Majorities Need Not Apply
Warning: this is a rant, and when I rant I am not completely rational...
I am a Jewish American white girl and so not a minority in this lovely city nor in the institution of higher education I attend. I am also a Democrat and proud of it BUT I am absolutely sick and tired of seeing job offers and internship programs only for minorities. I need a job too! Do only minorities need good intenships to put on their resumes? Do only minorities need to make money this summer? I don't get it.These are not programs geared toward specific ethnic or cultural groups, they are merely run-of-the-mill programs that essentially say, "majorities need not apply," and that is not OK even with little old liberal me.
posted by Eli7 @ 8:23 AM
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4 Comments:
Good luck job hunting!! The reason smart Jewish girls don't get any breaks is because they somehow always manage to get cool jobs anyway... you'll find something.
Well, I would agree except that I spent last summer working in a lab for a semi-nuerotic, eccentric scientist doing a good deal of mind-numbing tasks (cooking mac and cheese and then measuring exactly little containers of it). And it's not that I have anything against eccentric scientists or anything, but hopefully I'll find something slightly more, ummm, exciting, interesting, engaging...
My sister's friend, who is a "Jewish American white girl" born in South Africa, tried to apply for a scholarship for "African Americans."
It almost worked too. Until the interview.
Hey - there are real African Americas who are very light-skinned, I don't think that's so fair. If it says African American...
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