be a Ms. White Beauty Pagent then why the f*** can't there be a Ms. Black Beauty Pagent... F***! I mean, if there can be a Ms. Black Beauty Pagent, then why can't there be a G.D. white one?. Answer this."
If anyone knows what that's from, you get 10 points, redeemable nowhere.
I think there is more of an argument against beauty pagents and black comedy competitions than black student associations. Black student associations are supposed to represent minority concerns given that they are likely misrepresented, or at least underrepresented in the majority power structure. I can tell you that during all my years of university at St. Marys I can't remember there being 1 black member of the student association.
There was a bar fight recently here in Ottawa where several Somalis (late teens early 20s) got into a fight with several university jocks. The police arrested all of the black Somalis and left the jocks off with a warning, but the staff at the bar told the newspapers that it was the jocks that started the whole thing. A Somali community organization organized a letter writing campaign to the mayor which resulted in the Ottawa police apologizing and starting an internal investigation. It gave the power to stop discrimination to the black community. I think these kind of organizations are absolutely necessary.
The defenders of black beauty pagents and black comedy competitions claim that these are to give a leg up to people that wouldn't otherwise get the opportunity to do what they love doing. They claim that given that black people are still, on average, making far less money than white people that these are ways for the black community to promote their own.
I buy the former, not so sure on the latter. But one thing I am sure of; there is no need to have a white student association to represent white views and concerns to the black/asian/hispanic power structure.