glass half full.

11th December 2011

Link reblogged from loose cannons with 72 notes

The most ridiculous attack on Stuy ever. →

brotylz:

let-me-free:

Stuyvesant High School is not only “a good high school”.  It is a place for the best and the brightest.  There’s a reason middle school students study their asses off for the SHSAT.  There’s a reason people work so hard just for that one chance to get into Stuy.  Because it’s where the best belong, and they want to be the best.  

It’s ridiculous to change the admissions process in exchange for “racial integration”.  The SHSAT does not look at your race when you bubble it; it only looks at your score.  That’s the basis for picking out the smartest kids that belong.  So if coincidentally, we happen to be mostly Asian, it’s not fucking intentional.  People of every other race have the exact same chance we do.  I’m not going to be racist and say that Asians are smarter; our parents are just trained to think that we must make Stuyvesant or be forever condemned.  

It would not be fair if Stuyvesant’s admissions process was altered to include a “minimum academic requirement”.  That takes away the chance of a lifetime for many superstar students.  A 99th percentile student can lose his or her seat to a sub-par student.  A student that can excel at Stuy might end up at some obscure high school, while the 70th percentile student who got the seat might end up struggling at Stuy.  The workload at Stuy is designed for only the best and the most dedicated.

Our generation is slowly dying as it is.  Please don’t take away one of the best sanctuaries for intellectuals.

Things like this never cease to amaze me. 

Source: intelligent-panda

4th September 2011

Link reblogged from a heartbreaking work of a staggering not-so-genius with 704 notes

"Your Asian Wasn't Quiet": Why Asian Americans Are Not Your "Model Minority" →

asianamericanactivism:

• Why Asian Americans Are Not Your “Model Minority”
  • Because 14% of Asian Americans live in poverty.
  • Because we still face blockades and discrimination in the job market, a.k.a. the “bamboo ceiling.”
  • Because America still looks at us like we’re “perpetual foreigners.”
  • Because America still looks at us like we we’re the “yellow peril.”
  • Because Asian American men are emasculated.
  • Because Asian American womyn are exoticized and fetishized.
  • Because a significant number of Asian American youth attend public schools that are under resourced and under privileged.
  • Because gang violence plagues Asian American communities.
  • Because Asian Americans lack representation in politics.
  • Because a significant number of Asian Americans are undocumented.
  • Because Asian Americans do more than get good grades.
  • Because Asian Americans are not quiet, passive-aggressive, or submissive.
  • Because Asian Americans raised hell during the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF).
  • Because Asian Americans like Yuri Kochiyama and Richard Aoki were part of the Black Power Movement.
  • Because Asian Americans had their own movement, the Asian American Movement.
  • Because Asian Americans fought for workers’ rights during the United Farm Workers (UFW) Movement.
  • Because Asian Americans stood in solidarity when there was no justice for Vincent Chin.
  • Because Asian immigrant garment workers fought for equal rights when Jessica McClintock tried to deny them fair wages and a safe work environment.
  • Because we have artists like Magnetic North and Blue Scholars.
  • Because we are active in the LGBTQQIA community.
  • Because we fought and are still fighting for a valid education.
  • Because we are reclaiming our hystory and redefining our identities.
  • Because Asian Americans are continuously organizing, mobilizing, and fighting for their communities and for our rightful place in this country.
  • Because Asian Americans can fucking kick white supremist, nativist, racist, sexist asses.
  • Because “model minority” is just a stereotype that attempts to cover the truth and use us a tokens.

Tagged: asian american activismmodel minority myth

Source: asianamericanactivism

28th August 2011

Link reblogged from a heartbreaking work of a staggering not-so-genius with 9 notes

a heartbreaking work of a staggering not-so-genius: I woke up today a little confused. Maybe Mom made some breakfast for... →

williamkwan:

I woke up today a little confused. Maybe Mom made some breakfast for me before she- I opened my eyes as I started to regain my sense of the real world. I focused my vision and stared down these white concrete blocks painted white for “aesthetic” value. These walls sobered me up back into reality…

homesick as fck

Tagged: schooluncomfortablehomepersonal

Source: williamkwan