Race In Education
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Race In Education
Fall of 1999, I applied for the University of Idaho to pursue a bachelor degree.
I could be the first in my family to obtain this accomplishment. The issue that
always came to mind was will I have enough money? Racial issues in the state of
Idaho were a concern of mine also, for I was a member of a minority group. How
is it possible for an Asian American, from a low-income family, suppose to fund
their education and mentally tolerate racism in Idaho? I felt scared and
uncertain of what the future held for me. I he question, “how does other
minority groups deal and cope with the issues at hand?” When I graduated high
school in 1994, I was uncertain of what I wanted to do. I failed to get a
scholarship in athletics and had no funding to pay for school. So, I thought to
myself “What am I to do for myself now?” Like most minorities I went to work
for a living and eventually got married. Things got worse and worse as time went
on. Things turned for the worst and I got divorced and was working as a
furniture salesman. I spoke to my parents and told them that I was going to go
to college at the University of Idaho. My father laughed and said, “yea right
and pigs fly.” Certainly all the odds are stacked up against minorities in
getting a better education. With all the issues brought up in America about
equality in the past decade. We find that minorities do have a lot of lenience
in pursuing an education and pursuing professional jobs, “equal
opportunity.” A big question is “how much lenience do we give and who do we
give it to?” In a recent article that I read in the Idaho Statesman,
“Diversity: Idaho and the U.S.” was pretty interesting, but yet still a
harsh reality to minorities. It stated that less than 10 percent of Idaho’s
population was minority. Idaho is the rated 42 out of 50 states in the lowest
percent of minority residents. With numbers so low, does this impact the
lenience of minorities received in colleges and big corporations? Does company
like Micron and Hewlett-Packard in Boise have recruiting problems in hiring
minorities due to affirmative action? Section 601 of the Civil Rights Act of
1964 provides: No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race,
color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the
benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity
receiving Federal financial assistance. (American Constitutional Law) With these
recruiting problems does this affec...
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