Rallying My Fellow URMs: PART 2

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Alright y'all, this was an extremely helpful thread last year, so let's get it going again!

Where are you guys applying? How's the process going? Any interview invites? What is your first choice?

😀
 
Originally posted by pathdr2b
www.blackdoc2be.com

Yeah, it looks like I'm gonna have to head over there. . .these people on SDN are SO racist and SO sensitive.

I can't even start a thread without some insecure ORM taking offense! Why don't they just get a freekin' life and give up the race bashing??

If it upsets them so much, STAY OFF THE THREAD!!!

😡
 
Originally posted by Jamaican MD
Yeah, it looks like I'm gonna have to head over there. . .these people on SDN are SO racist and SO sensitive.

I can't even start a thread without some insecure ORM taking offense! Why don't they just get a freekin' life and give up the race bashing??

If it upsets them so much, STAY OFF THE THREAD!!!

😡


🙄
 
Originally posted by Jamaican MD
Yeah, it looks like I'm gonna have to head over there. . .these people on SDN are SO racist and SO sensitive.

Yeah, 40 years after the movement not much has changed. When you get a chance, check out the virtual lynching I got in the lounge
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=90249

And if you still want to meet, try to PM me through blackdoc2be.
 
Originally posted by Jamaican MD
Yeah, it looks like I'm gonna have to head over there. . .these people on SDN are SO racist and SO sensitive.

society just likes to bitch 😉 good luck!
 
Originally posted by Jamaican MD
Yeah, it looks like I'm gonna have to head over there. . .these people on SDN are SO racist and SO sensitive.

Isnt it odd to complain about those two things at the same time?
If your complaining about racism maybe YOU are the sensitive one.
 
Yeah, what's wrong with racially exclusive threads? As long as it doesn't exclude my race, of course.
 
Originally posted by Jamaican MD
Yeah, it looks like I'm gonna have to head over there. . .these people on SDN are SO racist and SO sensitive.

I can't even start a thread without some insecure ORM taking offense! Why don't they just get a freekin' life and give up the race bashing??

If it upsets them so much, STAY OFF THE THREAD!!!

😡

were inflammatory posts erased? all i see are BUMPs (unless you're talking about another thread).

i'm confused. oh well.
 
Originally posted by pathdr2b
Yeah, 40 years after the movement not much has changed. When you get a chance, check out the virtual lynching I got in the lounge
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=90249

And if you still want to meet, try to PM me through blackdoc2be.

pathdr2b,
Dont ever use the term "lynching" to describe someone's treatment. Lynching is a very serious and grave hate crime that has resulted in the brutal death of many individuals.

Dont poison the memory of these individuals by associating their suffering with your miserable excuse of a thread. Congratulations on deleting all your posts on that thread path, but rest assured that several SDNers have read the thread and that a record of the posts you deleted still remain. But again, dont ever associate a set of posts in an anonymous pre-med messageboard with the death, suffering, and humiliation of individuals. To do so shows a completely lack of decency and respect for said victims.
 
Originally posted by Jamaican MD
Yeah, it looks like I'm gonna have to head over there. . .these people on SDN are SO racist and SO sensitive.

I can't even start a thread without some insecure ORM taking offense! Why don't they just get a freekin' life and give up the race bashing??

If it upsets them so much, STAY OFF THE THREAD!!!

😡

Hypocrite. You should have stayed off the ORM thread by your own advice of "If it upsets them so much, STAY OFF THE THREAD!!!
"

Now, since you have invaded the ORM thread, I think its only fair that others be allowed to post in the URM thread.

And where exactly is the race bashing in the ORM thread? It looks like you are a hypocrite once more and perhaps "SO sensitive" that you cannot handle the viewpoints of another group?
 
Originally posted by Jamaican MD
Alright y'all, this was an extremely helpful thread last year, so let's get it going again!
😀

My situation is a little unique. I will be reapplying to med school while a matriculated student in a PhD program. MD/PhD just works better for me in this way. The schools on my ever changing list include:

UMaryland
Howard
Harvard
GWU
Gerogetown

Good luck to everyone applying this year and next !!!:clap: :clap:
 
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Originally posted by pathdr2b
My situation is a little unique. I will be reapplying to med school while a matriculated student in a PhD program. MD/PhD just works better for me in this way. The schools on my ever changing list include:

UMaryland
Howard
Harvard
GWU
Gerogetown

Good luck to everyone applying this year and next !!!:clap: :clap:

Pretty nice site, I wanted to register but its not letting me 🙁
 
Originally posted by Gleevec
And where exactly is the race bashing in the ORM thread? It looks like you are a hypocrite once more and perhaps "SO sensitive" that you cannot handle the viewpoints of another group?

Equating ORM threads to URM threads is a totally illegitimate comparison. Historically, groups that have suffered through generations of prejudice have formed self help networks to alleviate the effects of societal discrimination. The Irish, Italians, Jews, Cubans, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, etc... have all done this to achieve success in America. But when black people do precisely the same thing, they are accused of being racist.

Since white people occupy a dominant position in American society, calls for white unity can only serve the purpose of preserving this hegemonic status using various mechanisms. Historically, we know what happens when white people unite - ku klux klan, jim crow, adolf hitler, apartheid, etc....

This is precisely the reason why an ORM thread is racist to the core while a URM thread is something to be lauded. Whereas the former involves the subjugation of an oppressed group by a dominant group, the latter involves the uplifting of an oppressed group.
 
Originally posted by bigbaubdi
Equating ORM threads to URM threads is a totally illegitimate comparison. Historically, groups that have suffered through generations of prejudice have formed self help networks to alleviate the effects of societal discrimination. The Irish, Italians, Jews, Cubans, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, etc... have all done this to achieve success in America. But when black people do precisely the same thing, they are accused of being racist.

Since white people occupy a dominant position in American society, calls for white unity can only serve the purpose of preserving this hegemonic status using various mechanisms. Historically, we know what happens when white people unite - ku klux klan, jim crow, adolf hitler, apartheid, etc....

This is precisely the reason why an ORM thread is racist to the core while a URM thread is something to be lauded. Whereas the former involves the subjugation of an oppressed group by a dominant group, the latter involves the uplifting of an oppressed group.

ORMs are Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Jews, Italians, Irish, Indians, other Asians, other oppressed groups. ORM = overrepresented minorities, not KKK, not hitler, not white supremicists.

At what point did the ORM thread oppress or suppress URMs? There is no possible way in which such a thread could have done this. What you are suggesting is absolutely ridiculous and implies that you simply hate people of other races. Im not saying URMs SHOULDNT talk about common issues, far from it. Not only should URMs talk about issues, but EVERY group should talk about whatever issues they please without free speech-denying fascists such as bigbaudbi disturbing communities.

What is racist is treating one group differently from another simply because of the color of their skin. What is racist is assuming that any group meeting together to discuss common issues that is of a different color skin than you is out to KILL people. You, bigbaudbi, are a huge racist for not allowing ORMs to discuss common issues, and for assuming such a discussion always revolves around immoral actions. Not only are you an ignorant racist, but you also disapprove of free speech. You are the antithesis of a multicultural, tolerant, diverse democracy bigbaudbi, and I hope that individuals such as yourself are rare, otherwise I fear for our society.
 
Originally posted by bigbaubdi
Historically, groups that have suffered through generations of prejudice have formed self help networks to alleviate the effects of societal discrimination. The Irish, Italians, Jews, Cubans, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, etc... have all done this to achieve success in America. But when black people do precisely the same thing, they are accused of being racist.

I'd like to hear an example of when blacks have been accused of racism for doing whatever the Jews or Chinese did.
 
Responding to the first question, I'm a URM (and half ORM,although I'd never heard of that term before🙄 )

Anyway:

Interviews at:

NYMC
Einstein
Columbia
Drexel
Jeff
UVM
NYIT/NYCOM

Rejected at:

Tulane🙄
Vanderbuilt🙄
Rochester🙁

Pending at Too Many to Count.

No decisions yet.

Anybody else?
 
Originally posted by lotanna
Pretty nice site, I wanted to register but its not letting me 🙁

They're still working out the kinks with the software. I'll keep you guys updated when it's up and running.🙂
 
Originally posted by Supadupafly
Responding to the first question, I'm a URM (and half ORM,although I'd never heard of that term before🙄 )
Supadupafly, does this mean you are perfectly represented? If so, that is quite an accomplishment. Nobody else seems to get it perfect.
 
Originally posted by Supadupafly
Responding to the first question, I'm a URM (and half ORM,although I'd never heard of that term before🙄 )
Interviews at:
NYMC
Einstein
Columbia
Drexel
Jeff
UVM
NYIT/NYCOM

Congratulations Supadupafly! Just curious, are you only applying to schools in the Northeast? I'll be trying my damdest to aviod southern schools:laugh:
 
Originally posted by pathdr2b
Congratulations Supadupafly! Just curious, are you only applying to schools in the Northeast? I'll be trying my damdest to aviod southern schools:laugh:

Congratulations supadupafly! :clap: :clap:

Does anyone else find it ironic that pathdr2b complains about affirmative action stereotypes, but then stereotypes the entire south as full of "racist hicks" ? 😕 🙄
 
Originally posted by Cerberus
Sigh🙁 Why do we have to break everything up into racial categories?

I know, people are so alike, yet we as a society have this destructive urge to maximize that .01% that we all differ by. So tragic.
 
Common guys. I know there have to be more URM's applying to schools this year. :clap: :clap:
 
Also, anyone interested in URM research opportunites at the NIH please send me an email. They have numerous opportunities for premeds and medical students that pay very good stipends.
 
Originally posted by bigbaubdi
we know what happens when white people unite - ku klux klan, jim crow, adolf hitler, apartheid, etc....

thanks as$hole.

how bout......the invention of modern math, philosophy, and physics. how bout electricity, the light bulb...vacines...penicilin...the automobile...flight....spacships...
 
Originally posted by hightrump
thanks as$hole.

how bout......the invention of modern math, philosophy, and physics. how bout electricity, the light bulb...vacines...penicilin...the automobile...flight....spacships...

There is no point in arguing with someone so obviously racist.
 
Originally posted by Cerberus
There is not point in arguing with someone so obviously racist.

yaah...what bothers me is that bigbaudi is indian (like from india) so i wouldnt expect that he has an axe to grind. who knows.
 
Originally posted by bigbaubdi
Equating ORM threads to URM threads is a totally illegitimate comparison. Historically, groups that have suffered through generations of prejudice have formed self help networks to alleviate the effects of societal discrimination. The Irish, Italians, Jews, Cubans, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, etc... have all done this to achieve success in America. But when black people do precisely the same thing, they are accused of being racist.

Since white people occupy a dominant position in American society, calls for white unity can only serve the purpose of preserving this hegemonic status using various mechanisms. Historically, we know what happens when white people unite - ku klux klan, jim crow, adolf hitler, apartheid, etc....

This is precisely the reason why an ORM thread is racist to the core while a URM thread is something to be lauded. Whereas the former involves the subjugation of an oppressed group by a dominant group, the latter involves the uplifting of an oppressed group.

:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
 
Originally posted by pathdr2b
:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:


Wow, pathdr2b is cheering on racist comments saying that any non-URM group that convenes together to discuss anything must be planning to kill someone. The hypocrisy is now just becoming ridiculous. 🙄
 
"...free speech-denying fascists such as bigbaudbi"

I am a free-speech denying fascist? Where have I said that ppl should be jailed or punished for expressing their viewpoints? You have the right to start an ORM thread just as I have the right to call such a thread racist. You have the right to challenge my characterization just as I have the right to defend it. That's what free speech is all about.

"not only should URMs talk about issues, but EVERY group should talk about whatever issues they please"

Exactly what types of issues and problems do ORMs have in getting admitted to medical school (besides whining about affirmative action)? Also given the fact that 90% of all med students are ORMs, why would you need to "Rally your fellow ORMs" as you suggested in a previous post? ORMs don't need to be "rallied". There is no need to "Rally" a group (white people) who have occupied a dominant position in medicine and American society for hundreds of years. Nor is there any need to "rally" Asians, who are on average relatively well off financially.

"how bout......the invention of modern math, philosophy, and physics. how bout electricity, the light bulb...vacines...penicilin...the automobile...flight....spacships..."

Your post is astonishingly Eurocentric. I'm not going to waste too much of my energy refuting this however I should point out that much of modern European advancement was based upon the violent subjugation of non white peoples. And of course, all human civilization comes straight out of Africa.
 
i thought this was supposed to be a support thread for URMs.

it's kind of ironic how white people can't stand to be excluded from something, while much of US history documents how they have excluded just about anybody not white male or rich from positions of power, elite institutions, jobs, voting booths....the list goes on. although many have fought and died to crack this stranglehold of oppressive exclusion, it still exists today in subtle forms (like the visceral response to this thread).

so race is a social category-----who cares? social myths are just as real to people as physical reality. it's all in the lens you look through. practically speaking, race is still very real to many people, and it can't be discounted or erased until people are truly respectful of others' ethnicities, genders, and cultures.

with that said, relax. . . . this thread is about community, not whitey bashing.
 
Originally posted by bigbaubdi
"...free speech-denying fascists such as bigbaudbi"

I am a free-speech denying fascist? Where have I said that ppl should be jailed or punished for expressing their viewpoints? You have the right to start an ORM thread just as I have the right to call such a thread racist. You have the right to challenge my characterization just as I have the right to defend it. That's what free speech is all about.

"not only should URMs talk about issues, but EVERY group should talk about whatever issues they please"

Exactly what types of issues and problems do ORMs have in getting admitted to medical school (besides whining about affirmative action)? Also given the fact that 90% of all med students are ORMs, why would you need to "Rally your fellow ORMs" as you suggested in a previous post? ORMs don't need to be "rallied". There is no need to "Rally" a group (white people) who have occupied a dominant position in medicine and American society for hundreds of years. Nor is there any need to "rally" Asians, who are on average relatively well off financially.

"how bout......the invention of modern math, philosophy, and physics. how bout electricity, the light bulb...vacines...penicilin...the automobile...flight....spacships..."

Your post is astonishingly Eurocentric. I'm not going to waste too much of my energy refuting this however I should point out that much of modern European advancement was based upon the violent subjugation of non white peoples. And of course, all human civilization comes straight out of Africa.

I can't believe how hypocritical you are. The way in which you deny free speech is by arguing against the organization of various majority groups, such as ORMs. You say such organization is similar to that of the KKK, hitler, blah blah blah. So of course you imply that ORM speech is different from URM speech, and that while the latter can organize to "improve" themselves, the former simply organizes for more sinister ends. This is the dumbest argument I have ever heard, and is completely racist.

90% of premeds are not ORMs. Yet again, you are simply making stuff up. Furthermore, asians and oppressed whites (poorer ones, ones denied education) and whatnot, are as needy of rallying as anyone else. Asians and poor whites, and even specific caucasian groups, have all been victims of hate at some point. Why is their plight ignored? You make gross generalizations about entire racial groups, showing me that you are the true racist here, speaking as if all within a certain group are well off, or all within another group are living in slums. I have news for you, there are poor asians and whites are there, and there are URMs out there with riches beyond your very imagination. So stop thinking of the world in black and white, in both a figurative and literal sense, because it has made you into a bigot.


hahahhahaha all human civilization comes out of africa? NO ONE HERE IS SAYING THAT URMS ARE INFERIOR A PRIORI. WE ARE SAYING THAT EVERY RACIAL GROUP DESERVES EQUAL CONSIDERATION, AND THAT INDIVIDUALITY SHOULD BE THE NORM. Get that message in your head, because god knows bigotry has already taken over in there. I am not saying URMs shouldnt organize to improve their situation. As I have already said repeatedly, URMs SHOULD organize to improve their situation. All I am saying is that ORMs have difficulties as well.

Let me raise an analogy, because it appears as if pure logic is lost on you. Let us treat a thread about a given subject as a club, like in school, in your case, middle school.

The URMs have a club to hang out. Why shouldnt the ORMs? They are still minorities (Asians are considered minorities, just because they are overrepresented in medicine due to having greater success without handouts, doesnt mean that they arent minorities). So why can certain races have clubs, but not Asians?

Basically, my fundamental question to you is, what is so wrong with certain groups organization? All I am saying is that every organization should be allowed to communicate freely as long as it does not harm anyone, which an ORM thread did not. How did the ORM thread hurt anyone? Why can certain groups not assemble within the perverted logical system your mind has generated while others can?

More importantly, why are you a bigot? How did you become a huge racist? Why do you associate all ORM group activity with the KKK and Hitler, while all URM group activity involves benefitting society?

You have a perverted worldview,bigbaubdi, and it saddens me that racist individuals such as yourself might one day be in some position of power. I hope this is not the case for society's sake.
 
At all my interviews, the interviewers seem more interested in my socioeconomic background than my race.

True, I do have a URM background; I get the feeling they'd consider a white/caucasian person who grew up in extreme poverty, without healthcare access, or amid ubiquitous discrimination, to be disadvantaged also, though.
 
Originally posted by Supadupafly
At all my interviews, the interviewers seem more interested in my socioeconomic background than my race.

True, I do have a URM background; I get the feeling they'd consider a white/caucasian person who grew up in extreme poverty, without healthcare access, or amid ubiquitous discrimination, to be disadvantaged also, though.

I agree completely.
 
I have decided to explain my moral system regarding race here, so as to not be confused. If it were possible for me to put something this long in my signature, I might, but Ill just put it here for now.

1. Genetic differences between races are miniscule. This means that there is no genetic destiny so to speak in regards to aspirational and transcendental issues. While I admit that certain traits (Tay Sachs, Sickle Cell Anemia) are race correllated, I do not believe that any factor relating to intelligence, social prowess, conversational ability, etc, differs between races. I also believe that any of these said differences are greater between individuals regardless of race, than between races themselves.

2. Social differences have confounded people's perception of race. Slavery and illegal immigration have led to a preponderance of immigrants of certain races stuck in certain socioeconomic classes. This is unfortunate and must be rectifed. However, this has nothing to do with race. Nothing inherent to their race, their genetic background, led these individuals to be stuck in a certain position. It was simply historical circumstance that led to these differences that must be corrected.

3. Individuals can transcend stereotypes and have done so. Individuals need not be limited by racial factors in terms of an artificial ceiling. Plenty of individuals from a variety of races have succeeded, and will continue to do so. The inability for certain races not to succeed has more to do with unfortunate circumstances regarding immigration than a lack of innate ability. Thus, the best cure for this disparity is education.

4. Affirmative action masks the true problem-- unequal distribution of educational resources at the secondary level. Officials pat themselves on the back for increasing the number of URMs at their university, however this does not solve the fundamental problem of poor educational conditions in specific segments of the US. Poor education affects ALL races, and must be remedied.

5. Socioeconomic affirmative action (SAA) is moral, race-based affirmative action is not (RAA). As stated earlier, race is not significant in affecting one's academic or career potential. Races being traditionally poorer are in such a position due to socioeconomic circumstances stemming from poverty. Thus, society must cure educational and financial inequality. This has nothing to do with race however, though, since many poorer individuals are from certain races, they will be helped disproportionately. The goal is to improve the socioeconomic status of all individuals, regardless of race, to correct for prior injustices. Rich URMs should not have affirmative action, for they have had every opportunity to succeed, to a greater extent than poor ORMs. Affirmative action is intended to level the playing field, but at the point at which one is able to afford a high quality education and to live comfortably, affirmative action is not necessary.

Conclusion: Races do not differ a priori or in terms of educational and social prowess at a genetic level. Distinctions are made as an unfortunate circumstance due to history, when racism was common. To erase these divisions, society must improve the socioeconomic status of individuals, regardless of race, to improve the quality of life for all. One cannot use an evil (treating people differently based on race), to cure another evil (the racist treatment of groups in the past). And to those who worry that URMs will be left behind, do not fret. Socioeconomic affirmative action will readily prop up poorer individuals, many of whom are grouped within certain races.

Changes from status quo:
1. Rich URMs do not get an advantage in admissions. They have no disadvantage in life according to the arguments outlined above.
2. Poor ORMs have an equal shot at acceptance as anyone else of similar poverty, simply because in my system, since genetics is not a factor in racial behavior, education must be rectified in order for there to be a level playing field. As lower income brackets oftentimes do not have the benefit of a quality education, society must redouble its efforts to improve the quality of education FOR ALL.
3. Reemphasis on fixing the pre-university educational system as to mitigate many of the factors that require the implementation of affirmative action in the first place.
4. Race should not matter at all, and people should be treated as individuals independent of their race.
 
Originally posted by Jamaican MD
Yeah, it looks like I'm gonna have to head over there. . .these people on SDN are SO racist and SO sensitive.

I can't even start a thread without some insecure ORM taking offense! Why don't they just get a freekin' life and give up the race bashing??

If it upsets them so much, STAY OFF THE THREAD!!!

😡

Please don't riot!
 
Originally posted by bigbaubdi

"how bout......the invention of modern math, philosophy, and physics. how bout electricity, the light bulb...vacines...penicilin...the automobile...flight....spacships..."

Your post is astonishingly Eurocentric. I'm not going to waste too much of my energy refuting this however I should point out that much of modern European advancement was based upon the violent subjugation of non white peoples. And of course, all human civilization comes straight out of Africa.

oh for christs sake....the laws of physics are eurocentric? people of non european descent have other equaly suitable alternatives to things like vacines and antibiotics. Asigning tremendous value to these thing is being narrowminded? your ultra pc attitude is a joke.
 
I think I've become mentally ******ed reading this discussion. Please, for the sake of all that is holy, no more AA threads.
 
Originally posted by Gleevec
Changes from status quo:
4. Race should not matter at all, and people should be treated as individuals independent of their race.

I think I see a large pie in the sky.
 
Supadupafly,

Do you have any preferences in the schools you're applying to and I'm curious if you're leaning toward any specialities? I know Columbia and Einstein are thought to be very URM friendly.
 
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