Posted on 06/27/2011 5:20:25 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
A WOMAN'S leg was broken and several other people were injured Saturday night when a large group of teens accosted pedestrians in Spring Garden, police and witnesses said. Philadelphia police responded to two reports of pedestrians being assaulted by a large group of young people along Broad Street about 9:30 p.m.
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They are also being told to become aware of their “culture”, their “traditions” and their “heritage.” And that those that chose to assimilate are to be castigated and ridiculed (the popular term is “coconuts” - brown on the outside and white on the inside).
Another funny story. There was a Hispanic kid in my first grade class. The teacher addressed him in Spanish, only to receive a blank stare. A couple of days later his dad showed up and GOT INTO the teachers face. Interestingly enough the teacher was a nun. He made it absolutely clear that his son spoke English as good as anyone in class and that it was "insulting" to have her speak to him in Spanish.
Poor kid was being totally deprived of his culture and heritage. Of course I don't feel too sorry for him. He's the CFO of one of the largest energy compaines in the world and makes more money in a month than I make in a year!
Not quite.... tails were lost long before we were a species. Ancestoral apes had no tails (as far as I remember) and all apes have no tails. It is part of the definition of the “ape” family.
“I agree with you, cannot think. I’m white. My wife and I adopted six black kids from Ethiopia. We raised them as we had been raised, that is, as Americans. All have done very well, including being straight A students in high school.
When our three youngest went to high school they were appaled at the ignorance, stupidity and racism exhibited by the typical black student.”
I have spent a great deal of time in sub-Saharan Africa and there are pretty huge tribal differences, just like there are amongst the tribes of Europe. Some are more war like than others, some more agrarian. I met some of the most clever and insightful people in my life in the Zimbabwe bush. Great problem solvers. Could not read a lick. Just because you can’t read doesn’t mean you are not highly intelligent.
The biggest difference I have noticed from my time working in the Black ghettos in the late ‘60s was the lack of concern regarding time. If you think of time as a 4th dimension reflecting the future, the blacks in the ghetto seemed to have little concern, or even appreciation, for anything other than the present.
This interesting fact is also apparent on educational/aptitude tests. It is not vocabulary which tends to separate groups, it is the difference in being able to perform in 3-dimensional space and to project solutions for future or distant problems.
I always suspected this had to due with a lack of seasons where the group evolved. If you don’t have to remember when the floods occur, when the fruit ripens, when and where the migrations happen, then time and trigonometry are not important to your survival. Other skills take precedence.
I also learned about liberal knee jerk reactions, lack of critical thinking and regimented thought. The most liberal people I know did not work or participate in the Civil Rights Movement, they just blather on in almost total ignorance.
Personally, I think we (European-descend civilizations) had the advantages of Greece and Rome and their Phonecian-descended alphabets. They created a tradition of writing and literacy unlike anything in the rest of the world.
In Greece and Rome, every citizen, rich or poor, was expected to have some degree of literacy. Other countries developed forms of writing but literacy was restricted to elite groups like scribes or Mandarins.
If my language required 3000 characters for basic literacy, I’d be illiterate, too.
Of course, that says something scary about modern Chinese...
I don't have one...but I like them.
good public school systems do exist.
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The following is **GENERAL** and applies to ALL government schooling and is NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT directed at any specific individual here on Free Republic.
There are NO good government schools. Why?
Answer: ALL government owned and run schools in this nation are godless in their worldview, socialist-funded, compulsory for all children whose parents can’t ransom them, and managed by the collectivist voting mob.
Children who attend these government schools risk learning to be comfortable with socialism, collectivist, and voter mob compulsion.
As for the godless worldview of **all** government schools, children WILL learn to think and reason godlessly. They MUST learn to think and reason godlessly simply to cooperate with the classroom instruction, use the textbooks, turn in assignments, and abide by the godless school policies.
It's kinda funny that she wants to thank the less violent gang members who knew when to stop.
I think it was George Bush who labeled that generally leftwing sentiment "the soft racism of lowered expectations."
I agree, but the Greeks and Romans were very active in north Africa. It's the same story, the advances of their civilizations were embraced and utilized by some who came in contact with them, and not by others.
And, north Africa was very much a part of the Greek/Roman world and greatly influenced by those civilizations, until the seventh century when another influence began spreading into those areas from the Arabian Peninsula.
But there was no shortage of opportunities for written languages to take root throughout Africa. They just did not spread very far to the south.
Well you can disagree all you want, but what you were asserting was already examined in multiple studies and you would be wrong.
Not only did performance not match up but the IQs were still the normally observed 1.5 standard deviations off.
Here's just one of the more famous studies I'm aware of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption_Study#Results
Don't just hint at it. Tell us what you specifically find to be in error in his post. Then we can fact check it against known history and available psychometrics studies and see who is right.
Of course it doesn't, but there's a difference between statistical averages and anecdote.
In other words, Spring Garden is a neighborhood that is just stuffed with potential victims for these feral creatures.
Do you have any from Sub-Saharan Africa that didn't have contact with Mediterranean cultures?
http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=Spring+Garden+mob
In other words, Spring Garden is a neighborhood that is just stuffed with potential victims for these feral creatures.
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Yep!
When the kids were young, my husband and I would take them to the Natural History Museum, Franklin Institute, Rodin Museum, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and the Philadelphia Art Museum. All are within a few blocks of Broad St. and Spring Garden. The kids also loved taking the elevator to the top of Billy Penn’s hat that graced City Hall. Occasionally, I would comment to my husband that in a city that was so black why was it that we only saw white people?
Family memberships, good for a full year, are very very reasonable. In some cases the cost of a family membership is **less** than taking the family to the movies. I would bet my entire 401 K that families on welfare could get a family pass for free. It is a shame that these black children are missing out on so much. Yet....When my kids are accepted into college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13, and two graduate with B.S. degrees in math at 18, they are called “lucky”. Well! Gee! It did take some effort.
You forgot the “sarc” tag. :-)
I found **two** links on Google. Pitiful!
Correlation is the means by which we reason to causation.
It's raining therefore I know it causes the sidewalk to be wet. Why? Because it always correlates. I have no other means to deduce it.
Correlation isn't always causation. But enough correlations and you have your cause as best as human reasoning is capable of determining.
What? Do you want me to believe against all common sense and known science that genetics doesn't miraculously end at the neck up as has been asserted for the last 60 years?
When you use good experimental controls,
you can eliminate the correlation = causation error.
Like someone else proposed, let’s examine how “black” kids turn out when raised in a “white” culture. If they are not statistically different than the “white” average in achievement, that disproves the genetic causative factor.
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