Posted on 08/26/2013 7:12:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s 2013 and there is a black dorm at Berkeley?
Yes. My daughter (Berkeley student) tells me music blasts out of there at full volume 24/7.
With that said, there are VERY few black students at Berkeley and they are desperate to import more.
I see many similar comparisons between the imposition of socialist-entitlement and single-payer Obamacare and socialist-entitlement K-12 schooling.
And...The same arguments used with schooling such as, “Gee! If we could go back to the ole K-12 system,,”, will be used with socialist and single-payer helathcare.
yeah...I bet other races feel soooooo welcome in the black dorm. They’re allowed to segregate themselves, then wonder why they’re not included in other groups. Simply NOT amazing, I’m sure the idea is to boost confidence (have “like” peers around you) but it will have the opposite effect....as usual with liberal policies.
It's worse than that. Average black IQ is 80 vs 100 for whites. 80% of blacks have a lower IQ than the average white person. This is why blacks will never be represented in the professions in numbers proportional to their presence in the general population. Per capita, far more blacks than whites lack the raw talent to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to enter those professions. Telling them to work harder is a lot like telling elite white athletes to keep plugging away at winning the 100m sprint at the Olympics.
I'd argue that your problem employees would have flunked out of those schools. Effort is a wonderful thing, but there's no substitute for native intelligence when it comes to technical fields.
calling any student who is not Cal Berkeley material Cal Berkeley material, does not make him so...
as a homeschooling momma, i had my oldest son take pre-algebra two years in a row even though he averaged a "C" the first year... i could not see him moving on to something more difficult without having mastered what was basic to the next level...it was one of the best decisions i have made in regards to his schooling... the following year he aced it and has excelled in mathematics since... i know that math is developmental... the first year he was not ready to grasp it at his full potential...
California has two College systems:
University System : Berkeley, UCLA, Irvine, Santa Barbara, etc.
"State Colleges" : Cal State Long Beach, Cal State Fullerton, Cal State San Diego, etc.
I was referring to those schools when I said "state colleges"
In general the "State colleges" do not offer PhD programs and have less stringent entrance requirements , while the Universities do have PhD programs and are more difficult to enter.
To confuse issues even further: The official name of Long beach State is: California State University at Long Beach.
But no one, including the alumnae (I am one), call it that. We call it: Cal State Long Beach.
Quite possibly so, but if he had failed out, then he would not have had the elevated expectations of supposedly having MS level credentials, and being incapable of doing the work.
This is the problem with AA as practiced today....it is in reality a "performance reduced" quota system. The same as are women in the military, police, fire occupations.
AA as originally postulated was "supposed" to be based on testing all applicants "equally" and not artificially failing those that happened to be of a higher melanin content.....if it had ever been done that way, then it would have been a great positive.
Deval Patrick is another one...
calling any student who is not Cal Berkeley material Cal Berkeley material, does not make him so...
I apologize. I should have worded that better.
I would like to borrow that phrase for awhile in my tagline
I think I will change my son's name to Keshawn. I/we have a very common last name similar to many African American sport players.
My(Caucasian) son keeps a straight A average in high school. Maybe he could get a free ride into Berkley, Harvard or MIT.
Where does Cal Tech fall into the mix?
Isn’t supposed to be harder to get in than MIT?
A lot of blacks have a vastly-inflated sense of their personal abilities. This is why so many cry racism at the drop of a hat. They are not playing mind games. They do in fact think that they are putting out superior effort and results, and any failure to reward them for these outstanding efforts constitutes racism.
The tragic figure in this story is not Kashawn. It’s the unknown Asian-American kid from Fremont with a straight-A average and very high test scores whose place at Berkeley was taken away by the self-righteous administrators, who admitted Kashawn instead to fill their quota.
That kid will go to another UC school, get good grades, a degree, and likely follow the same path he would have.
The tragedy is that Kashawn would have followed a far brighter path in life if admitted to the right school. (I honestly thought this article was going to end in suicide - but that’s more of an Asian thing than a black thing, because suicide requires self-blame, and in the worst of black culture, blame is always externalized.)
What a sad waste of everybody’s time and money. Liberalism has a lot to answer for.
If ya work it right ya might get Tuition and a BIG BONUS!!
That kid has been nurtured and prepared to be a failure. If he were to actually become educated he might just be able to walk off the plantation. And that cannot be tolerated.
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Which school, so we can avoid it?
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