"Shall we make the usual bet?"
Posted on 01/11/2014 6:09:14 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
A new report from the Schott Foundation reveals that only 47 percent of black male students earn a high school diploma on time. Ironically, this report came out shortly after Judge Vaughn Walker ruled regarding Proposition 8 in California. If the statements on which Judge Walker based his ruling are "facts," how do we explain what is happening educationally to boys in the black community where a large majority are growing up without fathers?
Nancy Pearcey, in an article on American Thinker, identified certain "facts that Judge Walker claims are now established by the 'evidence' presented in his courtroom." Those "facts" presumably will be deemed as "truth" far beyond the courtroom. Among those "facts," the following three are especially relevant for young black boys' futures:
• "Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage."
• "The gender of a child's parent is not a factor in a child's adjustment."
• "Having both a male and a female parent does not increase the likelihood that a child will be well-adjusted."
Those three general false principles that Judge Walker supposedly established in his arguments in favor of so-called "same-sex marriage" are equally faulty when applied to the more than 40 percent of today's children who are born to single mothers. They are doubly relevant when the majority of those children are black.
Here are some irrefutable facts that Judge Walker and his ilk need to ponder.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Yes it is, because it goes against what every American has been taught....that any person can lift himself up through hard work and dedication. And it was assumed that all Americans were the same, and the only ones not achieving were being held back by racism and/or poverty.
Well, as it turns out in Realityville, some people can't be helped. There is such a thing as IQ, and no amount of "good schools" and inducements i.e. wealth redistribution will change that.
I guess the only good new is that about half the black population can be salvaged. The lower half can't...simply too stupid. Sterilize the black underclass, and in twenty years many cities will be livable again without the black underclass terrorizing other Americans. A hard and horrible truth, but the truth nevertheless.
A large factor in a person’s IQ is mental stimulation while young. If these same kids were raised in different homes their IQ would be different.
A large factor in a person’s IQ is mental stimulation while young. If these same kids were raised in different homes their IQ would be different.
“What is bred in the bone will out.”
~~Old Irish Proverb
"Shall we make the usual bet?"
Welfare and feminism made black women the breadwinners, either from government largesse or affirmative action for women/minorities. Black men consider jobs as chauffeurs, busboys, orderlies, and janitors beneath them. Mexicans now do the jobs unschooled Americans won’t. The manufacturing jobs that once allowed uneducated men to support their families are gone. And most important, there has been a turning away from God and church and virtue.
-— Well, as it turns out in Realityville, some people can’t be helped. There is such a thing as IQ -—
The value of innate intelligence and formal schooling is overestimated, while the value of moral instruction is vastly underrated, especially with regard to employability.
It’s hard to find humble, hard-working, entry-level workers.
What inner-city black youths are deprived of is the moral instruction of fathers.
For example:
Look at the New York Times section that advertises summer camps. There are camps that **willingly** seek to serve children with the most difficult health, intelectual, and physical challenges. There are also camps for gifted children.
If all education in this nation were privately provided and all government compulsion to attend removed much of the social pathology that we see in the cities would, within two generations, greatly improve.
Dr. Canada, the principal featured in “Waiting for Superman” said, “ It isn't the neighborhood that makes the schools bad. It is the SCHOOLS that make the NEIGHBORHOOD bad!” ( paraphrasing). I believe he is completely correct.
Gee! I wish FR had an edit option. “intellectual” has two Ls!
Not significantly, according to The Bell Curve. (Read it if you dare.)
Some do not want to learn
Some cannot learn
Some refuse to be taught
Wanton ignorance, as a tactic in a culture war.
-— Some do not want to learn
Some cannot learn
Some refuse to be taught -—
It has ever been thus. What’s different is 40% of black children being raised without fathers as a result of Great Society programs.
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Why would young black women select the most suitable mate? Men respond to the desires of women on an instinctive level. If young black women in America needed to be more selective in order to secure the best possible future for thier offspring, then perhaps they would demand a higher caliber male. If that natural system had not been interupted by the state, you would have more motivated young black men.
“It’s a funny thing how the “legacy of slavery” (i.e., high illegitimacy, weak or no marriages) didn’t kick in until the 1960s”
So I guess MLK was “acting white”?
I agree. The better blacks (or any group) do, the better for us all. I want blacks to graduate, get jobs, get married, and have families. I want them to succeed. When they don’t, we all pay for it.
THE EDUCATION OF MINORITY CHILDREN©
by Thomas Sowell
Will Rogers once said that it was not ignorance that was so bad but, as he put it, “all the things we know that ain’t so.” Nowhere is that more true than in American education today, where fashions prevail and evidence is seldom asked or given. And nowhere does this do more harm than in the education of minority children.
The quest for esoteric methods of trying to educate these children proceeds as if such children had never been successfully educated before, when in fact there are concrete examples, both from history and from our own times, of schools that have been sucessful in educating children from low-income families and from minority families. Yet the educational dogma of the day is that you simply cannot expect children who are not middle-class to do well on standardized tests, for all sorts of sociological and psychological reasons.
Those who think this way are undeterred by the fact that there are schools where low-income and minority students do in fact score well on standardized tests. These students are like the bumblebees who supposedly should not be able to fly, according to the theories of aerodynamics, but who fly anyway, in disregard of those theories.
While there are examples of schools where this happens in our own time— both public and private, secular and religious— we can also go back nearly a hundred years and find the same phenomenon. Back in 1899, in Washington, D. C., there were four academic public high schools— one black and three white.1 In standardized tests given that year, students in the black high school averaged higher test scores than students in two of the three white high schools.2
http://www.tsowell.com/speducat.html
Mr. Sowell has a lot to say on the subject and presents a lot of facts. Interesting.
Now, the big question....what do we do about it? It’s not like we can go back and magically add a father to all those having problems today.
What we do about it is pretty simple...in theory though politically difficult...
Done over a period of time...
Reform the welfare state...not aggressively, but in incremental steps..
1. Incentives for poor women with children to get married, by giving them better benefits for a short period of time...like three years...put pressure on the baby daddies to man up...
2. Cut off additional benefits after two kids...cut the money off and they will close their legs to pump out more state money...
3. Reform the criminal system...way too many young blacks are getting criminal records on basically minor crimes like drug possession...cuts them off from the job market...
4. School vouchers in the inner city...the parents of blacks youth who actually want to get their kids out of horrible schools have a chance to be educated...
Until the "Great Society" black families basically had the same level of negative statistics as whites, out of birth rate, criminal stats, illiterate rate...etc....
You are right, the war on poverty turned out to be a war on fathers and minorities, especially blacks. If the black community had real leaders instead of con men lining their pockets they would be promoting things like you are to better the communities.
This country better wake up because now it is not just a black problem. The issues of fatherless children and people using social programs instead of jobs to live now crosses racial lines. Many Caucasians are following in the footsteps down the wrong path. Hispanics are on social programs in large numbers, though most of them are illegals- which is another serious problem we need to address, and the solution is not amnesty so they can get even more money on the dole.
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