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pnwmom

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42. So what? Social science assistant/associate professors WITH FELLOWSHIPS

Sun Jun 30, 2019, 12:33 AM

Jun 2019

are paid more in fancy titles than they are in actual salaries. And he wasn't living with them, so he was sending them some kind of child support payment. The fact that they didn't officially divorce for a while means nothing.

And where did you get the idea that she got her PHD in 1963? The average college graduate, assuming nothing slows them down, finishes at age 22. That would be 1960, if you are correct about her being born in 1938. And then the average PhD takes 8 years. (And she had 2 babies during her her college/grad school years).

How many PhD's do you think get their degrees in 3 years? Almost NONE.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/12-reasons-not-to-get-a-phd/

1. A PhD takes twice as long as a bachelor's degree to complete. The average student takes 8.2 years to slog through a PhD program and is 33 years old before earning that top diploma. By that age, most Americans with mere bachelor's degree are well into establishing themselves professionally.

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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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"Redlining" forced black Berkeley residents like Kamala's family to live west of MLK Way. [View all] pnwmom Jun 2019 OP

Oh but we are told that segregation is illegal. guillaumeb Jun 2019 #1

Harris grew up in Montreal - her mother moved there when she was 12 years old. George II Jun 2019 #2

"Redlining" restricted home ownership, and was in play in the 1940s and 1950s RHMerriman Jun 2019 #3

Wrong. The Fair Housing Act banned discrimination in sales and rentals of housing, pnwmom Jun 2019 #4

Rumford Act passed in California in 1963, and affirmed by the state Supreme Court in 1965. RHMerriman Jun 2019 #8

Yes, they were affected by racism in their housing and school choices. And it's disheartening to me pnwmom Jun 2019 #10

How, exactly? RHMerriman Jun 2019 #12

Her mother was single by the time Kamala was in school, and still in grad school, pnwmom Jun 2019 #14

Her father was full-time faculty at Illinois in 1966, same year he graduated from Cal... RHMerriman Jun 2019 #16

When my husband was on the faculty of a comparable public university 13 years LATER pnwmom Jun 2019 #22

Apparently the Harrises were still married until 1970-71, at which point RHMerriman Jun 2019 #36

So what? Social science assistant/associate professors WITH FELLOWSHIPS pnwmom Jun 2019 #42

According to the source linked here: RHMerriman Jun 2019 #43

You know much too little about this topic to try to lord over anyone about it, much less get snarky StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #18

+ 1000 tishaLA Jun 2019 #21

Apparently not... RHMerriman Jun 2019 #37

You are glossing over how redlining worked and how hard it was to stop it. Blue_true Jun 2019 #35

Any evidence that either of the senator's parents - Dr. Goyalan or Dr. Harris - were unable to buy RHMerriman Jun 2019 #41

Bingo. ucrdem Jun 2019 #7

It's sure as hell not Hunter's Point or Watts, either... RHMerriman Jun 2019 #9

Yes. ucrdem Jun 2019 #11

Really impressive, that having two PHd parents, one of which we KNOW was employed RHMerriman Jun 2019 #13

Yep. ucrdem Jun 2019 #15

Nope. RHMerriman Jun 2019 #17

And it's not Richmond/San Pablo either, where I spent some time. 58Sunliner Jun 2019 #51

Redlining was taking place into the 1990s. Blue_true Jun 2019 #34

Than how was she bused as a young child? Demsrule86 Jun 2019 #5

She was living in Berkeley UNTIL she was 12. That's where she was bused. n/t pnwmom Jun 2019 #6

I see... doesn't really matter I guess...she won't get my support in a primary...general sure but Demsrule86 Jun 2019 #19

Her local school board voted unanimously to approve integrating schools and implemented the emmaverybo Jun 2019 #31

Okay. IluvPitties Jun 2019 #20

Because many here have been trying to argue that Kamala's story of having to be bused pnwmom Jun 2019 #23

No, no one argued that. nt ucrdem Jun 2019 #24

Lots of people argued that, including right here. n/t pnwmom Jun 2019 #26

Where exactly? ucrdem Jun 2019 #27

We're not supposed to call out people. Just read through the responses here. n/t pnwmom Jun 2019 #28

Outside your threads I don't see any such claims. nt ucrdem Jun 2019 #29

I'm talking about some of the responses to my threads. n/t pnwmom Jun 2019 #30

No one has denied that she was bused. The issue is whether it was federally mandated. ucrdem Jun 2019 #32

I get that. IluvPitties Jun 2019 #25

No. But whether the federal government should have a say in local civil rights enforcement is StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #40

Actually, it also looks like Kamala will need to answer why R B Garr Jun 2019 #47

Her story implied that she was bused under federally mandated law, which Biden had opposed. emmaverybo Jun 2019 #33

Some of Biden's anti-busing legislation didn't affect only court-ordered busing StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #38

Apparently it didn't, according to Kamala's own example. nt R B Garr Jun 2019 #48

The senator also has glossed over the reality she lived a privileged life RHMerriman Jun 2019 #39

Nobody implied that. Biden's are gunner was local desegregation was ok with him. hedda_foil Jun 2019 #44

I don't question her reasons for supporting federally mandated busing, but she emmaverybo Jun 2019 #45

She never claimed she benefitted from court-orderd busing StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #49

She implied it. Otherwise, why use herself as an example to personalize an attack on his vote emmaverybo Jun 2019 #53

It's exactly what I said StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #54

No. Berkley school board would have done it. I am not talking about any other locality or state. emmaverybo Jun 2019 #55

Do you know what Biden' amendment said and what it would have done? StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #56

I am not arguing his anti-busing support. She misrepresented herself. Period. NT emmaverybo Jun 2019 #57

You can keep saying that until your batteries run out StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #58

Could that amendment have included compromises? treestar Jun 2019 #60

Biden's amendment didn't include any compromises. It was a straight up prohibition. StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #62

I wonder why she didn't just leave that out and stick to treestar Jun 2019 #59

Biden tried to stop the kinda of programs that Harris participated in StarfishSaver Jun 2019 #61

I don't expect Biden to recall things by the day treestar Jul 2019 #63

Ok StarfishSaver Jul 2019 #64

Has Kamala ever talked about being redlined? R B Garr Jun 2019 #46

You can be part of a movement and still get fucked over. RandySF Jun 2019 #50

It just seems there would be some history/awareness that they were redlined even R B Garr Jun 2019 #52