A hot year or two ago, Manny Madriaga himself did a deep dive on the uni game, sussing out the levels of racism and who was getting aired, you get me. Here’s the lowdown, no long talk.
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The whole “widening access” ting is a scam. The system’s moving like they’re colour-blind, chatting about “disadvantage” but never saying the word “race”. Real talk, it’s a front that just helps the same old faces and keeps things the way they are.
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Don’t get it twisted when they say we’re all getting into uni. They’ll flash stats saying bare students of colour are in higher education, but that’s a myth, fam. They’re shipping us to any old uni, while the top-tier ones like Oxbridge are still a closed shop for the mandem. It’s peak.
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They switched the whole narrative, you get me? Suddenly it’s all “rah, what about the poor white boys?”. The paper says this is a mad distraction to stop people talking about the actual racism holding Black and Asian kids back from getting into the best places.
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So who’s winning? Trust me, it ain’t us. At the end of the day, white applicants are still getting the offers from the big-name unis way more than us, even when the grades are matching. The system’s rigged, simple as.
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Allow the fake talk, we need real moves. The paper’s saying we need to stop pretending race ain’t a thing. We need proper, targeted help – like what Stormzy did, but on a bigger level – to actually fix this mess and level the playing field.
Reframing race and widening access into higher education, Manny Madriaga