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Not me. I'm saying I got where I am without any of those programs. There is a difference. I couldn't get a PELL Grant or any of those loans, I got passed over for at least one governmental job promotion explicitly because I was a white male. I ended up leaving when I was flat out told that the gubmit agency I worked for was under a mandate to promote more women and "people of color".
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That was me as well. back in the 60s, when women were treated as 2nd class citizens, my mother was the 1st female Fuller Brush salesman, late to become the 1st licensed female Mortgage Broker in the state of FL. a VP at a large, local mortgage company, one of the top private clubs invited her to join, when they found out this VP (her name is Laddie) was a woman, the
"Good Ole Boys" refused to honor it. Now, we have been comped our membership(she still doesn't use it, I do use mine) because of our business. She taught me that no one can keep you down, she lived the part of being held back because she is a she and her resume is very impressive (she also raced SCCA in a 356 Speedster back in the 50s) and never did she let anyone hold her back, and that resume is laced with many 1st. So when some loser talks about life isn't fair, FUCH them, they aren't trying. As for hard working, my dentist, who also happens to be black has 2 offices, about 70 miles apart, that he goes to 6 days a week. He works mornings to early afternnon in a small town, then drives to the other office, opens mid afternoon until 10PM. The reason I started using him was the fact that he does the work in the evenings & weekends, doesn't take prime working time from me. I respect this man for more than one reason, one, as busy as he is, he still makes time to spend with his son, they play Father/Son basketball tournaments and have won state championships, he & I were both at UF around the same time, but until last summer, he drove the same Honda, that he had in college, when the engine started knocking (he had around 500K on it) and his wife (who for years had been wanting him to get rid of it) donated it to Salvation Army. We would talk cars, I remember when he had around 300K, he would talk about buying somthingf else, as these talks continued, I knew, he was just like me, he wanted to see how far that car would take him, and I told him, that he wouldn't part with it until it really broke, he laughed knowing I was right, and if his wife hadn't donated it (it needed a valve job) he would still be driving it today. His wife has 2 very nice new cars, they live in a very nice home in a great river front community, all paid for by hard work. So don't tell me anyone can really hold you back, as the only one who can is yourself!!!! My mother is proof, so was my father, and some of my best friends made it because they were willing to work that mach harder!!! My, I was the coke bottle glasses, uncordnated, average student, skinny runt, but because of how I was raised, I worked hard until I got what I wanted. The best thing to ever happen to me was not to be given anything. A week before my fathjer died, we were sitting on the boat drinking, and he was telling me about how proud he was of me (something he hadn't done much of) as when I started racing BMX, I was a runt, he wouldn't buy me a bike, I had to earn money & build my own, yet I mananged to become sponsored & nationaly ranked, I even went to Eruope on the USA team for this country's honor, in basketball, I was the short white kid with no shot, but I never gave up and always gave my all. The way he say it, I was the one with the least, and sure to fail, but because I just wouldn't give up (and he was sure that I would, and couldn't believe that I never did) I earned is respect, and there is nothing that means more to me than that day, at the club, on the boat,drinking Ashi, that he told me that, and how proud he was of me!! If I can do it, anyone can!!