The NAACP regularily honors pop culture artists but nothing much beyond that. They did honor Condi Rice this year but generally seem reluctant to highlight real achievement.
Lets add a few helpers to this growing self incriminating cancer that seems to be conceniently overlooked.
1. Enforce discipine to these schools.
2. Add teachers who no what discipine is!
3. Enforce a dress code that makes all wear cloths that are not siding off their A----S.
4. Correct the language barrier by forcing English with out the Cursing and slang.
5. Teach them they are not slaves, were never slaves, and never will be.
6. Teach them not to wait around for reparations. Tell them they must put food on the table in another manner.
7. Teach them the World owes them nothing.
8. Teach them they owe the world after all the years spent trying to make responsible adults out of them.
9. Teach them you break the law you go to jail. You do not go simply because of your skin color.
10. Teach them to ignore organizations that teach and live in the past.
If it wouldn't have been for slavery some of these bottom feeders wouldn't have anything to do and they'd starve to death. Find another, more realistic occupation
Every student can increase achievement with a personal increase in study time. Why is this usually left off of the ways to decrease the achievement gap?
Another reason to admire President Bush with his belief in personal responsibility.