Heather Mac Donald is a great reporter and analyst. Her reports on immigration and gang violence are the best out there.
So this kids butt is parked at the racist UC-Berkeley where he obviously did not belong instead of learning a trade?
This kid is not going to magically become something he isn’t. Just because his public school pretended he was a genius doesn’t make him one.
He should have been a Plumbers Assistant or something. Probably even be employed by now.
It's 2013 and there is a black dorm at Berkeley?
It takes a case study to confirm what most people know instinctively; that placing a poor student in an academically stringent arena, where he or she is doomed to fail, is of no benefit to anybody.
But somehow, the progs expect magic to occur, and our hapless underachiever will become a scholastic wunderkind overnight.
(sigh)
Sounds like Michelle Obama's thesis at Princeton!
In a sane world the high school that gave this boy A’s should be audited and the administration sacked.
“Sometimes we feel like we’re not wanted on campus,” Kashawn said, surrounded at a dinner table by several of his dorm mates, all of them nodding in agreement. “It’s usually subtle things, glances or not being invited to study groups. Little, constant aggressions.”
The victimology runs deep. Incredibly sad. The race-baiters nave been extremely successful. If you fail at what you do or are dissatisfied of your station in life, it’s always somebody else’s fault. In this case, it’s the “racists” on campus.
“Sometimes we feel like we’re not wanted on campus,” Kashawn said, surrounded at a dinner table by several of his dorm mates, all of them nodding in agreement. “It’s usually subtle things, glances or not being invited to study groups. Little, constant aggressions.”
I had similar problems and I am White. I was ignorant of a lot of knowledge that others had already accumulated but not being of a “privileged” minority I had no one to blame but myself.
I had to earn my way through school....wonder who paid for Kashawn and his friends.
The following anecdote attributed (perhaps apocryphally) to Abe Lincoln takes the form of a riddle:
q. How many legs does a horse have, if you call a tail a leg?
When someone replies “five” he is corrected with:
“No, it is still four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
And calling a black student Cal/Berkeley material does not make him so.
In grade school, we HAD to diagram sentences and do all the other writing and reading assignments in order to pass to the next grade. Failing a class was VERY much a possibility.
If schools have dropped THIS approach in favor of something ‘kinder’ for students... then they are just putting off the hard work, disappointment and emotional let-down to a later date.
The optimum time to learn these basics is in grade school and it is a tremendous disservice to young people (who ever they are) to pass students without an understanding of this.
pockmarked with misplaced words and odd phrases”
RACIST!
Simply being an intellectual Pygmy doesn’t nean another one of these low performers can’t grow up to be mayor of a big city, a state governor, a senator, US president or first lady.
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 UK's left-wing Guardian on the phenomenon, back in 2000:
The poor academic and economic achievement of black people is often blamed on low self-esteem, the result of discrimination from birth and endless negative stereotypes. But the most definitive study on the subject now contradicts this belief: black teenagers do not have lower self-esteem than whites, but higher. Anti-racism campaigners claim that the report suggests there is even more discrimination against blacks than previously thought.In an article in the US journal Psychological Bulletin, an African-American psychologist shows that whatever the effects of racism, poor self-esteem is not one of them. Except for the very young and very rich, blacks have higher self-esteem than their white counterparts, she demonstrates, and have had for years.
UC Berkeley (and others) is not for everyone, Keshawn included.
Two years at a JC probably could have better prepared him for a four year state college, which is not as demanding as a UC.
When we visited colleges last year for my daughter in VA we had student tour guides. At one school, the guide was a black 22 year old Junior. He said, “dis be my dorm”, he said “yo” a lot and other broken ghetto speak.
We broke ranks in the middle of the tour and went on to the next college.
When I was in college, I remember a person who got a D in organic chemistry and went to another college and got a B. All schools are the not same. Berkeley is a very competitive school and only students who meet the real qualifications should be admitted. There are many levels of colleges, and there are community colleges. From what I have read, the California public school system is poor and even poorer if you are a minority. Obviously, this young man was not prepared by his high school experience for Berkeley. Is the problem the young man’s lack of ability, his education, or a combination of both? I have no idea.
But the point is that it is sadistic to put someone in a top college just because of their race. Liberals think they are being “good”. Sadly, the non qualified students have a very hard time and are much more likely to drop out. And these students take the place of much more qualified students. The liberal mindset is disordered and harms people in so, so many ways.
So what happened to Kashawn?................
The most glaring example is one Barack Hussein Obama II, an unaccomplished narcissist elected to the highest public office in the land. Congratulations America...what an embarrassment.
Looks like the South was way ahead of the power curve on this one, except for the title. They called it "Segregation".