Disadvantages of hispanics

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2020.08.07 23:37 ZombieLord1 Hispanics United: A welcoming and inclusive community created for and by Hispanics

A community that celebrates Hispanic culture across all walks of life
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2013.08.08 23:31 AlecJasperKilton Bilingual Problems

Bilingual spin on /firstworldproblems. The disadvantages of being bilingual.
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2024.05.19 18:40 Interesting-Ad2932 2025 App Review/ School List Review

State of Residence: Florida
Undergraduate: Top 10 school, Molecular and Cell Biology major + Environmental Science minor
Cumulative GPA: 3.56
Science GPA: 3.50
MCAT: 511 (128,127,128,128)
URM: Hispanic, female, low-income, first-generation medical student
Research:
~1270 hours over 3 years
Worked on my own molecular biology project and presented a poster on it
Clinical Experience:
CNA for a over a year- 250 hours
Worked in the surgical supply unit at a Top 5 US hospital- 104 hours
Shadowing:
154 hours across 4 different specialties (cardiology, gastroenterology, dermatology, pediatric infectious diseases)
Volunteer:
NICU (clinical) - 84 hours
Sorting and packing medical supplies to send to other countries (clinical)- 31 hours
Tutoring disadvantaged adults on speaking, reading, and writing in English (nonclinical) - 78 hours
Extracurriculars:
Sports Club President- ~300 hours
Sorority: Philanthropy focuses on women’s cardiac health, held a board position- 564 hours
Sports lessons- 80 hours
Playing guitar as a hobby- 192 hours
School List so far: UF, USF, UCF, FAU, Nova, FSU, FIU, Pitt, UM, Emory, Brown, BU, Tufts, Drexel, George Washington, Tulane, UVM, Penn State, Rosalind Franklin, Temple
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2024.05.16 23:33 Interesting-Ad2932 App Review for 2025 Cycle

I’m trying to refine my school list to maximize my chances of getting in. I’m applying to all the Florida schools, particularly interested in UMiami. I'm wondering which oos schools I should apply to. I don’t need to go a top 20 med school, I just want to go to a med school :) State of Residence: Florida
Undergraduate: Top 10 school, Molecular and Cell Biology major + Environmental Science minor
Cumulative GPA: 3.56
Science GPA: 3.50
MCAT: 511
URM: Hispanic, female, low-income, first-generation medical student
Research:
~1270 hours over 3 years
Worked on my own molecular biology project and presented a poster on it
Clinical Experience:
CNA for a over a year- 250 hours
Worked in the surgical supply unit at a Top 5 US hospital- 104 hours
Shadowing:
154 hours across 4 different specialties (cardiology, gastroenterology, dermatology, pediatric infectious diseases)
Volunteer:
NICU (clinical) - 84 hours
Sorting and packing medical supplies to send to other countries (clinical)- 31 hours
Tutoring disadvantaged adults on speaking, reading, and writing in English (nonclinical) - 78 hours
Extracurriculars:
Sports Club President- ~300 hours
Sorority: Philanthropy focuses on women’s cardiac health, held a board position- 564 hours
Sports lessons- 80 hours
Playing guitar as a hobby- 192 hours
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2024.04.23 11:56 healthmedicinet Health Daily News April 22 2024

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2024.03.29 16:01 readingitnowagain Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Senator Raphael Warnock Architects of President Biden's $10k 1st Time Homeowners Downpayment Tax Credit Promise

https://homebuyer.com/learn/25000-first-time-home-buyer-downpayment-grant
Written by Dan Green Published: March 25, 2024
What is The $25,000 Downpayment Toward Equity Act? [Explained]
First-time home buyers may be eligible to receive a $25,000 cash grant to purchase a new home.
The first-time buyer program, called The Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2023, fulfills a Biden Administration campaign promise: To give Americans down payment assistance for purchasing quality housing.
First introduced as the Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2021, the bill expired in the last congressional session. Then, in early-2023, after President Biden’s 2024 budget proposal earmarked $100 billion for a homebuyer cash grant program, the first-time buyer bill was reborn.
On June 21, 2023, elected officials re-introduced the $25,000 cash grant for home buyers bill as H.R. 4231: The Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2023. The bill was later name-checked in the 2024 State of the Union address.
The Downpayment Toward Equity Act aims “to provide downpayment assistance to first-generation homebuyers to address multigenerational inequities in access to homeownership and to narrow and ultimately close the racial homeownership gap in the United States, and for other purposes.”
In plain language, the government wants to help close racial wealth and homeownership gaps by giving first-time, first-generation homebuyers cash grants.
This article simplifies the Downpayment Toward Equity Act to show which first-time buyers qualify, how to get your cash grant, and when to expect the bill to be passed into law.
First-Time Home Buyer? Ask About This $25,000 Cash Grant. TABLE OF CONTENTS
→ What Is The Program’s Current Status? → What is the Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2023? → Why Is This $25,000 Grant Important for First-Time Home Buyers? → Who Is Eligible For The Downpayment Toward Equity Act? → How Does the Downpayment Toward Equity Act Work? → If You Move Within 5 Years, You’ll Pay Some Money Back → How To Receive Your $25,000 Down Payment Grant → Will the Downpayment Towards Equity Act Become Law? → Questions First-Time Buyers Ask About The $25,000 First-Time Home Buyer Grant
What Is The Program’s Current Status?
As of March 29, 2024, the $25,000 first-time home buyer grant program is a bill with the 2023-2024 Congress. The bill replaces the Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2021 (H.R. 4495) bill, which expired at the end of the last congressional session.
Home buyers are unable to claim the bill’s $25,000 grant because the bill is not law.
Rep. Maxine Waters authored the former and current versions of The Downpayment Toward Equity Act in the House of Representatives. Senator Raphael Warnock authored the bill’s Senate version in the last Congress.
Senator Warnock has yet to re-introduce the bill for the Senate.
The Downpayment Toward Equity Act timeline is as follows:
July 17, 2021: H.R. 4495 introduced as Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2021 September 30, 2021: S. 2920 introduced as Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2021 February 10, 2022: Hearings held in Senate June 22, 2022: Hearings held in Senate March 9, 2023: White House budget allocates $175 billion for affordable housing programs, including $10 billion for cash grants for first-time home buyers June 21, 2023: H.R. 4231 introduced as Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2023 July 6, 2023: 31 members of the House of Representatives co-sponsor the bill September 14, 2023: 4 additional members of the House of Representatives co-sponsor the bill
Home buyers cannot claim Downpayment Toward Equity grant money until the bill passes into law.
What is the Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2023?
The Downpayment Toward Equity Act provides eligible first-time home buyers up to $25,000 cash for down payment on a home, closing costs on a mortgage, interest rate reductions via discount points, and other home purchase expenses.
As of March 29, 2024, the program requires that home buyers:
Be a first-time home buyer Earn a low- or moderate income consistent for their area Buy a home that will be a primary residence Use a government-backed mortgage Be a first-generation home buyer, have parents or legal guardians who defaulted on a home loan, or lived in foster care during their lifetime
The Downpayment Toward Equity Act may not be used to purchase a second home or rental property, and all home buyers within the household must meet the program’s eligibility requirements.
Get pre-approved to see if you qualify. Why Is This $25,000 Grant Important for First-Time Home Buyers?
The Downpayment Toward Equity Act is built so first-time home buyers can purchase homes, grow roots, and increase their household wealth.
The Downpayment Toward Equity Act also reduces racial disparity.
Real estate holds $21 trillion in value, making home equity the largest wealth source in the United States.
Today, homeowners are overwhelmingly white. The homeownership gap between white and Hispanic households is currently 25 percentage points, and the difference between white and black households is currently 30 percentage points.
The Downpayment Toward Equity Act levels the playing field for disadvantaged groups. It’s the most powerful piece of housing legislation since 1968’s Fair Housing Act and Housing & Urban Development Act.
The program makes homes more affordable to disadvantaged buyers and incentivizes long-term homeownership.
Who Is Eligible For The Downpayment Toward Equity Act?
The Downpayment Toward Equity Act is not yet law, so when we discuss the bill’s eligibility requirements, we must add a caveat that the bill’s language is not final and may change before passage into law.
As of March 29, 2024, the Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2023 requires that home buyers meet the following requirements: Must be a first-time home buyer
Eligible home buyers must not have owned a home or co-signed on a mortgage loan within the last thirty-six months. Renters who owned homes more than three years ago qualify as first-time home buyers. Must be a first-generation home buyer or have lived in foster care
Eligible home buyers’ parents or legal guardians may not have owned a home during the 36 months prior to purchase. This requirement is waived for all home buyers who previously lived in foster care. Must earn moderate income or lower
Eligible home buyers must earn an income that’s no more than 20 percent over the median income for a metropolitan area. For example, in Orlando, Florida, where the median income is $80,100, home buyers must earn $96,120 per year or less to claim their cash down payment grant.
Income exceptions are made in high-cost areas, such as New York, Los Angeles, and other cities where the cost of living is high.
In high-cost areas, eligible home buyers must earn an income that’s no more than 80 percent above the area median income. In San Francisco, the 2023 area median income is near $166,600. Therefore, to get access to the government’s $25,000 cash grant, home buyers must earn $299,880 annually or less.
Must use a mortgage backed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, VA, or USDA
Eligible home buyers must use a mortgage backed by one of the five government mortgage agencies – Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, VA, and USDA. These entities allow for no down payment (USDA and VA), 3 percent down payment (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), and 3.5 percent down payment (FHA).
Jumbo mortgages are ineligible for the program, along with other non-qualifying mortgage loans. Must complete an online or in-person homeownership class
The Downpayment Toward Equity Act requires home buyers to complete a government-approved homeownership education course. Courses can be completed in 90 minutes and are proven to reduce mortgage default rates. How Does the Downpayment Toward Equity Act Work?
The Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2023 is a cash grant for first-time home buyers. It’s neither a loan nor a tax credit. It’s a cash payment made to eligible buyers at closing to be directly applied to the purchase transaction.
The standard cash award for first-time home buyers is twenty-thousand dollars, and an additional five thousand dollars is available to “socially disadvantaged individuals.”
According to the bill, a socially disadvantaged individual is anyone who identifies as Black, Hispanic, Asian American, Native American, or any combination thereof, or who has been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias because of their identity as a member of a group without regard to their individual qualities.
Eligible home buyers can use the money for anything purchase-related.
For example, your $25,000 cash grant can be split into a down payment, a lump sum for closing costs, and cash to buy down your mortgage interest rate.
$20,000 to make a down payment on your home $3,000 for your real estate and title closing costs $2,000 to buy mortgage discount points
You can also use the first-time buyer cash grant to make accessibility renovations to your home.
If You Move Within 5 Years, You’ll Pay Some Money Back
The Downpayment Toward Equity Act promotes a long-term view of homeownership.
The bill requires homeowners to live in their homes for five years. Buyers who change residence or sell within 60 months forfeit a portion of their initial cash grant.
Sell or move within Year 1: Repay 100% or $25,000 Sell or move within Year 2: Repay 80% or $20,000 Sell or move within Year 3: Repay 60% or $15,000 Sell or move within Year 4: Repay 40% or $10,000 Sell or move within Year 5: Repay 20% or $5,000
There are exceptions to the repayment rule for military deployment and other hardship circumstances. Your mortgage lender can explain your options. How To Receive Your $25,000 Down Payment Grant
When the Downpayment Toward Equity Act passes into law, cash grants will be automatic payments sent to your settlement or escrow. Your mortgage lender will facilitate the grant and complete your necessary forms.
Your cash grant will be waiting for you on your closing day.
However, if you need a cash grant today and can’t wait for the Downpayment Toward Equity Act bill Ito pass into law, consider other down payment assistance programs for first-time buyers, including local tax incentives and low-rate, low-down-payment mortgages.
Will the Downpayment Towards Equity Act Become Law?
The Downpayment Toward Equity Act is unlikely to pass into law before the late-2024 because getting cash grants to home buyers requires multiple government agencies to coordinate, and the congressional budget isn’t passed into law.
Once it’s passed, Congress must make the rules by which the federal government distributes grants to states and how the states distribute money to local title companies. Those rules are required before the first cash grant can be made.
The bill also requires rules for privacy protection and reporting.
Representative Maxine Walters introduced The Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2023 on June 21, 2023, as H.R. 4231. There is no corresponding bill in the Senate yet.
Questions First-Time Buyers Ask About The $25,000 First-Time Home Buyer Grant
Since publishing the article’s first version in 2021, Homebuyer.com readers have asked a lot of questions about the Downpayment Toward Equity Act. Here are some of the common ones.
What changed with the Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2023 from the Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2021?
The 2023 version of the Downpayment Toward Equity Act simplifies the definitions of first-time home buyer and first-generation home buyer, and proposes a need-based allocation of cash grants to states. Beyond that, the current and former version of the bill are mostly the same. Is the $25,000 First-Time Home Buyer Grant the same thing as the $10,000 Biden First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit?
No. The $10,000 Biden First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit is a mortgage relief credit that gives first-time home buyers a $10,000 tax credit from the IRS.
Is the Downpayment Toward Equity Act different from the American Dream Downpayment Act?
Yes. The American Dream Downpayment Act is a program that sets up tax-advantaged savings accounts to use towards down payment costs. Is the $25,000 Home Buyer Grant passed?
No, the $25,000 first-time home buyer grant program is not passed into law. Homebuyer.com expects the bill will pass in some form before the end of 2023. It will not be passed retroactively. To get updates on the bill when it passes, get a mortgage pre-approval started. How do I apply for the $25,000 Home Buyer Grant?
You won’t need to apply when the $25,000 Downpayment Towards Equity Act passes. Your mortgage lender will use the information in your loan application to file your request and activate your disbursement. The grant will await you at your closing. How do I know if I earn too much for the Downpayment Toward Equity Act?
To determine whether your household income is within tolerance for the Downpayment Toward Equity Act, use this government lookup for your area and multiply the result by 1.2. If your income is at or below that figure, you may be eligible for $25,000. If I have to move for work during the first five years, do I have to repay the $25,000 grant?
Yes, if you move or sell your home within five years of using the program, you’re required to pay back at least some of your grant. Your employer may reimburse you as part of your moving expense. If I’m a first-time home buyer, my fiancee is not a first-time home buyer. Can we use the $25,000 First-Time Home Buyer Grant?
No, to use the $25,000 First-Time Home Buyer Grant, all home buyers must be first-time buyers who meet the program’s eligibility standards.
Are there restrictions on how I use my first-time home buyer grant money?
Yes, you may use grant funds for a down payment on a home, paying closing costs, reducing your mortgage interest rate, and other home purchase-related expenses. Will the $25,000 Downpayment Toward Equity Act pass into law before The HELPER Act?
The HELPER Act, for which the official title is “Homes for Every Local Protector, Educator, and Responder Act”, is a no-money-down, no mortgage insurance program for teachers, law enforcement officials, and firefighters. We expect the HELPER Act to pass into law as early as mid-2024. Can I combine the $25,000 Downpayment Toward Equity Act with other first-time home buyer bill?
Yes, eligible home buyers can stack the Downpayment Toward Equity Act with other available buyer programs including The HELPER Act mortgage, the $10,000 First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit, the DASH Act, and more. Who is the primary sponsor of the Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2023?
The primary sponsor of H.R. 4231 in the 118th Congress is Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA-43). Who are the Downpayment Toward Equity Act of 2023 co-sponsors?
As of March 29, 2024, there are 40 co-sponsors of H.R. 4231 in the 118th Congress. Representative Affiliation Sponsor Date Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]* 06/21/2023 Rep. Garcia, Sylvia R. [D-TX-29]* 06/21/2023 Rep. Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7]* 06/21/2023 Rep. Vargas, Juan [D-CA-52] 07/06/2023 Rep. Bonamici, Suzanne [D-OR-1] 07/06/2023 Rep. Cleaver, Emanuel [D-MO-5] 07/06/2023 Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4] 07/06/2023 Rep. McGovern, James P. [D-MA-2] 07/06/2023 Rep. Torres, Ritchie [D-NY-15] 07/06/2023 Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2] 07/06/2023 Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-5] 07/06/2023 Rep. Williams, Nikema [D-GA-5] 07/06/2023 Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8] 07/06/2023 Rep. Kamlager-Dove, Sydney [D-CA-37] 07/06/2023 Rep. Tlaib, Rashida [D-MI-12] 07/06/2023 Rep. Carbajal, Salud O. [D-CA-24] 07/06/2023 Rep. Beatty, Joyce [D-OH-3] 07/06/2023 Rep. Johnson, Henry C. “Hank,” Jr. [D-GA-4] 07/06/2023 Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9] 07/06/2023 Rep. Meng, Grace [D-NY-6] 07/06/2023 Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] 07/06/2023 Rep. McGarvey, Morgan [D-KY-3] 07/06/2023 Rep. Pettersen, Brittany [D-CO-7] 07/06/2023 Rep. Gomez, Jimmy [D-CA-34] 07/06/2023 Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4] 07/06/2023 Rep. Scanlon, Mary Gay [D-PA-5] 07/06/2023 Rep. Crockett, Jasmine [D-TX-30] 07/06/2023 Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-30] 07/06/2023 Rep. Jackson, Jonathan L. [D-IL-1] 07/06/2023 Rep. Omar, Ilhan [D-MN-5] 07/06/2023 Rep. Nickel, Wiley [D-NC-13] 07/06/2023 Rep. Pelosi, Nancy [D-CA-11] 09/14/2023 Rep. Levin, Mike [D-CA-49] 09/14/2023 Rep. Jacobs, Sara [D-CA-51] 09/14/2023 Rep. Hayes, Jahana [D-CT-5] 09/14/2023 Rep. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ-3] 01/03/2024 Rep. Evans, Dwight [D-PA-3] 01/03/2024 Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-36] 01/03/2024 Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-12] 01/03/2024 Rep. Ramirez, Delia C. [D-IL-3] 01/03/2024 Which national housing organizations support the Downpayment Toward Equity Act as stakeholders?
According to the bill fact sheet, stakeholder support for the Downpayment Toward Equity Act includes the following national housing organizations. National Housing Organization Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund Asian Real Estate Association of America Center for Responsible Lending Council of State Community Development Agencies Habitat for Humanity International Local Initiatives Support Corporation Mortgage Bankers Association National ADAPT National Association of Realtors National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD) National Coalition for the Homeless National Community Reinvestment Coalition National Community Stabilization Trust National Consumer Law Center (on behalf of its low-income clients) National Council of State Housing Agencies National Fair Housing Alliance National Housing Conference National Housing Law Project National Housing Resource Center National NeighborWorks Association National Rural Housing Coalition National Urban League NFCC – National Foundation for Credit Counseling PolicyLink Prosperity Now ROC USA The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights UnidosUS Veterans Association of Real Estate Professionals Which state and regional housing organizations support the Downpayment Toward Equity Act as stakeholders?
According to the bill fact sheet, stakeholder support for the Downpayment Toward Equity Act includes the following state and regional housing organizations: State and Regional Housing Organizations California Reinvestment Coalition Community Development Network of MD Housing Action Illinois Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Massachusetts Fair Housing Center, Inc. Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County OnTrack WNC Reinvestment Partners Southern California Association of Nonprofit Housing Which local housing organizations support the Downpayment Toward Equity Act as stakeholders?
According to the bill fact sheet, stakeholder support for the Downpayment Toward Equity Act includes the following local housing organizations and initiatives: Local Housing Organizations Center for Community Progress Center for NYC Neighborhoods Center for Responsible Lending Community Coalition Community Housing Development Corporation Covenant Faith Outreach Ministries / Covenant CDC EK Sattler Associates Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California Grounded Solutions Network GS Community Ventures HPP CARES CDE HomeFree-USA HomesFund Hudson County Housing Resource Center Lawrence CommunityWorks LeadingAge Lee County Housing Development Corp Liberation in a Generation Lifelines Counseling Services Long Island Housing Services, Inc. Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Marshall Housing Authority Piedmont Housing Alliance RESULTS ROC USA SouthFair Community Development Corp. Spanish Coalition for Housing (SCH) The Bronx Neighborhood Housing Services CDC Inc Ventura County Community Development Corporation WSRAR
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2024.03.28 07:53 ProfessionalGood187 [REQUEST]: WHAT'S MY IDEOLOGY

1. POLITICS AXIS (GOVERNMENT, LEADERSHIP, STRUCTURE DISTRIBUTION, COMPOSITION, AND AUTHORITY)

- The type of government should be rule by the one person, one family, one bloodline, one dynasty, and one clan only that this one ruling family-one bloodline-one dynasty-one clan government should be possessing an extreme power, total absolute authority, extreme militant strenght, extreme wealth, extreme treasure, extreme influence, and divinely manifestation over the state
- the succession of the leader should be in hereditary, passing throughtout generation to the next generation in one leading family in our country
- our country's official full name should start in "Great Empire of Great Empires", then our name of our country
- the leader should wear the crown, regalia, globus cruciger, sceptre, diadem, ring, sword, rosary, crucifix cross, sash, shoulder insignia, and collar insignia to show and display the legitimacy, total authority, wealth, power, influence, strenght, and divinity over the state
- The leader should be a strongman and total absolute dictator over the state and the leader is both combined syncretic head of state and head of the government
- The title of the leader should be Great Emperor of Great Emperors (Male Leader), Great Empress of Great Empresses (Female Leader), Crowned Prince (Male heir leader), and Crowned Princess (Female Heir Leader)
- I strongly support the cult of personality, because the Great Emperor of Great Emperors, Great Empress of Great Empress, Crowned Prince, and Crowned princess is refers to the " Great Divine Catholic Monarch" that possessing the divine miracle powers that granted by god to legitimize the rule, reign, power, wealth, treasure, influence, extreme strenght, government, and legitimacy and automatically cannonized as saints of catholic church
- we should enforce the decentralized lossed confederate empire like in holy roman empire to grant the greater high degree of autonomy to all of empires, ethnic ethnarchies, tribal tribarchy, ceasardoms, kingdoms, monarchies, chiefdoms, chieftaincies, grand principalities, and principalities to prevent separatism and they have a right to operate these administrative divisions independently without the intervention of imperial central crown government to avoid separatism and i strongly hate and i strongly condemn separatism because separatism destroys our mighty powerful empire
- The party system should be only one and only one party state that named "National Imperial Crowned Party" and the other political parties than national imperial crowned party and opposition parties should be ban
- The representatives only should be the regalia crown throne leadership caste peoples only
- The elections should be in show elections and the contestants in the elections is the regalia crown throne leadership caste peoples only from the different factions of national imperial crown party but their ideologies and their platforms should be same
- The Great Emperor of Great Emperors, Great Empress of Great Empresses, Crowned Prince, and Crowned Princess should hold an 100% Total Absolute Power authority control over the state

2. CIVIL AXIS (SECURITY, LAW, JUSTICE, TRIAL, PUNISHMENT, AND MONITORING)

- The police should held the political power to enforce its laws
- The courts, justices, magistrates, judges, lawyers, fiscals, prosecutors, and persecutors should have an political power to function our judicial system
- The martial law should be declare because the crime rates, terrorism, and corruptions are very high and the martial law is 100% helpful to decrease the crime rates, terrorism, and corruptions in government
- I support the mob justice, street justice, vigilante justice, kangaroo courts, and public shamming trials becuase the accused and the criminal suspect should be humilate in front of public
- The criminals, murderers, hijackers, rapists, pedophiles, drug lords, corrupt governments, smugglers, hoarders, thieves, heretics, schismatics, infidels, apostates, terrorists, homosexuals, dissidents, rebels, and traitors should be punish by the death penalty in front of public and the death penalty method should be burn at the stake and the death penalty should held in execution plaza square and should be broadcast live in television, radio, internet, social media, screen billboards, and in speaker sound systems
- I strongly advocate the mass surveillance program that CCTV cameras, Automatic Picture caption cameras, trackers, sound recorder microphones, and surveillance systems should be deploy in the streets to monitor the country

3. MILITARY AXIS (MILITARY COMMAND, MILITARY PERSONNEL SIZE, AND EQUIPMENT)

- The military should have an political power like in myanmar, south korea in 1961 to 1988, and pinochet's chile
- I strongly support the warlordism because the military generals should have an political power over civilians
- We should implement the mandatory military service in all of 100% of the population and all of men, women, infants, toddlers, kids, children, tweens, adolescence, teen, youth, young, young adult, adult, mid life age, senior citizens, pwds, pregnant women, and all of sectors of society should join mandatory in the military service
- The military equipment should be upgrade into advanced, strong, nuclearized, and AI robotic military equipments such as tanks, fighting jets, missiles, bombs, guns, warships, warboats, and other military equipments
- we should use the military forces in our defense, law enforcement, politics, religion, economy, traffic enforcement, and other aspects of life

4. DIPLOMACY AXIS (NATION, FOREIGN, GEOPOLITICS, IMMIGRATION, AND BORDER)

- I have an strong love, devotion, and extreme fanaticism in my own country, the philippines because iam 100% proud to be a filipino because iam born here in the philippines and iam filipino in blood and my citizenship and iam always ready to defend my country in the violent and destructive forms of war against the other countries that has a threat to the philippines
- the filipino people is the no.1 best people in the world
- we should recover the lost territories of the philippines such as sabah, spratly island, west philippine sea, miangas island/las palmas island, palau, guam, northern marianas island, taiwan, malaysia, indonesia, singapore, brunei, and papua new guinea as part of "Greater Philippines"
- i will declare the destrutive bloody violent deadly barbaric terroristic war against china to recover the west philippine sea and i urge the filipino people to commit the war crimes against china to recover the west philippine sea and i will glorify the war crimes that commit by the filipino people against china to recover the west philippine sea and i urge the filipino people to commit terrorism in china to recover the west philippine sea
- genocide all of the 100 million chinese communist party members including the xi jinping and his family of xi jinping to recover the west philippine sea
- we should expand and enlarge the territory size of the philippines
- the philippines should establish the colonies, vassals, and tributary countries abroad
- the philippines has a right to conquer the whole 7 continents and 5 oceans of the world
- we should defend, recognize, and legitimize the souvereignty of the philippines, because the philippines is souvereign country and the philippines only recognize as the souvereign state
- the united nations and other pan-global international organizations should be abolish because united nations is the worst pan-global international organization in the world because united nations and other pan-global international organizations are evil, satanic, freemasonry, and anti-christian organizations in the world
- we should never again to the membership of other pan-global international organizations
- the member nations of association of southeast asian nations should be unite under the one banner of southeast asia
- the immigration of foreign nationals in the philippines as non-tourist immigrant foreign nationals should be more stricter than its now to prevent crimes, terrorism, and illegal immigration of foreign nationals in the philippines
- only the extremely talented foreign nationals, the foreign nationals that have an clear, legal, and good moral record, the foreign nationals that their religion is christianity, and the foreign tourists only to allowed to enter the philippines
- the refugees should be chased out and expell in all of territories of the philippines
- we should build the strong fortified demilitarized great border walls like in great wall of china, korean demilitarized zone, and us-mexican border to prevent illegal immigration, smuggling, crimes, terrorism, and invasion to the philippines
- we should patrol the international borders of the philippines

5. ECONOMY AXIS (ECONOMIC SYSTEM, ECONOMIC COORDINATION, PROPERTY OWNERSHIP, EMPLOYMENT, INCENTIVES, TRADE, PRODUCTION, COMPETITION, FINANCE, MONETARY, AND WELFARE)

- the businesses, owners, managers, labors, cooperatives, professions, jobs, and economic sectors should be unite and should be join in Corporation Body Union
- i strongly condemn communism, socialism, democratic socialism, social democracy, capitalism, neoliberalism, cronyism, and independent privatized monopoly corporatocracy because it is exploitive and unjust that destroys the lives of the people and destroys the businesses of their competitors
- we should set the 5 to 10 year economic plans to ensure the stability of the country
- the state has a best to know to run the economy and the management of the economy should be the state
- the imperial crown monarchy should own, control, manage, and possess the 80% of the economy
- the monarchy should have an command the compass of the economy to ensure the economic prosperity
- i respect the private property rights and the private property rights should be protect
- i strongly support the land reform programs to ensure that citizens has a private property rights and the private property rights of the citizens should be protect
- I respect the private property rights of the landholders, landowners, and hacienderos and the landowners, landholders, and hacienderos should have an political power to represent their right to own their property
- The lost state owned enterprises that becomes privatized should be renationalize again and should be recover it as a state owned enterprises
- we should create more state owned enterprises
- we should establish the crown owned enterprises that owned by the monarchy
- we should go towards post-work economy and we should promote the self employed economy, informal economy, enterpreneural economy, and non-traditional employment economy and the hobbies, habbits, recreational activities, and leisure activities should be convert into employment to prevent unemployment
- The minimum wage should be abolish because minimum wage is failure and it is failed to lift out to the poverty
- we should introduce the dividend income because the dividend income has more larger and more effective than minimum wage and the profit of the enterprises should be equal to the divident income that reccieved by the owners, employers, bosses, managers, staffs, employees, workers, and laborers
- the profits should be based on what we produce the products
- we should self reliant in our agricultural products and we should buy only local produced agricultural products and we should protect our domestic industries and we should export our raw materials in the world and we should have the free trade in terms of luxury products and we should have an mass importation on second hand surplus products
- we should produce our products and we should consumme it and we must live in the luxurious lifestyle and we must invest our money to strenght the financial literacy in our country
- we should support the micro-small-medium enterprises to ensure the free and fair competition in the market
- we should create the multinational chartered megacorporations, because the multinational chartered megacorporations are more humane and more natural monopolies than independent multinational megacorporations
- the foreign direct investment should be open in 100% open foreign direct investment
- the usury should ban and the usury should criminalize because usury is the destroyer of the economy
- the central bank should be 100% government owned and dependent to the government
- restore the gold backed up currency because gold has much value than fiat paper money
- we should introduce the digital currency on smartphones and we should introduce the card currency (not credit card) because they are same as gold that has a absolute unlimited value than fiat papaer money
- we should print more polymer banknotes because polymer banknotes has an absolute unlimited value than fiat paper currency
- the fiat paper money should be abolish
- the inflation rate should be abolish because inflation rate is obstacle to the economy
- the national debt should be abolish because it destroys our economy
- we should introduce the universal basic income, basic guaranteed income, welfare programs, free necessities, and corporate welfare to almost 100% of the population
- the free universal healthcare should be establish to order to have an free and access to the free healthcare

6. SOCIETY AXIS (SOCIAL, HIERARCHY, CULTURE, DEMOGRAPHICS, RELIGION, MEDIA, FAMILY, GENDER, SEXUALITY, ETHNICITY, LANGUAGE, AND MORALITY)

- enlightenment should be reject because enlightenment is failure, enlightenment is disaster to the human race, and enlightenment should never happen because enlightenment destroys our modern and contemporary world
- reject modernity, embrace future, because modernity is outdated, modernity is primitive, modernity is spook, modernity is low tech, modernity is disaster to the human race, and modernity is immoral
- reject reason because reason is spook
- empiricism is spook, empiricism is creepy
- the nobles should have an political power in our country
- society has better years ago than its now
- i strongly support collectivism because we are the society and we are the country
- the persons of disabilities are deserves to have an human rights and protections than criminals and the criminals should no and never have an human rights
- the hierarchical state is the best
- we should establish the extreme strict highly rigid highly formalized hereditary ascribed caste system and we should divide our society into caste layer level ranks such as 1.) Regalia Crown Throne Leadership Caste; 2.) Throne Power Leadership Caste; 3.) Head Ones Caste; 4.) Ecclessiastical Church Caste; 5.) Nobility Caste; 6.) Representative Elected Council Caste; 7.) Wealth Treasure Caste, 8.) Warrior Caste; 9.) Bourgeoisie Caste; 10.) Famous Notable Popular Caste; 11.) Specialized Profession Caste; 12.) Occupation Livelihood Caste; 13.) Proletariat Caste; 14.) Technology Caste; 15.) Artificial Enhanced People Caste; 16.) Other Economy Caste; 17.) Gender Role Caste; 18.) Unproductive Caste; 19.) Commoner post-work citizen masses with absolute unlimited basic income caste; 20.) Mean Caste; 21.) Rat Race Caste; 22.) Domestic Caste; 23.) Freedom Caste; 24.) Treated Like A Personal Property Caste; 25.) Subjugated Machine Caste; 26.) Non-Technology Caste; 27.) Disadvantage Caste; 28.) Bad Damnation Caste
- the social mobility should be abolish and should be total ban
- i strongly condemn and i strongly hate and i have a strong phobia to the equality, egalitarianism, and equity because it creates chaos, civil disobedience and civil disorder to the country
- we should revive the ancient, archaic, antiquity, medieval, renaissance, and old cultures and we should transform them into rebirth and revived and vital ones to make our country and the world civilized and great again
- we should assimilate the white americans, native americans, europeans, slavics, turkics, middle eastern peoples, latinos, black americans, africans, white australians, and australian aborigines into filipino austronesian culture
- we should have an cultural exchange between indians, east asians, and indochinese peoples
- we should destroy the western anglo-zionist culture because the western anglo-zionist culture is new modernist enlightened immoral primitive barbaric uncivilized culture that never existed in thousand of years ago
- the accepted cultures in the world is orientalist culture of asians, europeans especially the hispanic roman greek culture, latinos, africans, and indigenous cultures because these cultures are standing for the thousands of the years
- the filipino culture and austronesian cultures is superior than other cultures
- we should declare the 40-1,000 child policy to boost the population and prevent the population decline
- the contraceptives, condoms, iuds, and sterlizations should declare illegal should be criminalize and should be ban totally to avoid ageing population and population decline
- the population pyramid should be the youthful population that contains 50% of the population are in ages 0-14, 48% are in ages 15-64 and 2% of population are in 65 and over
- the population growth rate should be rise in 2,456.78% per year population growth rate and the population growth should be exploding growing population like a bombs
- we should increase the birth rate into 3,455,123.00 births per 1,000 population, increase the fertility rate into 800.90 children born per woman, decrease the death rate into 0.00010 deaths per 1,000 population, increase the life expectancy into 2,000.90 years, and decrease the infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate into absolute total zero to promote explosion of population groth like the bomb
- we should embrace, romanticize, and normalize the overpopulation because overpopulation is the best way to repopulate the nation
- the overpopulation alarm are hoax because overpopulation is hoax, myth, fake, and false
- we are overdensity of the population and the over density/extreme density of the population should have an solution
- The catholic theocracy should be the form of government because iam devout roman catholic and the catholicism should be the state religion because the catholicism is the real religion
- The roman catholic church, eastern orthodox church, oriental orthodox church, and coptic church should be reunite again and must re-establish the "Great Catholic Christian Church" again
- the non-catholic religions such as protestantism, islam, hinduism, buddhism, atheism, judaism, satanism, and other non-catholic religions should be ban, persecute, destroy, genocide, and abolish because they are heretic, schismatics, infidels, and heathens
- i strongly support the sacerdotalism and sacerdotal state because the ecclessiastical church is most powerful people in representative elected advisory court caste peoples in the world
- the propaganda should be establish and we must deploy the propaganda posters and propaganda flyers in the streets, in the billboards, in the screen billboards, in advertisements, in television, in radio, in internet, and in social media
- The media should be the state media and we should establish the government owned media, government owned television station, government owned radio station, government owned newspaper, government owned broadcasting, government owned newsagency, government owned internet browser platform, and government owned social media platform
- we must strongly promote censorship and all of the inappropriate content on television, radio, news, internet, social media, advertisements, and propaganda
- the press should be extremely tightly control by the crown monarchy
- the type of the family structure should be in the clan multigenerational immediate extended family and living in one compound unit territory and one compound unit land
- the family of choice, single families, familylessness, and nuclear family should be abolish and reject
- the men and women should have an equal opportunity in terms of employment, voting, conscription, property, religion, law, politics, travel, and diplomacy
- we should preserve the strict traditional gender roles in terms of facial expression, movements, body shapes, body size, weight, reproductive organs, organ systems, voice, clothing, fashion, style, linguistic register styles, and hair styles
- sex outside of marriage should be ban and the punishment for sex outside of marriage is marriage by the state
- the homosexuality and same sex marriage should be totally ban because homosexuality and same sex marriage are the sodomy and sodomic acts
- i strongly support the diverse multinational and multiethnic nation state because my country is diverse ethnic country
- the austronesian race and the brown race is superior race
- i strongly condemn the genocide of other ethnic groups
- we should create the artificial ethnic groups and artificial races to order to make the world more diverse in terms of ethnicity groups and race groups
- the tagalog language and philippine accent english should be the universal language
- the baybayin alibata alphabet should be revive and restore and just add new character letters that translated as c, f, j, q, v, x, and z
- the baybayin alibata alphabet and latin alphabet should be the universal writing systems and should be tandem in terms of translation of the languages and other writing systems
- i also recognize the cyrilic, greek, chinese characters, devanagari, bengali-assamese, burmese, hangul, hiragana-katakana-kana, perso-arabic, hebrew, thai, burmese, khmer, javanese, sundanese, and other writing systems as official writing systems
- i strongly hate abortion because abortion is mortal sin and god hates abortions
- i strongly hate divorce because divorce is mortal sin and god hates divorce
- i strongly hate euthanasia because euthanasia is mortal sin and god hates euthanasia
- i strongly hate drugs because drugs is mortal sin and god hates drugs
- we should declare the total and bloody war on drugs against drug lords and the drug addicts should confine in hospital and rehabilitate them
- the obscenity should be ban totally especially the malicious obscenity
- the profanity should be ban totally

7. DEVELOPMENT AXIS (INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORTATION, TECHNOLOGY, SETTLEMENTS, AND ECOLOGY)

- we should build the infrastructure projects and we should build more megastructures in the world
- we should expand and build more roadway networks, railway networks, walkway networks, waterway networks, and cyclingway networks especially the long distance expressways, long distance railway networks, long distance canals, long distance walkways, and long distance cyclingways
- we should introduce the nuclear energy, renewable energy, dark matter energy, microwave energy, fission energy, fusion energy, internet powered energy, tesla powered energy, unlimited energy, and wireless energy and we should build and build more nuclear power plants, renewable power plants, dark matter power plants, microwave power plants, fission power plants, fusion power plants, internet power plants, tesla power plants, unlimited power plants, and wireless power plants to continue the power and energy supply
- we should build smart grids to promote electricity supply
- we should abolish the coal energy, gas energy, fuel energy, and fossil fuel energy because it is dirty, polluted, and outdated and we should demolish and decommission the useless coal powerplants, useless gas power plants, useless fuel plants, and useless fossil fuel plants
- we should build more dams to provide water supply, irrigation, flood control, electricity, recreation activity, tourism, and livelihhood to the people
- the ownership of private transportation such cars, van, motorcycle, truck, flying cars, private jet, private boat, private ship, and private space ships should be compulsory mandatory in households
- the public transportation should be still valued and should introduce, establish, and build more public transportation and its facilities
- the landports, waterports (seaports, riverports, lakeports, and harbors), railports, airports, spaceports, pedestrianports, and cyclingports should be establish and build more
- we should introduce and establish the bullet train high speed railway networks
- we should abandon and abolish the diesel trains, locomotive trains, gas trains, and steam trains because it is outdated and polluted
- we should introduce and establish the vactrains and hyperloop trains
- we should embrace, romaticize, and normalize the traffic congestion because it is part of technological advancement and economic growth
- we should introduce, establish, and build more mrt metro rapi transits, subways, light rapid transits, trams, bus rapid transits, monorails, and personal rapid transit in short distance areas
- we should upgrade our transportation vechicles such as land vechicles, water vechicles, air vechicles, and space vechicles into futuristic one
- we should introduce and establish the level 5 automated autonomous self driving vechicles and we must abolish the steering wheels in the driver seats
- the technology and industry is gift from god and the technology and industry is granted by the god and we should appreciate it
- we should invent, introduce, establish, and develop the robots, robotics, artificial general intelligence,artificial intelligence, smart machines, and technological singularity
- we should embrace, romanticize, and normalize technological unemployment and ai takeover because it is part of technological advancement
- we should automate the industries totally and the idea of manual labor, repititive tasks, and menial work should be abolish
- the robots, cyber systems, machines, and computers should have an political power and influence over the populace
- the ownership of gadgets such as smart cellphones, telephones, tablets, computers, laptops, and netbooks to all of individual populations should be compulsory mandatory in all of 100% of individual populations should have these gadgets
- the ownership of appliances such as flat screen smart television set, radio set, refrigirator, washing machine, electric stove, and microwave oven should be compulsory mandatory in all of households
- the gadgets should be in a super smart form of technology and these gadgets should be supersmart such as supersmart cellphone, supersmart telephone, supersmart tablet, supersmart computers, supersmart laptops, and supersmart netbooks
- the appliances should be in a supersmart form of technology and these appliances should be in supersmart form such as supersmart flatscreen television set, supersmart radio set, supersmart refrigirator, supersmart washing machine, supersmart electric stove, and supersmart microwave oven
- we should upgrade the celluar networks into 1 billion to 1 quintillion G celluar network
- we should build more cell sites and we must upgrade the internet speed into decillion absolute infinibytes per seconds
- we should upgrade the internal storage, sd card storage and memory storage into quattrodecilion absolute infinibytes to have a more spaces in internal storage, sd card stoarage, and memory storage of supersmart cellphone, supersmart telephone, supersmart tablet, supersmart computers, supersmart laptops, and supersmart netbooks
- we should embrace the genetic modifications, transhuman, cyborgs, and cybernetics because it is part of our country
- we should go towards post-industrial world and we must build factories that no chimneys and totally operated by the robots and the chinmeys should be demolish
- we should have renew the urban areas and we should build another new urban planning that in the center core of urban area contains church, plaza public square, park, school, university, palace, government buildings, marketplace, shopping malls, and supertall high rise skyscrapers on their background
- we should build the overtall high rise skyscrapers that has height of 50 to 100 kilometers high height of skyscrapers
- we should preserve the rural areas and the rural areas must transform into cybersmart rural area and we must build the rural skyscrapers that has height of 100 to 300 meters high rural skyscrapers
- we should embrace, romaticize, and normalize the slum buildings because it is part of urbanization experience and we must build the slum buildings that has height of 2 kilometers to 5 kilometers high
- the urban size should be expand more while the rural areas should be expand more the size of rural areas
- we should build the strong fortified great walls that inside of strong fortified great walls should contains urban areas, build up areas, co-urban areas, outskirt areas, suburban areas, exurban areas, semi-urban areas, peri-urban areas, urbral areas, urban-rural fringe areas, fringe areas, rural-urban fringe areas, rurban areas, peri-rural areas, semi-rural areas, exrural areas, subrural areas, in skirt areas, co-rural areas, build down areas, and rural areas
- we should transform the urban areas, build up areas, co-urban areas, outskirt areas, suburban areas, exurban areas, semi-urban areas, peri-urban areas, urbral areas, urban-rural fringe areas, fringe areas, rural-urban fringe areas, rurban areas, peri-rural areas, semi-rural areas, exrural areas, subrural areas, in skirt areas, co-rural areas, build down areas, and rural areas into cyberpunk, teslapunk, solarpunk, and biopunk form of landscape styles
- the arcology buildings should be build to populate more our urban areas
- we should preserve the agricultural lands, arable lands, permanent crop lands, and pasture lands
- we should preserve our nature
- we should plant more trees and we should reforest our forest areas
- we should clean our waters and we should make the bodies of water clean, clear and blue again
- we should totally ban the use of plastics
- we should build the sewerage treatment plants to make the wastes into clear and clean water
- we should make the garbages into reusable and the biodegradable should turn into soil
- we should have an strong strict proper discipline when comes in garbage disposal
- we should invent the home sewerage equipment to recycle the water and prevents sewerage leaks and to order to preserve the clean and clear water
- the climate change is hoax because climate change is man made and manipulated by the weather remote control devices that operated by the evil satanic freemason globalist antichrist people to kill and genocide all of 100% of the population of the humans, animals, plants, and trees that created by the god

8. OTHER AXIS (ALIGNMENT, POLITICALITY, RADICALITY, TRANSITION, PHILOSOPHY)

- I strongly reject the left, center, right, syncretic, big tent, catch all party, and non-quadrant politics because they creates divisiveness a.k.a. left-center-right and confusion a.k.a. syncretic-big tent-catch all party-non quadrant politics in our country
- I am strongly agree to the unity politics because we need to unite the people
- I strongly reject the non-political, apolitical, political, and politicized methods because it creates ignoarace a.k.a. non-political and apolitical and chaos a.k.a. political and politicize
- I strongly reject the non-radicality, moderate, mainstream, radical, and extremist politics because these radicalities creates ignorace (non-radicality, moderate, and mainstream) and chaos (radical and extremist) in our country
- My transition to establish my ideology should be in destructive violent bloody barbaric terroristic psycopathic dangerous revolution to establish my ideal ideology in my country
- my ideology is inspired in ancien regime with cyberpunk characteristics and ancien regime with science fiction fantasy characteristics
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2024.03.28 03:09 the_Stick Reparations, Gambling, and the Role of Academics

Warning: Long Rambling Post Ahead -- tl;dr - how should we help improve society, especially for the historically marginalized?
The past few weeks have have been extremely busy for me, and my subconscious has glommed onto items in the news media. A few topics repeatedly came up and started me thinking outside my specific academic area, and of course raised questions for me to think about. I'd like to share and read your opinions.
One story that hit the news a week or so ago was the ongoing debate in New York state about reparations. There apparently was a proposal to specifically target reparations to descendants of slaves, which resulted a backlash from several constituencies. One that struck me was some arguing that reparations should be paid to all black people and not just descendants of slaves. There is an argument there, but there is also an unspoken assumption, that reparations will be cash. I haven't followed California's reparations debate, but I know different groups have come up with a "price tag." Again, the assumption seems to be "here's a sum of money."
Also, my state has recently legalized sports gambling and at least five betting companies have inundated all media with commercials. "First bet is free." "Spend just five dollars and get $250 in free bets." "We'll give you $800 in free bets." And so on. What struck me about this media blitz was the demographics in the ads. For weeks, the people in the ads were exclusively men; I've now recently seen two women featured in ads (one white, one black). Also, there were a few quasi-recognizable washed-up white mostly football players in the ads, but the vast majority of men in the ads were black. No Hispanics or Asians. Clearly there was a demographic in mind for targeting these ads, though one of them does have a tagline "you can even bet on golf" -- white, people, we'll take your money too.
This got me thinking further about the neighborhoods I regularly drive through. I'm in a southern state and the legacy of red-lining is blatantly obvious. The grocery store over on the west side of town has a hot bar and fancy cheeses and a boutique shop and optometrist inside, plus a little sit-down eating area. The same store on the east side of town has a payday lender, a no-name bank, a money express transfer stall (catering at least to the immigrant population moving in to that area) and not much in the way of amenities. The pay-day lender is the big tell; how often do you see a payday lender (or even pawn shops) in the suburbs? There are more examples of predatory businesses in the disadvantaged neighborhoods too, and fewer choices. At least there are two grocery stores on the east side of town relatively close together helping avoid food deserts, though my area has one of the highest food insecurity rates in the US. Ugh.
So how do I link these two stories? Why does it seem like so many who advocate for reparations specifically advocate for cash reparations? The conspiracy theorist in me starts seeing salivating CEOs of predatory businesses eager to transfer those payments from those who often suffer high rates of financial illiteracy right into their own coffers? Remember Rooms-to-Go and Rent-a-Center? They often rented "nice" tvs to people who over the span of the rental paid five times (or more!) what it would cost to outright buy, but those people thought it was a good deal because they could afford the monthly payment.
To be clear, this is not just a black thing, but I'm focused there since I'm invested in making sure reparations are done well. I've seen many poor people of all races misled and swindled. Look at lottery winners and how many remark that winning was a curse and burn through all their winnings quickly. Marginalized people tend to lower education and fall for scams at a higher rate. So in a nutshell, I think cash payments are highly likely to be a very bad idea. Even if the government tries to head off that lump sum disaster by parceling out payments over a period of time, there will be businesses that take advantage of that by offering the payees a lump sum in exchange for selling their reparations payments to them (think J.G. Wentworth).
I've seen this before in my home state of WV. I remember when government assistance provided boxes of 'generic' food. There were many jokes about government cheese. While not every person in every family liked what they received, they received sufficient nutrition. Some found ways to trade or sell what they didn't want, but there were few buyers for government-provided items. That changed with the advent of SNAP, EBT, and direct cash payments. Even limiting what a person could buy with "food stamps" just lead to people selling food stamps at a significant loss so they could buy prohibited items. With less oversight came more reckless behavior and a lapse into greater insecurity rather than a path out of bad circumstances. And I saw generations raised this way and repeat the errors of their forebears; it propagates.
So what's the solution? Seeing what I have "from the inside," I think any sort of cash payment will sound enticing, but fall far short of actually helping the majority of people. I think instead a sustained and thorough targeting of neglected populations and their neighborhoods, done in a manner to responsibly control gentrification, is far more likely to be effective. I've come to this conclusion through my efforts in targeted infusion grants, where the (federal) government specifically works to increase the capability and capacity of universities historically serving minority populations. I've seen poor research institutions greatly improve their ability to educate and train young folk and connect marginalized students with mentors who can help them become better educated all-around to build a better future. I believe it is worth trying this same idea on a broader scale by investing in schools and making sure they are well-maintained, by hiring competent educators and retaining them, by improving infrastructure and engaging with the current community for their vision of what they want for their neighborhoods and how they would like to see their future shaped. I also see there needs to be not just input but involvement from each community; the affected people need to be part of those doing the fixing so they can have ownership to go with it.
This is already long, so I will end here. I'd love to hear more thoughts about what roles our institutions can play. I've been part of a partnership between an elite R1 and an HBCU and have seen the good and bad in designing and sustaining such a collaboration. What do you think is a viable path for making marginalized communities no longer marginalized? Thank you for you thoughts.
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2024.03.26 01:37 Reagan-Writes Application categories

Hello everyone. I am going to be an international applicant from the US. I am going to apply next cycle to several Canadian law schools. I have noticed that I come across several schools that offer indigenous and black student categories for applications. I am a Hispanic/Mexican applicant and find the lack of options for me frustrating. If we look at the percentages of Black and Mexican/Latinx applicants/students/ and lawyers we can see that they are both around 3% of the population (in America at least). Who should I message or contact to discuss the option for the same categorical overview. I emailed one school, not name dropping, and asked if they would also give any consideration to similar disadvantages given the underrepresented minority groups within the Mexican/Latinx communities- they said no without so much as any other communication. Is there any school that would take that into consideration? Are there any other applicants in similar circumstances? TIA.
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2024.03.18 04:54 -jbrs Campaign Director Amaryllis Fox on Electoral Strategy and the Most Effective Ways to Help

Q: Fox do you have time to break down how November actually works with the electoral college vs the popular vote, how do we ensure our electoral college goes to RFK Jr on ballot day?
A: Sure thing! Every state except Maine and Nebraska is winner takes all, meaning that whichever candidate gets the highest percentage of the popular vote in that state will receive all its electoral votes.
While the states require a simple plurality to win, a candidate needs a full majority of electoral votes (270 or more) to earn the White House.
There are many different mathematical paths to 270, each suited better to particular candidates, parties or strategies.
Some go for the electoral giants, meaning the fewest needed to reach that magic number. Stack-ranked by EV, these eleven states include our nation’s most populous — States like CA, NY, TX, FL and IL.
Fewer go for the inverse approach — the sparsely populated states where each individual person’s vote constitutes a larger share of an electoral vote. Disadvantage here is the need to win far more states, while the advantage is speaking to voters all too often ignored by the legacy parties, a relatively open playing field and affordable ad spends.
A third approach focuses on those with the closest margins in the past election and/or current polling. These 24 battleground states range from razor thin margins like Georgia and Arizona up to 16-17% margin states like Oregon and Montana. The percentage a candidate requires to win these states in a three-way race goes up as the margin does, but none would require a third party candidate to get more than 39% to win, assuming Biden and Trump perform reasonably similarly to 2020, which is increasingly in doubt.
Of course, legacy parties stick to their traditional strongholds, fighting out the last few points in these battlegrounds. For us, the playing field is far more open. For example, we are already leading nationwide among voters under the age of 34 regardless of previous party affiliation. Bobby has disproportionate support among parents of kids under 17, among Black voters, Hispanic voters, environmentalists, peace activists, fiscal responsibility advocates, those who make under $100k a year, and a number of other granular combinations.
The one attribute that all of our cohorts has in common is that the establishment has failed them. Our coalition is comprised of the silent majority in this country who have watched corporations take over the uniparty and trample their dreams. And with a few exceptions, this underserved majority exists in every corner of our country. Some have voted blue, some red, but most have only been biding their time until a leader came along who finally puts them first. Bobby is that leader and his support is growing from sea to shining sea.
And so we are forging a new path to 270 — one that is very data-driven, updated regularly with signals from public and internal polling to engagements on paid and organic messaging by zip code, voter characteristic, etc. I spend a regular part of my week on these numbers and have watched them exceed the necessary benchmarks for the last four months.
Right now, our focus is achieving ballot access in all fifty states plus DC, and sharing Bobby’s message in his own words with every American voter.
I expect us to have collected all necessary signatures by mid-summer, at which point we’ll be sharing a more granular canvassing, voter registration and GOTV plan for our volunteers to help deliver us to 270. Til then, I’m keeping our geographic strategy fairly close-hold. The contributions that help us most during this phase are:
Much more to come — including downloading our upcoming mobile app! — in the weeks and months ahead.
Thanks so much for your work on behalf of a healthier, more prosperous, more hopeful America. Let’s go win this thing.
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2024.03.14 09:37 readingitnowagain The conservative legal movement is taking aim at any legal acknowledgement of the fact that discrimination happened, happens, and will happen in the future.

https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/affirmative-action-supreme-court-business/
The Supreme Court's War on Affirmative Action Was Never Just About Schools
By Madiba K. Dennie March 11, 2024
Last summer, the Supreme Court struck a major blow against diversity in higher education in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. The pair of cases, steered by former stockbroker turned professional aggrieved white man Edward Blum, successfully challenged the schools’ race-conscious admissions programs as unconstitutional, hollowing out decades of legal protections for affirmative action in institutions of higher learning.
But the conservative legal movement’s crusade was never going to stop at colleges and universities. By holding that race-conscious admissions violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s command to not deny “the equal protection of laws” to any person, the Court made it constitutionally suspect for any institution that receives government funds to use targeted measures to address inequality.
Since SFFA, conservative activists have filed a host of lawsuits challenging diversity and equity initiatives in other fields, and the Court’s perversion of the Constitution is already seeping into lower court opinions. On March 5, Trump-appointed district court judge Mark Pittman ruled that it’s unconstitutional for the Minority Business Development Agency to consider race or ethnicity in determining whether applicants can benefit from the agency’s services, which include help with contracts, capital, training, and other services helpful for sustaining and growing business. In other words, according to Pittman, it’s illegal for the Minority Business Development Agency to focus on the development of minority businesses.
The MBDA, housed within the U.S. Department of Commerce, was created by an executive order of President Richard Nixon in 1969. It recognizes that people of color have been discriminated against in this country for-literally-ever, and that the government needed to take reparative action if people of color were to ever fully participate in the American economy. In 2021, the MBDA became a permanent agency. Its website states that it is “the only federal agency solely dedicated to the growth and global competitiveness of minority business enterprises.”
The statute governing the Agency identifies Black or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Asians, and Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders as individuals who are presumed “socially or economically disadvantaged.” (Other individuals may still qualify if “their membership in a group has resulted in their subjection to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias or impaired their ability to compete in the free enterprise system.”) The plaintiffs in Nuziard v. MBDA are three white men and small business owners who sought the services of the MBDA. All of them faced some kind of hardship in their lives—one is a veteran, another a disabled immigrant, and another grew up poor—but, notably, none of them faced hardship because they were white men.
That is, the court contends, until they tried to utilize the services of the MBDA and learned they didn’t qualify. “When Plaintiffs sought benefits from their local Business Centers (and others), they were turned away because they aren’t on the Agency’s list of preferred races/ethnicities,” Pittman writes. He goes on to quip that this means “Oprah Winfrey is presumptively disadvantaged” while low-income white Americans are not. Apparently, the American economy has a Black friend so it can’t be racist.
Pittman knows that Oprah is not representative of the pervasive economic precarity in Black America; he acknowledges that “minorities have less access to loans, get less money when they apply, and have to pay more for it.” Nevertheless, he claims that presuming the very disadvantage he just agreed exists is improper stereotyping, and finds that any conferral of benefits to people of color necessarily comes at the expense of white people who did not appear on “the Agency’s magic list.” Finally, Pittman makes ominous predictions about the effects of MBDA’s policies, writing that even “well intentioned” favoritism can “metastasize for embittered subsets of the populace.” The prospect of white people being sensitive about the existence of one (1) thing that’s not for them is now a constitutional problem.
This mind-numbing rationale comes directly from Chief Justice John Roberts. Congress drafted the Fourteenth Amendment to empower formerly subordinated groups; the dissenting opinions in the Harvard and UNC cases emphasize the Reconstruction Era-understanding that “in a society where opportunity is dispensed along racial lines, racial equality cannot be achieved without making room for underrepresented groups that for far too long were denied admission through the force of law.” In his majority opinion, however, Roberts concluded that “a benefit provided to some applicants but not to others necessarily advantages the former group at the expense of the latter,” and that “eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” This counterproductive formalism renders the Constitution powerless to actually redress harm, and capable only of reinforcing it.
Edward Blum, meanwhile, is churning out more of these disrespectful lawsuits. Last fall, he secured an order against the Fearless Fund, a venture capital fund co-founded by Cosby Show alum Keshia Knight Pulliam to assist woefully underserved women of color entrepreneurs. (Yes, this man is so racist he sued Rudy Huxtable.) Last week, one of his organizations sued the National Museum of the American Latino, arguing that its internship program is unconstitutional because it is designed to increase representation of Latinos in museum positions. “The Museum ‘engages in the offensive and demeaning assumption’ that Latino candidates can best transmit Latino art and history—not because they necessarily have a deeper knowledge of Latino art, history, or culture, but because of their ethnicity,” the complaint says.
This claim reveals the true purpose of the efforts of Blum and people like him: Conservatives simply don’t think people of color are supposed to be in professional spaces. They’re willing to use the Constitution to keep it that way. And at all levels, they have a federal judiciary willing to hear them out.
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2024.03.13 05:36 BongHit101 Asian Interracial Analysis Part 2: Acceptance and Adaptation

Disclaimer: For brevity, AF is used, but it does not refer to all AF (only 54% max). The other 46% of AF's are nothing like this.

(Redemption for the 54% is possible but it has to be done at an early age)

​
If you don’t wish to read Part 1, the main points are:
https://www.reddit.com/azn_soul/comments/1bdiqnx/asian_interracial_analysis_part_1_are_asian_male/
​
  1. Asian male interracial marriage patterns are on par with Blacks and Hispanics males.
  2. AM and AF interracial rates are not the same all over the world and can drastically flip based on social economics. In Russia , there are more AM/WF than AF/WM.
  3. Even in areas where there is higher exposure to other races than whites (i.e., Singapore, San Gabriel Valley), AF/WM are still the most common interracial couple.

Essentially, AF interracial rates will NOT change unless social-economic conditions change.

Exhibit A
Racial Preferences in Dating by Fisman et al.,
https://www.scmp.com/article/615070/its-official-white-men-dont-have-preference-asian-women-any-race-will-do
https://business.columbia.edu/sites/default/files-efs/pubfiles/866/racialPreferences.pdf
This study shows:
  1. White males have no preference for Asian women.
  2. Asian women discrimate against Black and Hispanic men but equally prefer Asian and white males.
In real life, it is rare to see AF’s prefer AM and WM equally. Most likely half prefer AM and half prefer WM, and they got averaged together.
However, this puts AM at a disadvantage. All other races prefer their own race except AF. AM have to share their female counterpart’s preference with WM. Preferring your own race is not racist. It’s instinctual to have a natural affinity to the culture that raised you.
Exhibit B.
Chinese female / Indian male in Singapore
Only coupling similar to AF/WM but on a smaller scale. We will examine possible reasons. This is unusual since the cited study shows AF have negative bias for black and brown skin men. Chinese female/White male are still the most common interracial couple in Singapore.
Chinese Male/Indian Female vs. Chinese Female/Indian Male: 1 to 5
Chinese Male/White Female vs. Chinese Female/White Male: 1 to 12
Income Comparison
In Singapore, Indians are the most educated and have the highest median household income.
Indian - $8,500, Chinese - $7,972, Malay - $5,704
University graduation rates : Indian - 39.4%, Chinese - 28.4%, Malay - 7.7%
Baby Gender Preferences (relates to patriarchy)
More gender imbalance in India despite only China having a one child law.
India 108.18 males per 100 females
China 105.32 male per 100 females
Physical Stereotypes
On Singaporean message boards, you see the same stereotypes of Chinese / East Asian men (short stature, small penis, etc.) being perpetuated to explain the interracial gap. Indian nationalists that hate China propagate these stereotypes as well. We must examine this.
Height Stereotypes
East Asians men are on the average taller than men from Kenya, Mexico, Sudan, India, Yemen.
Penis Stereotypes
East Asians and Indians share the same stereotypes with Indian men depicted as having the second smallest penises in the world.
https://www.reddit.com/india/comments/3dx0da/bad_news_indians_have_the_second_smallest_penis/
However, it is based on inaccurate, self-measured studies.
Non-self-measured studies
Indian (2007) : 5.1 inches (13.01 cm)
South Korean (1998) : 5.28 in (13.42 cm)
Vietnamese (2021) : 5.7 inches (14.67 cm)
​

Conclusions

Comparing East Asian female intermarriage with white and Indian men, what patterns do we see?
No pattern found due to average height, skin color, baby gender preferences, patriarchy (perceived or actual), or penis size (perceived or actual).
The only defining factor is income: higher income or just income parity (since only minor income differences between white, Indian, and East Asian).

Strange Anomaly as Evidence

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/resources/figure2_tcm77-369553.png
In both the US and UK, South Asians are the most endogamous group, mostly due to Indians having a 93% arranged marriage rate (highest in the world).
Even East Asian males have higher intermarriage rates than South Asians. In the UK, Chinese males have 2X more intermarriages than South Asian males.
How did Indian males overcome barriers (like arranged marriages) with high rates of marrying Chinese females, but they are not able to do the same with white or other race females?
This is evidence that the income factor is a major catalyst in forming Chinese women / Indian men relationships but not the case with white women.
However, no Indian / East Asian interracial gender gap exists in the US. Perhaps in the West, the maximum AF’s (54%) are taken up by WM’s.

Two Theories

  1. AF’s (not all, 54% max) would actively seek out the race at the top of a perceived hierarchical totem pole based on a combination of income and social-economic status.
  2. AF would judge all men equally based on whether their race reaches a certain income threshold but dismiss them if they are below that. Affinity towards one’s own culture is not relevant.

Anthropological Theory (Speculative)

This proves that AF interracial rates is difficult to change unless social-economic conditions shift. The American economy has to collapse and become like Russia for it to change.
This behavior is evolved instincts and not learned (not to this extent). In Singapore, the Chinese are the majority, and it still did not matter.
Asians evolved in the harshest climate in Siberia. The epicanthic folds prevent snow blindness and insulate the eyes. Usually, tribal unity is necessary for survival, but in these dire conditions, abandoning one’s tribe and joining a more advantageous tribe was necessary for the survival of the woman and her future offspring.
In other races, joining another group to escape poverty is also seen (i.e., marrying for green card) but affinity to one’s culture returns once a level of economic comfort is reached. For AF’s, the social climbing instincts never deactivate.
Anthropologists believed evolved instincts cannot easily be shut off. Hunter-gatherer cultures in a modern society often suffer high rates of obesity. No genetic reason can be found. Cravings for calorie dense food necessary for hunting and foraging cannot subside even when such foods are plentiful (leading to obesity)..
This social climbing instincts may but found in 54% of AF max. They other 46% do not exhibit these traits. If this trait is genetically predetermined (with some degree of environmental conditioning), Asian parents should find ways to treat this problem early on. Genetic conditions like mental illness and autism can be ameliorated if identified early on.
​

Adaptation

​
  1. Asian Parents
Asian parents need to teach their sons these circumstances and prepare them at an early age. This involves allowing them to date/marry all races white, black, Hispanic, Asian, etc. Requiring sons to only date/marry Asian, resulting in them having to change course later in life will be challenging. Let them know their interracial rates are on par with other men and they are perfectly normal. The popularity of KPop proves that AM's are intrinsically attractive to all races.
For daughters, Asian parents should find ways to induce more normalized self-pride and culturally affinity within them regardless of social/economic conditions (though the process may be experimental at this point). Again, it has to be done at an early age before adolescence when negative nfluences already hardwired the brain.
2) Asian Women
Asian women (not all, 54% max) should stop publicly defending their behavior by demeaning Asian men and creating false patriarchy narratives as justification. They further hurt Asian men and are not even relevant factors. Theoretically could also be mate guarding survival instincts (keeping the men in the tribe as resources).
Make some concessions, take some personal responsibilities, and give Asian men their personal space as they try to adapt.
3) Asian Men
If these two things can be done, Asian men should make peace with the situation. Do not hold on to negativity. Wish AF/WM no ill will. Do not take instinctual habits on a personal level.
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2024.03.13 05:14 BongHit101 Asian Interracial Analysis Part 2: Asian Sons = Adaptation, Asian Daughters = Self-Pride

Disclaimer: For brevity, AF is used, but it does not refer to all AF (only 54% max). The other 46% of AF's are nothing like this.

(Redemption for the 54% is possible but it has to be done at an early age)
​
If you don’t wish to read Part 1, the main points are:
https://www.reddit.com/Aznfellasafterdark/comments/1bdih0u/asian_interracial_analysis_part_1_asian_male/
​
  1. Asian male interracial marriage patterns are on par with Blacks and Hispanics males.
  2. AM and AF interracial rates are not the same all over the world and can drastically flip based on social economics. In Russia , there are more AM/WF than AF/WM.
  3. Even in areas where there is higher exposure to other races than whites (i.e., Singapore, San Gabriel Valley), AF/WM are still the most common interracial couple.

Essentially, AF interracial rates will NOT change unless social-economic conditions change.

Exhibit A
Racial Preferences in Dating by Fisman et al.,
https://www.scmp.com/article/615070/its-official-white-men-dont-have-preference-asian-women-any-race-will-do
https://business.columbia.edu/sites/default/files-efs/pubfiles/866/racialPreferences.pdf
This study shows:
  1. White males have no preference for Asian women.
  2. Asian women discrimate against Black and Hispanic men but equally prefer Asian and white males.
In real life, it is rare to see AF’s prefer AM and WM equally. Most likely half prefer AM and half prefer WM, and they got averaged together.
However, this puts AM at a disadvantage. All other races prefer their own race except AF. AM have to share their female counterpart’s preference with WM. Preferring your own race is not racist. It’s instinctual to have a natural affinity to the culture that raised you.
Exhibit B.
Chinese female / Indian male in Singapore
Only coupling similar to AF/WM but on a smaller scale. We will examine possible reasons. This is unusual since the cited study shows AF have negative bias for black and brown skin men. Chinese female/White male are still the most common interracial couple in Singapore.
Chinese Male/Indian Female vs. Chinese Female/Indian Male: 1 to 5
Chinese Male/White Female vs. Chinese Female/White Male: 1 to 12
Income Comparison
In Singapore, Indians are the most educated and have the highest median household income.
Indian - $8,500, Chinese - $7,972, Malay - $5,704
University graduation rates : Indian - 39.4%, Chinese - 28.4%, Malay - 7.7%
Baby Gender Preferences (relates to patriarchy)
More gender imbalance in India despite only China having a one child law.
India 108.18 males per 100 females
China 105.32 male per 100 females
Physical Stereotypes
On Singaporean message boards, you see the same stereotypes of Chinese / East Asian men (short stature, small penis, etc.) being perpetuated to explain the interracial gap. Indian nationalists that hate China propagate these stereotypes as well. We must examine this.
Height Stereotypes
East Asians men are on the average taller than men from Kenya, Mexico, Sudan, India, Yemen.
Penis Stereotypes
East Asians and Indians share the same stereotypes with Indian men depicted as having the second smallest penises in the world.
https://www.reddit.com/india/comments/3dx0da/bad_news_indians_have_the_second_smallest_penis/
However, it is based on inaccurate, self-measured studies.
Non-self-measured studies
Indian (2007) : 5.1 inches (13.01 cm)
South Korean (1998) : 5.28 in (13.42 cm)
Vietnamese (2021) : 5.7 inches (14.67 cm)
​

Conclusions

Comparing East Asian female intermarriage with white and Indian men, what patterns do we see?
No pattern found due to average height, skin color, baby gender preferences, patriarchy (perceived or actual), or penis size (perceived or actual).
The only defining factor is income: higher income or just income parity (since only minor income differences between white, Indian, and East Asian).

Strange Anomaly as Evidence

https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/resources/figure2_tcm77-369553.png
In both the US and UK, South Asians are the most endogamous group, mostly due to Indians having a 93% arranged marriage rate (highest in the world).
Even East Asian males have higher intermarriage rates than South Asians. In the UK, Chinese males have 2X more intermarriages than South Asian males.
How did Indian males overcome barriers (like arranged marriages) with high rates of marrying Chinese females, but they are not able to do the same with white or other race females?
This is evidence that the income factor is a major catalyst in forming Chinese women / Indian men relationships but not the case with white women.
However, no Indian / East Asian interracial gender gap exists in the US. Perhaps in the West, the maximum AF’s (54%) are taken up by WM’s.

Two Theories

  1. AF’s (not all, 54% max) would actively seek out the race at the top of a perceived hierarchical totem pole based on a combination of income and social-economic status.
  2. AF would judge all men equally based on whether their race reaches a certain income threshold but dismiss them if they are below that. Affinity towards one’s own culture is not relevant.

Anthropological Theory (Speculative)

This proves that AF interracial rates is difficult to change unless social-economic conditions shift. The American economy has to collapse and become like Russia for it to change.
This behavior is evolved instincts and not learned (not to this extent). In Singapore, the Chinese are the majority, and it still did not matter.
Asians evolved in the harshest climate in Siberia. The epicanthic folds prevent snow blindness and insulate the eyes. Usually, tribal unity is necessary for survival, but in these dire conditions, abandoning one’s tribe and joining a more advantageous tribe was necessary for the survival of the woman and her future offspring.
In other races, joining another group to escape poverty is also seen (i.e., marrying for green card) but affinity to one’s culture returns once a level of economic comfort is reached. For AF’s, the social climbing instincts never deactivate.
Anthropologists believed evolved instincts cannot easily be shut off. Hunter-gatherer cultures in a modern society often suffer high rates of obesity. No genetic reason can be found. Cravings for calorie dense food necessary for hunting and foraging cannot subside even when such foods are plentiful (leading to obesity)..
This social climbing instincts may but found in 54% of AF max. They other 46% do not exhibit these traits. If this trait is genetically predetermined (with some degree of environmental conditioning), Asian parents should find ways to treat this problem early on. Genetic conditions like mental illness and autism can be ameliorated if identified early on.
​

Adaptation

​
  1. Asian Parents
Asian parents need to teach their sons these circumstances and prepare them at an early age. This involves allowing them to date/marry all races white, black, Hispanic, Asian, etc. Requiring sons to only date/marry Asian, resulting in them having to change course later in life will be challenging. Let them know their interracial rates are on par with other men and they are perfectly normal. The popularity of KPop proves that AM's are intrinsically attractive to all races.
For daughters, Asian parents should find ways to induce more normalized self-pride and culturally affinity within them regardless of social/economic conditions (though the process may be experimental at this point). Again, it has to be done at an early age before adolescence when negative nfluences already hardwired the brain.
2) Asian Women
Asian women (not all, 54% max) should stop publicly defending their behavior by demeaning Asian men and creating false patriarchy narratives as justification. They further hurt Asian men and are not even relevant factors. Theoretically could also be mate guarding survival instincts (keeping the men in the tribe as resources).
Make some concessions, take some personal responsibilities, and give Asian men their personal space as they try to adapt.
3) Asian Men
If these two things can be done, Asian men should make peace with the situation. Do not hold on to negativity. Wish AF/WM no ill will. Do not take instinctual habits on a personal level.
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2024.03.11 18:10 Joe_Monahan Do We Deny Blacks Have Free Will?

Do We Deny Blacks Have Free Will?
I’ve been exploring something I think is quite disturbing about AI models, and maybe our society has a whole.
Popular AI models know what they know because they have absorbed the publicly available facts, opinions, knowledge of our society. These interfaces may allow us to speak to "our society" as a whole then, and learn what IT or WE think/s.
But my experiments with ChatGPT has led to some really disturbing facts. For one, this most popular of the public AI engines does not want to talk about any facts around race! It will not, for example, talk about crime in Chicago. Wont tell you what the murder rate is, or what per cent of murders are committed by whites vs blacks. This is readily available information, but ChatGPT will not provide it! No wonder Elon Musk is building his own, more rational, more realistic, and actually useful AI system!
But today I learned that ChatGPT largely denies blacks in America have Free Will. And yes, I believe this reflects the largely liberal perspective. Liberals treat blacks as an incompetent, uneducable race whose socio-economic inequities are not the result of their own beliefs, values and actions, but of society's racist structures or "rules". Even the liberal black leaders like Abraham X Kendi seem to believe this nonsense. He claims the inequities are the result of "bad rules". Although he is understandably shy about describing exactly what those bad rules actually are!
After all, if he described what they are, we could test his theories. And he would not want that! :-)
But ChatGPT lays out the sad liberal mind-set almost too clearly. And if this truly reflects our society then we are in trouble. Almost every last one of us has a background that includes stories of overcoming great odds. The vast majority of US citizens whose ancestors are Irish, Hispanic, Eastern European, Jew, Italian and ETC have family stories of great hardship. Hardship that includes desperate poverty, pervasive discrimination, incredible hard work and fortitude. Yet within just a couple generations the vast majority of us overcame those great odds to make something of ourselves in this great country.
Blacks were following that well worn track too ... until the liberals decided to "help them". We have to ask ourselves how many of our own ancestors would have had their successful trajectories derailed by liberals' welfare schemes? As my mom used to say when I was a kid and we would see some poor person: "There but for the Grace of God go I." And I think she was right! Without the work ethic that emerged from a "do or die" existence we too may be suffering the same disparities so many blacks suffer from today.
The ongoing problem of course is that liberals continue to believe that blacks have no free will, and therefore can not help themselves. They believe it is only white liberal generosity that will save the blacks from themselves. Which of course is an incredibly arrogant, and ignorant belief. And a truly destructive one.
Let see how ChatGPT reflects these mistaken social beliefs in its response to two questions.
1.) What do you think accounts for the economic achievement of immigrant Jews to the United States in the 19 century?
2.) What do you think accounts for the social economic disparities amongst blacks in the United States?
The complete responses are below. But note - Jews' success was the result of personal choices and cultural factors. Blacks lack of success was not the result of personal choices or culture, but our white society. That means our most influential AI model doesn't believe blacks have free will or personal agency to move past the roadblocks all our ancestors did. ChatGPT - and apparently Society itself - believes that while we all overcame incredible odds, blacks can not.
AI, and our Society believe that the structural racism, discrimination, and lack of educational opportunities in today's society are so great, that blacks simply can not over come them to emerge into the middle class of American Society. When I look around at our society I can not find these obstacles. Could they be convenient excuses to help justify the liberal lie that blacks lack the same personal agency they themselves possess?
This liberal belief is inane, racist and rather disgusting. Especially given the fact that blacks from Africa and the Caribbean, many descendants of slaves, fly past the socioeconomic levels of US blacks within a generation or two, exactly like many of our own ancestors did.
Don't you wish the far left liberals could use the brain they seem so enamored with to contemplate these facts? And then stop "helping" blacks hurt themselves? Maybe give blacks the same credit they would give their own ancestors?
At any rate, here is ChatGPT's response to those two questions....Read it and weep.
1.) What do you think accounts for the economic achievement of immigrant Jews to the United States in the 19 century?
The economic achievements of immigrant Jews in the 19th century in the United States can be attributed to several factors. Many Jewish immigrants during that period were driven by a pursuit of economic opportunities and escaping religious persecution in their home countries. Some key factors include:
Entrepreneurial Spirit: Many Jewish immigrants were entrepreneurial and engaged in various business ventures, including peddling, retail, and trade.
Emphasis on Education: Education has been historically important in Jewish culture. Families often prioritized education, which could lead to better economic prospects.
Community Support: Tight-knit Jewish communities provided mutual support, both socially and economically, fostering a sense of solidarity that could contribute to economic success.
Adaptability: Immigrants often demonstrated adaptability to new environments, learning new trades and skills to integrate into the American economy.
Networking: Establishing and leveraging social networks within the Jewish community and beyond helped in business and job opportunities.
2.) What do you think accounts for the social economic disparities amongst blacks in the United States?
The socio-economic disparities among Black Americans in the United States are complex and rooted in historical, systemic, and contemporary factors. Some contributing factors include:
Historical Injustices: Slavery, segregation, and discriminatory policies have left a lasting impact, creating a historical context for economic disparities.
Systemic Racism: Ongoing systemic racism in institutions, such as housing, education, and employment, has limited opportunities for many Black individuals.
Education Disparities: Unequal access to quality education can hinder economic mobility and job opportunities for some Black Americans.
Criminal Justice System: Disproportionate interactions with the criminal justice system and mass incarceration can have long-term economic consequences for individuals and communities.
Discrimination in Employment: Discrimination in hiring practices and limited access to higher-paying jobs can contribute to income disparities.
Wealth Inequality: Historical disadvantages and limited access to wealth-building opportunities, such as homeownership, contribute to significant wealth gaps.
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2024.03.10 03:00 io3401 How much support is there for New Mexican students at the SOM?

I’m currently an undergrad, but I’m starting to look at medical schools. I plan to apply at the SOM (for MD or MD/PhD), but I was curious about how much financial support is available, specifically for students from New Mexico. I am from northern NM and intend to practice to go back to my community to practice when I graduate. My areas of interest are in pediatrics, family medicine, and rural medicine. I know that I qualify for the residential tuition, but how are scholarships and grants? Is it possible to get a full or almost full ride if my stats are good enough?
Outside of financial support, are students coming from disadvantaged backgrounds (Hispanic, first-generation, rural, etc) well supported?
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2024.03.07 18:39 schadenfuzz For the data heads: Comparing AMCAS application cycle numbers for 2023, 2022, and 2021 matriculated applicants

For the data heads: Comparing AMCAS application cycle numbers for 2023, 2022, and 2021 matriculated applicants
This is an update to a post I put up last year. Thoughts, anyone?
I find it interesting how, when you factor out the aberrant post-COVID year, the number of applicants has remained as steady as it has.
  • 2023 – 51,100
  • 2022 – 49,324
  • 2021 – 60,363
  • 2020 – 51,191
  • 2019 – 51,550
  • 2018 – 50,905
I'd love to know whether AACOMAS and TMDSAS figures follow similar trends but haven't had any luck in tracking down that information if it's available publicly.
https://preview.redd.it/tj3ffhxs7ymc1.jpg?width=1216&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ff2fa9c9fd69414e0a211d63bcf81330cf1abf3
https://preview.redd.it/tcehhgxs7ymc1.jpg?width=1212&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=611ef24d54a774ecbdde917e0b40e224622d546f
https://preview.redd.it/zhdr0bxs7ymc1.jpg?width=1213&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff4de925e5c3e4a20ca27979f0d92c5451219fa0
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2024.03.04 17:30 Alternative_Art_6505 URM but not disadvantaged

I am a hispanic male. URM status, but I am not disadvantaged. I have URM background however there are several physicians in my family. My cultural identity is important to me and I have some ideas on how to incorporate this into parts of my writing.
I have heard from some people that URM doesn’t matter if you are not disadvantaged, but this really doesn’t feel right. Thoughts??
also any tips on writing about this aspect of my identity/journey are very welcome!!!
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2024.03.04 01:26 AcanthocephalaNice35 Matchmaking

As a player just starting out with a shit ton of info to still absorb ,I have a question for anybody who can answer it regarding matchmaking. For the last couple nights I been loading in raids with squads where the other 3 people were on the mic speaking some sort of Hispanic language which is all well and good , but I'm an American who knows nothing but English so can't communicate with these people . This is an issue and has gotten me killed everytime . What can I do to stop this if anything ? I can't even find a squad / solo option to me it's seemed to be just whatever the games wants It puts me in lmfao . I'd rather not run squads in the first place but it's fine under circumstances that don't put me at a major disadvantage. Is there anything I can do ?
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2024.02.27 23:21 Cookiecuttermaxy Redoing my post from yesterday: Feeling opressed helps at the gym, it gives a sense of urgency and a sense of wanting to take your power back

In this case being I am a social autist, obviously I am not systematically opressed (guys, did you know we didn't have to pick cotton or fight for the right to vote like the suffragists)
But we are prone to a lot of social marginalization and ostracism
Also Hitler hated regarded people
But in all seriousness by focusing on my social disadvantages, it gives that urge of "needing to improve myself"
If I focus on my percieved privileges (oh I am Hispanic, but I am white passing anyways, I am a cis man, blah blah blah) it gets me into a complacent mood at the gym
Is a weird mental flow, but if it helps at the gym why not engage it?
There is a reason a lot of black people are obsessed to the max with the gym and fitness culture, it makes them feel in control of their circumstances and situations
Well aside from the genetic package, but that's beside the point
Also being autist can be advantage at the gym, due to the hyperfixation mechanism, one time I remember losing 30 pounds in just 2 months from a lot of overtraining and lazy dieting(and it still worked was I amazed)
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2024.02.24 11:34 Budget-Song2618 Polls open Sat at 7am ET and remain open until 7pm ET. South Carolina awards 50 delegates to the national convention. Whoever gets 1,215 delegates wins the Republican nomination. Trump V. Hailey + 5 other candidates will also appear on the ballot, incl 2 Rep' who have already withdrawn from the race

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/23/south-carolina-republican-primary-trump-haley
When do polls close in South Carolina?
Polls open Saturday at 7am ET and remain open until 7pm ET. Notably, more than 140,000 voters have already cast ballots in the Republican primary, either through early voting or as absentees. Results will begin coming in shortly after the polls close. Five out of six votes were counted within two hours of the polls closing in 2016.
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How many delegates are at stake?
South Carolina awards 50 delegates to the national convention. Whoever gets 1,215 delegates wins the Republican nomination. The winner of the statewide count in South Carolina receives 29 delegates, while 21 will be allocated to the top vote-getter in each of the state’s seven congressional districts.
How do the demographics of South Carolina compare with the rest of the country?
South Carolinians are twice as likely to be Black than Americans overall – 26% in South Carolina v 12.3% nationally, according to the American Community Survey conducted by the US Census Bureau. Despite Republican protests about immigration, South Carolinians are also much less likely to be Hispanic or Asian – 6% and 2% respectively in South Carolina, compared with 14% and 6% nationwide.
Roughly 93% of Republican voters in South Carolina are white, according to surveys by the Pew Research Center.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/4-things-to-watch-in-south-carolina-s-republican-primary/ar-BB1iOcdD
The delegate math
For all the expectation-setting and speculative arguments, there is still only one concrete measure of success: delegates. The eventual nominee will need 1,215 of them.
Trump currently leads Haley, 63 to 17. It’s obviously not insurmountable, and with 50 at stake in South Carolina, Haley could theoretically jump into the lead. Much more likely, though, is that she will be shut out entirely. South Carolina awards 29 of its delegates to the statewide winner and three apiece to the leader in each of its seven congressional districts.
Though it’s still early in the primary calendar, it’s getting late for Haley. There will be more than 850 delegates on offer during Super Tuesday, on March 5, when states like California and Texas vote. That’s roughly 35% of the entire delegate pot.
Haley, then, will be desperate to avoid a headline-grabbing goose egg in her home state, if for no other reason than its potential to discourage possible supporters ahead of mathematically bigger contests.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/24/whats-at-stake-for-the-south-carolina-primary?traffic_source=rss
What’s at stake for Nikki Haley in the South Carolina primary?
A loss to Donald Trump in the eastern US state for its former governor could prove fatal to her presidential campaign.
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Why is this primary so important for Haley?
South Carolina is Haley’s home state. She was its governor for six years until 2017. A loss to Trump, who leads her in opinion polls by 36 points, would come as a major political blow. Regardless, Haley has promised to fight on even if she does lose in the state.
On Tuesday, she said she has “no need to kiss the ring” by bowing out and endorsing the former president.
In South Carolina, Haley’s governorship was viewed favourably among her core constituents. However, women have made up an average of 53 percent of the voters in presidential elections since 2000, and this could, ironically, be to her disadvantage. In December, an Emerson College poll showed just 8 percent support among Republican women for Haley compared with 19 percent support among Republican men.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/haley-courts-independents-democrats-she-aims-avoid-blowout-trump-her-home-turf
Haley courts independents, Democrats as she aims to avoid a blowout to Trump on her home turf
Haley emphasizes that South Carolina 'is on open primary' and points to Independents and even some Democrats who may vote against Trump
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The final polls in South Carolina showed Trump maintaining a large double-digit lead over Haley, the last remaining major rival challenging the former president.
Independents helped fuel Haley's 43% showing in New Hampshire, where she lost to Trump by 11 points. But while independent voters have long played a crucial and influential role in the first-in-the-nation primary, they are much less of a factor in South Carolina's more conservative electorate, where evangelical voters enjoy prominence in GOP contests.
A Monmouth University poll about South Carolina's primary conducted last weekend had Trump with a 72%-to-25% lead among Republicans questioned, similar to how he performed with GOP voters in New Hampshire. Haley, meanwhile, held a narrow 53%-46% advantage among independents.
The problem for Haley is nearly two-thirds of those sampled by the survey indicated they were Republicans, with only 28% identifying as independents.
Longtime South Carolina-based Republican consultant Dave Wilson, who remains neutral in the primary, noted "there is no party registration in this state."
"They're targeting what would be considered independent or swing voters. There's just not that many in South Carolina. You're either an R or a D in this state," Wilson said, addressing Haley's campaign efforts.
He added the Haley campaign and aligned groups are "trying to find people who are so against Donald Trump that they're willing to step into a Republican booth and choose her name just to vote against Trump."
Haley's allies are also making a pitch for Democrats who didn't cast a ballot in the party's relatively low turnout presidential primary earlier this month to vote in the GOP contest.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-expected-move-closer-clinching-gop-presidential-nomination-likely-big-win-over-haley-s-c
Trump expected to move closer to clinching GOP presidential nomination with likely big win over Haley in SC
Trump says Haley's 'getting clobbered' in South Carolina. 'She's finished.' But his GOP presidential primary rival remains defiant, vowing 'I refuse to quit'
https://www.politico.com/2024-election/results/south-carolina/#
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-primary-elections/south-carolina-president-results
South Carolina GOP presidential election results. Stay tuned for our live coverage of the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina.
South Carolina’s Feb. 24 Republican primary is likely to be the final make-or-break moment for anyone other than Trump to remain in the Republican race. Nikki Haley, the state’s former governor, is running a distant second there behind Trump. If Haley doesn’t win her home state or come within arm’s length of Trump, it’s unlikely there’s a path forward for her.
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2024.02.23 22:41 ChronicleOfHigherEd Yale, Dartmouth, and MIT are going to start requiring applicants to submit an ACT or SAT score. Not everyone is happy about it.

Yale, Dartmouth, and MIT have all announced they're changing course and going back to test-required policies after they, and hundreds of other colleges, went test-optional amid the pandemic. It’s reignited a hot debate over what the SAT and ACT do (and don’t do) for people who higher education has long underserved.
Supporters of the test requirements say that the scores help them find promising but disadvantaged students. They say they adjust what they think of as a “good score” based on a student’s socioeconomic status and geographic location. Admissions officials say the scores help them find students who will be successful at their institutions (the SAT is "the single, best predictor of a student’s academic performance at Yale," according to Yale’s dean of undergraduate admissions).
But critics point out that the tests’ apparent wealth and race biases are a clear sign that there’s something wrong with them. (Poorer students tend to do worse on standardized tests, and Asian and white students outperform Black and Hispanic ones on average.) For some critics, it’s hard to square colleges’ stated dedication to a more diverse student body with their commitment to requiring tests with known biases.
What's been your experience with test-optional or test-required policies? Do you think the ACT and SAT are a good indicator of how you'll perform at college?
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2024.02.23 06:05 Seankala Why do so many Americans say "People of Color" when in reality they mean "Black" or "Latino?"

Something that's always been on my mind. I recently read a news article talking about how Yale University will bring back SAT testing and, of course, most of the comments were talking about how standardized testing "puts students of color at a disadvantage." Asians have always excelled at standardized tests, and yet they're "colored," too.
I've noticed this seems to be a strictly American thing. It seems to be a way of people to come off as "holier than thou," when in reality there's nothing wrong with admitting the reality that Black and Hispanic people are societally at a disadvantage in the US.
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2024.02.18 19:25 Highinthe505 The Older Workers and Retirement Chartbook shows the risks to retirement security and disparities in retirement preparedness, and explores the links between labor market challenges facing older workers and retirement insecurity.

The U.S. population is aging; at the same time, the labor force participation rate is increasing among older Americans. As a result of well-documented flaws in the U.S. retirement system, many older workers hope to continue working as long as possible to make ends meet. However, many face barriers to working longer and lack access to decent jobs with decent pay. Older workers who cannot afford to retire often face diminishing job quality and earnings as a result of loss of bargaining power.
The connection between work and retirement insecurity is a two-way street. Bad jobs lead to bad retirements, but retirement insecurity also forces older workers to accept bad jobs. Workers with the freedom to walk away from a bad job can negotiate better pay and working conditions with their existing or new employers, individually or as part of a union. In this way, they can strengthen the bargaining power of other workers as well.
Some workers are able to work longer to close the retirement income gap, but expecting workers to work longer is neither a fair nor a realistic solution to a broken retirement system. Some workers may benefit from delaying retirement to increase their savings and accrued benefits while shortening their retirement. But expecting workers to work into old age is neither a feasible nor an equitable solution to the retirement crisis. For one thing, the increase in life expectancy has been concentrated among higher earners with jobs that are less physically demanding. For another, Americans already work more, and longer, than workers in most peer countries.
Many workers are forced to retire earlier than planned because of poor health, job loss, difficult working conditions, or caregiving responsibilities. Workers who lose their jobs at an older age have a much harder time reentering the workforce than those who lose jobs earlier in their careers; many become discouraged and retire earlier than planned. Despite some health improvements at older ages and a shift from manufacturing to office jobs, many older workers are in poor health or have physically demanding and onerous jobs they cannot reasonably be expected to perform in old age. Those who do manage to keep working into their late 60s and 70s are often just trying to make ends meet by supplementing Social Security benefits with earnings but without accruing retirement benefits or savings.
Black, Hispanic, women, disabled, and LGBTQ workers are at greater risk of financial hardship at older ages. The root cause of this risk is not poor planning. Rather, retirement insecurity is a systemic problem. Lack of access to employer-sponsored retirement plans explains most of the coverage gap between white workers and Black and Hispanic workers. When Black and Hispanic workers do have access to such plans, the plans are less generous on average than the plans white workers have access to. Meanwhile, lower incomes on average make it harder for Black, Hispanic, women, and disabled workers to contribute to a retirement plan or otherwise save for retirement. Black workers offset some of these disadvantages by gravitating toward public-sector jobs with lower pay but secure pension benefits. While women have caught up with men in retirement plan coverage, their lower lifetime earnings, greater caregiving burdens, and longer life spans put them at higher risk of old-age poverty. LGBTQ seniors face adverse effects of past and present discrimination, including less access to spousal benefits.
We need to address specific challenges facing older workers. Policies that help level the playing field for older workers include enforcing age discrimination laws, expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit to help more adults without dependent children, implementing policies that reduce the employer cost of providing health insurance to older workers, changing performance metrics used to evaluate worker training programs that lead those programs to favor enrolling younger workers, and creating a dedicated Older Workers Bureau in the U.S. Department of Labor to help identify and address challenges faced by older workers.
Policies that improve working conditions for all workers can especially benefit vulnerable older workers. Though older workers can benefit from targeted policies, the impact of such policies is often limited. Leveling the playing field for all workers can be more effective in aiding older workers than implementing targeted policies. Broad-based policies that would have a big impact on older workers include: macroeconomic policies designed to produce full employment; protecting workers’ right to collectively bargain for better wages and working conditions; ensuring access to affordable health care and caregiving help; enacting paid leave and scheduling policies to ensure workers can take time to care for themselves and their families; fixing a patchwork unemployment insurance system; and measures that better protect workers from injury and illness, including COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
Everyone faces significant risks as they age. It is unrealistic to expect older workers to save enough to offset the financial fallout from unexpected job loss, retiring during a stock or housing market downturn, becoming widowed or divorced, or incurring expensive medical or long-term care needs. Even well-off Americans are easily impoverished by long-term care, and they are more likely to live long enough to develop cognitive disabilities and other conditions associated with advancing age, and thus to need long-term care.
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2024.02.14 22:04 eimedicine Did I make a mistake in applying this cycle?

I'm wondering if I tarnished my chances by applying this cycle. I'm a non-traditional student, and my MCAT is not good. I took the MCAT in September of 2022. I wanted to study for it, but life got in the way and I walked in only having studied the day before. I probably should have canceled it, but it didn't feel *that* bad. More on that later. I decided to apply this cycle as a "hail mary" and gain experience on the application to prep for next cycle. .
Demographics: Age: Mid 30s Sex: Male Ethnicity: US-born Hispanic, lived in Latin America during elementary and middle schools, and for a year during high school. I'm not ESL, but I did learn English and Spanish concurrently. My English is stronger than my Spanish now, but as a kid my Spanish was definitely the stronger language.
Education: Undergrad: Double major, management and engineering, worked through school with significant non-athletic extracurriculars. Pell grant recipient for last 2 years (in school for 5 years and 2 quarters).
Undergrad grades: Overall: 3.3/4.0; Engineering: 3.7/4.0; Management: 3.9/4.0. I took about 20 units per quarter (full time is >=12).
AAMC GPA Calculations: BCPM: 2.9/4.0; AO 3.5/4.0
AACOMAS GPA Calculations: Cumulative UG Science: 3.37/4.00; Cumulative UG Non-Science: 3.29/4.00
Additional Education: I reported the classes I took after graduation. Specifically, real estate and fire protection technology courses that augmented my career path at that point.
Research: Publications: I was published in conjunction with summer research at an R1 in 2013. The paper was not published until 2017. I was active in the editing process during that time. The PI is one of my LORs
Senior Project: I had a significant research project for my senior project on FRP reinforced wood frame connections. Due to wanting to get started with work, I never polished it to publish it.
Other Research: As part of a class group, we researched how to apply anti-microbial thin films onto ePTFE for facial imlpants. Although quite detailed for an 8 week research project, it was no where near publication quality.
Employment: Industry: I have been a Civil Engineer since 2015. I should be licensed this year. I passed the FE and PE on the first try, just have been gaining applicable experience because my engineering program was not ABET. I am in a salaried management position working in the preconstruction / development side for a very large, renowned, international infrastructure contractor.
Academia: I am an Adjunct Faculty. I started teaching 3 years ago at a 4 year public University. The first term was just one class over Zoom. Now I teach in person, as well as an online class at a Community College. My teaching load is a combined 94% FTE (Full Time Equivalent). I also help mentor undergraduates in an unofficial role when it comes to interviewing, applying for internships / jobs, and student competitions.
Combined I make about what a GP makes on the lower end of the scale (I'm expecting the question of why I'm giving this up and am prepared to answer it).
Volunteering: During my last two years of college (9-10 years ago), I volunteered with a patient in a skilled nursing facility / hospice. I'd have to check on n umbers, but I think it's around 60 hours.
I also volunteered with various outreach programs for URM and disadvantaged children while in school, such as Junior Achievement and outreach programs to middle and high schools in low income areas through the engineering program.
Volunteering post-school has been lackluster except for the odd event here and there, due to trying to accelerate my career. I don't view teaching as volunteering, but I do think that it has similar positive impact on the community.
Exam Scores: MCAT: 500 (123, 127, 126, 124) PreVIEW: 7 (92% percentile) Casper: 75-100% quartile
LORs:
  1. Former Engineering Department Head who helped with my double major approval. I also volunteered with her outreach activities to URM / disadvantaged middle and high schoolers.
  2. My PI who oversaw my summer research which was published
  3. My Senior Project advisor
  4. An Engineering professor who I took core classes with. They are now the Department head after LOR Writer #1 left to a different institution. Oversaw the research on thin films.
  5. A professor in the same department I am an adjunct in. They have known me the longest (15+ years). Their letter provides perspective as both my instructor and my peer.
  6. My thermodynamics professor (for schools who did not consider any of the above to qualify as a "science" professor).
I have not seen the majority of these letters, however, I believe they are all strong. If I were to replace one with an MD/DO letter, it would probably be #4.
So that's where my application was when I summited.
Outcome so far:
I applied to 38 programs (mostly MD-PhD and MD, with some DO). Five did not solicit a secondary. Two have been radio silent and say they are still reviewing my primary application. The other 31 requested secondaries.
Out of those 31, I've been formally rejected by 17. I'm still waiting to hear back from 14. I have one interview waitlist (at a DO school, but I was waitlisted about 3 months ago) and one interview invite (at a DO school, however, their lack of federal financial aid makes this difficult).
I submitted my application in August and it was transmitted to the schools in September (quite late).
Updates since submission in late August:
So this is where I think maybe I fired off my application too soon. I've included these updates in an update letter (sent this week):
  1. I'm taking BioChem at a local community college this semester.
  2. I started shadowing at a family practice in the Fall. I've been able to go once or twice a month for a full day. I will be able to obtain a LOR. I plan on continuing 1-2x a month, and more often in the summer.
  3. I finished my 16 hours of training to resume volunteering at the Hospice and will be starting that in a couple of weeks.
  4. I connected with an alumnus from my school in the field that I want to practice in late last year. Shadowing isn't a possibility due to distance, but I will likely help with digital administrative tasks in their practice. They have offered to write a LOR.
  5. I will be retaking the MCAT in June
So when comparing next cycle to this cycle, I'll have:
  1. Hopefully a better MCAT score
  2. Letter from an MD and DO
  3. Completed BioChem with an A
  4. About 80 shadowing hours at a family practice
  5. More hours hospice volunteering
Give that I think #1 and #2 (MCAT and MD/DO LOR) are my biggest detriments (I can't do much about my undergrad grades... I took 360+ units. A postbacc would be a drop in the bucket), I wonder if I should have waited.
Is there a stigma to those who have reapplied? Am I wrong in thinking that these improvements are sufficient to get me into a decent MD program?
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