Wisconsin students group demands free tuition for black students

[Enfuego]

The student government at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said on Wednesday that black students should be offered free tuition and housing because blacks were legally barred from education during slavery and university remains out of reach for black students today.

The Associated Students of Madison said in a resolution that suburban high school students are over-represented. The group said consideration of ACT and SAT scores in applications upholds "white supremacy" because it restricts opportunities for the poor.
The college has proposed measures aimed at improving diversity.

"The university's rhetoric suggests that it is committed to diversity and inclusion, so this legislation compels the university to move towards action — which is imperative," the resolution's author, ASM Student Council Rep. Tyriek Mack, said in a statement. "If no one challenges the university's empty promises, then the racial composition will remain stagnant."

The resolution demands free tuition, free housing and no fees for all black people, including former inmates.

The proposal calls for 10 percent of donations from the college to bolster financial aid and study the feasibility of test-optional and geographically weighted admissions.

Madison enrollment is currently made up of about two-percent of black students.

University spokeswoman Meredith McGlone noted that the proportion of "students of color" has grown from 11 percent to 15 percent over the last decade.

McGlone said the Chancellor proposed giving first-generation transfers from two-year schools free tuition for a year, contingent on funding in state budget, and a recent $10 million donation will be invested in expanding the Chancellor's Scholarship Program.

In August the university proposed building a black cultural center that would introduce discussions about social differences, along with expanding ethnic studies courses and diversity training for all faculty and staff.

In-state undergraduate tuition has been frozen for four years and Gov. Scott Walker has proposed a 5 percent tuition cut for resident undergraduates in the second year of the upcoming state budget.

Chinese graduate student Yuhong Zhu said the resolution is awkward and he'd rather see more scholarships than a blanket offer of free access.

"I wouldn't appreciate if the school offered me free tuition just because I'm a minority," he said. "We should at least have to work hard for it."

 

[slapshot]

hno:

 

[DesertNole]

Lol.....former inmates....why do blacks always expect free shit?

 

[PatsFanatic]

It diminishes African Americans cry for equality when they turn around and ask for free shit others have to pay for. Thats not equality.

 

[FairWarning]

Through fed/state scholarships and grants, I doubt many pay for any of it at UW.

 

[fletchisrhsm]

Um just about anyone can receive student loans for college. That is bullshit. Secondly, slavery ended 170 years ago. Talk about jumping the shark, fucks sake. We lost 600,000 people ending slavery and billions of dollars in today's dollars. Im going to call it a wash now. And for the record, i would say despite the obvious shitty-ness of slavery do you suppose they ended up in a better place 170 years later? I mean its not like African countries are having incoming immigration problems. Look at a light map of Africa on google.... Africa looks like the water its so dark (NO PUN INTENDED)

 

[StevieRay]

Give me a freaking break on this slavery thing. We can go back and dig at any history then since beginning of time Forget about the past that half these coons prob have no clue about and worry about your future and making it better

 

[StevieRay]

Um just about anyone can receive student loans for college. That is bullshit. Secondly, slavery ended 170 years ago. Talk about jumping the shark, fucks sake. We lost 600,000 people ending slavery and billions of dollars in today's dollars. Im going to call it a wash now. And for the record, i would say despite the obvious shitty-ness of slavery do you suppose they ended up in a better place 170 years later? I mean its not like African countries are having incoming immigration problems. Look at a light map of Africa on google.... Africa looks like the water its so dark (NO PUN INTENDED)

Yes!! Send them back for a month and about they come running back to work the Burger King drive thru

 

[Acebb]

Black people are socialized from birth that race is everything. That race impacts every part of their life and is in essence a handicap (this is done to mask a lot of the pathologies in the black community).

So things like this are a logical outcome.

 

[fletchisrhsm]

Yes!! Send them back for a month and about they come running back to work the Burger King drive thru

h

Tried that once. Liberia was flooded with freed slaves and all they did was enslave the people not allowing them to vote. the thought of paying fast food workers more than minimum wage is hilarious. I seen a girl filing her nails at a Steak n shake window here two weeks ago and i told her "thats fucking gross". She told me "fuck off cracker". Needless to say i rolled out.

 

[Pulledclear]

Yeah... Give them more free stuff I'm sure it will help. Lots of luck.

 

[HugeUnderdog]

Hey man, if y'all were in the group of the have nots you'd be beggin' for free shit too... lol

 

[thecentaur]

Future UW headlines:

Rape incidents increase 500% since 2017 at U of Wisconsin

and

Student body President demands campus security do something about epidemic of on campus theft

and

Wisconsin Professor fired after making hurtful comments about slavery during class

 

[Mr_Mark]

Anyone still alive who was a slave (or their parents were a slave) should receive the free education! case closed.

 

[Pulledclear]

Nature vs Nurture. Nature ALWAYS wins.

 

[HugeUnderdog]

Future UW headlines:

Rape incidents increase 500% since 2017 at U of Wisconsin

and

Student body President demands campus security do something about epidemic of on campus theft

and

Wisconsin Professor fired after making hurtful comments about slavery during class

I don't think all white people are crazy junkies who go postal and shoot up schools. should all black people
be rapists and thieves? Man you seems to be a very small minded individual.. Unreal..

 

[buddyboy]

the boys down at the country club just added University of Wisconsin-Madison to their list of schools that automatically cause the rejection of a resume.

 

[thecentaur]

I don't think all white people are crazy junkies who go postal and shoot up schools. should all black people
be rapists and thieves? Man you seems to be a very small minded individual.. Unreal..

Oh I'm sure not all of them would be rapists and thieves. But why would u think fbi statistics and the results of multiple studies wouldn't apply here, especially when they r talking about bringing in former inmates? It's ur type of small minded short sighted illogical sanctimonious thinking that people are getting really sick of.

 

[Pulledclear]

Nature vs nurture. Nature always wins.

 

[ML Dog]

Marcus Garvey established the Black Star Steamship Line in 1919 to encourage Black Folks to go Back to Africa. Shares of the Black Star Line were sold to supporters of this idea, and three months after the company was incorporated, Garvey bought the first of three ships, which were to sail under the command of a black captain with an all-black crew.

But the Black Star Line turned out to be a disastrous business venture and closed down in 1922.

Although it did not accomplish anything whatsoever, past paving an avenue via which Garvey could Embezzle some Dough, the steamship company was a potent symbol for the masses of dispossessed black men and women who had invested their money, hope, and pride in it.

Only have their Dreams shattered. "All about those Benjamins" though, true even in 1919-1922 and Garvey just Pimpin', doin' dat which a Pimp do.


By No Means saying here that Marcus Garvey's Intentions were Bad, from The Jump Off. Total Opposite was true, and is the point of this post:

Welcome mat to the Roaring 20's 1919 when Garvey tried this was a BILLION times harder than would be TODAY for a similarly intelligent Black Man to Garvey who also did genuinely care about "His People".

Charasmatic and Caring Messianic Black Leader could pull off a Back to Africa Movement today, IMO:

Corporate Funding, US Gov $$$, Churches slapped around forced to kick in.

This is a Different World. A Back To Africa Movement could definitely work now and is a conversation that should be being had cuz if Folks is Not Happy here if Folks is so desperately unhappy and Folks Be OPPRESSED here why is a suggestion that Folks GTFO of that place theyz so Miserable such a Blasphemous suggestion of Solution?

Effin. Ridiculous. Obvious Solution. "A Man who willingly Remains in a place he is being so Opressed, So Trod Upon is not a Man at all."

Black America needs a MAN. To Step Up.

A Man who sees Value in a Solution to The Problem rather than a plan that is to just Continue to Blame The White Devil for all that man's people's ills.

Where ya AT Jesse Williams? Ya Talk The Talk, Homeboy. Oreo THIN Motherf%$#er

Where Ya at? Jesse?

Do This. Get Your People to a spot on Earth where they can Be Happy, and Live Free


of the awful Oppression of The White Devil

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"Oh! ye of little faith!!! The Eternal has happened. The Negro incorporated a steamship enterprise by the name of the Black Star Line; he placed $500,000 of common stock on the market at $5 a share, and in ten weeks he sold so many shares to his own people that he was able on the 31st of October to take over the first steamship ever owned by the race in modern times." Marcus Garvey, "Negroes of the World, The Eternal Has Happened," editorial in The Negro World, December 6, 1919

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