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.
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Uh-huh. Tell us more about signs, co-signs and tangerines, Reverend Al.
Nice Tom Lehrer reference.
Yeah, I’m that old.
So .... he's inferring the phrase "rising tide of mediocrity" to mean black failure. Not failure on all fronts, but black failure.
Talk about a Freudian slip.
How many black, er, I mean African American students are capable of excelling? Just as many (proportionately speaking) as whites? Asians? Surely the same, right?
If they think they can make money off it, damn right they think it's bigotry --- or something.
These clowns are just hustlers and they don't give a damn about black kids.
Unbelievable. Everybody needs to focus on technology now, everybody. It isn’t racism, it’s our future.
I deem them similar to the Islamic hustlers selling the twisted hatred of Jews in Israel.
Unfortunatly, due to the equal outcome mentality, as opposed to equal opportunity, those who take the harder academic route will not get the better jobs! After all, it’s “racist” to be selected because you are quaalified to do the job because of knowledgs, work ethic, etc.
Ship them all back.
I am not so sure that all of them want everything to work. I have had people tell me directly, that they didn't really care how bad things got in America, as long as white people got hurt by it.
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I thought that was from the Onion.
Angle sounds too much like “Anglo” (white honky) which is demeaning to African-Americans, not to mention Latino’s .....
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So what?
An odd idea flitted through my mind, as I read the original article.
If I were raising children today, I would make sure they mastered the following:
cursive handwriting, math calculation by hand, know how to use a slide rule, operate a manual typewriter, understand the dewey decimal system, know the basic rules of logic, and economics.
Then some shop, home ec, and ag and animal husbandry classes would be also helpful, as well as basic double entry bookkeeping, and how to balance a checkbook..
There would be time for the classics, of course, and a good knowledge of iambic pentameter, with maybe some parsing for good measure.
I know - just my basic high school education from back in the 50s.
Perhaps if the teacher’s unions and the school boards hadn’t watered down the curricula and the standards of discipline, the students could learn something useful and build upon that foundation throughout their education.
I was there to see the start of this. When I was attending a pretty tough engineering school MANY years ago, the school made a great effort to enroll minorities from “urban” environments. It was heartbreaking to see young adults (that’s what they were them, not “youths” or “teenagers”) who had been valedictorians and straight A students fail spectacularly in spite of heroic efforts to tutor them. There was just no way to undo 13 years of the insidious racism of low expectations, exposure to bottom of the barrel public school teaching, and a mediocre peer group in three months. Most dropped out and were probably worse off then when they got the scholarships.
Were you trying to pass it off as a real person saying that, or as humor? The conversation is about a serious topic.
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