how can it be racist when even old Chief SOHCAHTOA can do it???
Posted on 02/27/2015 5:35:37 PM PST by Steelfish
Trigonometry Is Racist! KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON February 27, 2015
An African-American scholar says that emphasis on STEM education is bad for blacks. Earlier today on Sirius XM Urban View, an African-American talk station, the guest was Daryl Scott, president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
The conversation turned to STEM — science, technology, engineering, and math — education, and the origins of the ongoing push to encourage institutions and students to focus on those subjects. Can you guess what happened?
In 1983, the guest explained, a commission empaneled by the secretary of education issued a report titled “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform.” In a memorable phrase, it warned of “a rising tide of mediocrity” in the nation’s public schools. That phrase, he said, was a “euphemism.” A euphemism for what? “For us — for African Americans.” There is nothing that happens in these United States that will not be impugned as secret racism. Nothing.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
me too
Amen! Mastering trigonometry made me valuable until AutoCAD rendered me useless...until I mastered AutoCAD, of course.
how can it be racist when even old Chief SOHCAHTOA can do it???
Is that a reference to Sin Cos Tan?
Oscar Had A Hairy Old Ass(et)
There you go, off on a tangent...
Yes SOH= Sin, Opposite/Hypotenuse, CAH+ Cos, Adjacent/Hypotenuse, TOA= Tan, Opposite/Adjacent
There weren’t any blacks in my high school (and most of the nearby districts too). I’m sure this is true of many schools. And there are more where blacks are a minority. If the publics schools are mediocre, it’s not just about the blacks.
(In any triangle with a right angle...the sin of an angle is the opposite side of the angle divided by the hypotenuse of the angle...etc...)
Here’s something from Allen West ... and don’t be calling Allen West a racist! ... :-) ... and here’s a “take-away quote” for ya!
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My experience has also taught me that blacks are different by almost any measure to all other people. They cannot reason as well. They cannot communicate as well. They cannot control their impulses as well. They are a threat to all who cross their paths, black and non-black alike.
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The following is the article from Allen West. He refers you over to the full article, which you’ll have to click on the link he supplies you with, to read it. It’s well worth it!
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Quite possibly the most racist article you will ever read
http://allenbwest.com/2014/12/quite-possibly-racist-article-will-ever-read/
Every now and then you come across an article that folks just need to read. This one written by Michael Smith entitled, “Confessions of a Public Defender” and originally posted at American Renaissance on May 9, 2014 is one of those articles.
It is a profound and deeply disturbing piece, which, as we end 2014, we all need to comprehend as we move towards the 50th anniversary of the Great Society initiatives of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Smith articulates that which ails the black community — the real discussion we should be having on race, not that of victimhood and the further expansion of the welfare nanny-state.
He begins by saying, “I am a public defender in a large southern metropolitan area. Fewer than ten percent of the people in the area I serve are black but over 90 per cent of my clients are black. The remaining ten percent are mainly Hispanics but there are a few whites.”
“I have no explanation for why this is, but crime has racial patterns. Hispanics usually commit two kinds of crime: sexual assault on children and driving under the influence. Blacks commit many violent crimes but very few sex crimes. The handful of whites I see commit all kinds of crimes. In my many years as a public defender I have represented only three Asians, and one was half black.”
He presents his observations based on his personal experience with black defendants, and his words will no doubt inflame many:
My experience has also taught me that blacks are different by almost any measure to all other people. They cannot reason as well. They cannot communicate as well. They cannot control their impulses as well. They are a threat to all who cross their paths, black and non-black alike.
It will take you only 5 minutes to read this article — and I would bet you’ll read it again. Then ask yourself, is this something you hear Al Sharpton addressing? Or President Obama, Eric Holder, Jeh Johnson or Jesse Jackson?
I’m quite sure the progressive socialist left will criticize me for sharing this article – that’s just who they are – they hate the truth. But if there is a war to be fought, it is for the soul of the inner city and the black community. The facts and observations in this are not shocking to me. They are quite well known, but the manner in which the writer so eloquently presents them is quite commendable.
We cannot begin to “have a conversation about race” until we are willing to honestly address the facts.
As Smith says at the end, “I do know that it is wrong to deceive the public. Whatever solutions we seek should be based on the truth rather than what we would prefer was the truth.”
Even math is racist. It’s a sine of the times.
DiffEQ was the washout class.
AH!
They should have taught it that way in my Geometry class.
It is amazing what tips the scales of learning...I struggled with math until one day in geometry when I understood everything, I went on to be a math major. It was the “white light” of learning that B.F. Skinner described.
I passed DiffEQ like a monkey answers the problem of 2+3=5. can give the answer but doesn’t know why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0OHaAlrFzc
Gary Allan
What would Willie Do?
They don’t know what they’re unleashing. It’ll reach the point where the money is not worth it; certainly in Ferguson, where Sharpton was warned to keep his distance, foreshadowing of such was evident.
And the NOI are themselves “Islamic hustlers” doing the same thing, albeit with different eschatological outlook.
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