Fear Of Black Pre-Schoolers: Halting The Preschool-To-Prison Pipeline

Black Star News ^ | March 28, 2014 | Professor Travis L. Gosa

[Chode]

there's an awful smell...

[Chode]

their culture is better suited to a Petri-dish...

[mrsmel]

I don’t recall that, but apparently the black males (at least from all outward appearences) received the more positive nurture, for what that’s worth.

I’ll have to look through loads of disorganised bookmarks to find it, but I seem to recall a scientist researcher who blogged (very seldomly) under the name “Lion du Griffe”.

[Paladin2]

So, in this case, the Nurture was negatively correlated with outcome?

[mrsmel]

If what you’re saying is that the apparent higher degree of nurture did not produce a better result, then yes, I agree with that statement.

[raybbr]

It makes no sense to say he is indoctrinated but claim he isn’t ignorant. In order to BE indoctrinated, you have to be ignorant (of opposing views and their rationale, at the very least.)

Huh? I say he DOES know the other side but chooses to believe the side he DOES believe in due to the indoctrination.

Do you really believe he's never been exposed to the other side of this issue? After all those years of schooling?

[Albion Wilde]

This is really sad. Not a word of accountability about no fathers in the home, the effects of careless behavior by the parents, intergenerational poverty on kids, the decline in church attendance, the influence of rap and hip-hop, the drugs in the neighborhoods, etc etc.

I mentored a black child. I visited his house. There were no sheets on the bed, no washing machine, no books. All the children slept on one pee-stained mattress. By the time he was 6, his mother had produced several other children by several different men, and the latest one had killed the baby in the crib and blamed in on the 6-year-old child, who had to undergo police questioning. Wonder how his attitude in school went the next morning?

This is just sad.

[Albion Wilde]

WTF is the difference between "Africana" and "African" Studies

"African" would mean directly tied to Africa, the continent and the cultures therein. "Africana" would mean anything at all involving anything at all involving Africa, no matter how remote. It's a liberalized definition.

[Albion Wilde]

Born and raised in a small mill town in West Virginia, Travis Gosa shares his geographical roots with African-American thinkers such as Booker T. Washington

His perspective could not be more opposite than Booker T. Washington's, a brilliant educator born a slave who believed in hard work and diligence and rose to become a founder of a college and an advisor to presidents, even under segregation. Gosa needs to wash his mouth out with soap for saying his name in the same breath.

[Paladin2]

""African" would mean directly tied to Africa"

Then they should be self-labeled as Africana-Americans.

[Paladin2]

So, where does Teresa Heinz Kerry fit in?

[Paladin2]

"If what you’re saying is that the apparent higher degree of nurture did not produce a better result, then yes, I agree with that statement."

An amazing counter expectation.

The next thesis would be that DNA more than overwhelms nurture in the study.

An Inconvenient Conclusion....

[MeshugeMikey]

“Pop tarts is dangerous”

[MeshugeMikey]

Poor parenting “Amplified” in it’s effects through the generations.

[Albion Wilde]

My history doesn’t have a color associated with it. I am a Virginian, a Southerner, and an American. Skin color plays no role in any of that.

That may be your mantra, and congratulations for such a self-discipline; but it's not your reality. How one is perceived plays a big role in what happens in anyone's life.

[Paladin2]

Recursive losses.

[MeshugeMikey]

Recursive losses.

A very good way to describe the situation.

Not many generations are necessary for all civility to evaporate under such circumstances.

[mrsmel]

Is that anything like an inconvenient truth, only in this case, it’s actually true? Because I believe it’s true, however inconvenient it may be to someone. Just like regression to the mean-inconvenient but true.

[Paladin2]

The question is how to reverse or ameliorate the losses.

The prognosis for same looks to be abysmal.

[Paladin2]

It could be that there are different "figures of merit" for evaluating Nurture. (some of which would be more explanatory - tough perhaps also Inconvenient, in a PC sense)

The alternative explanation would definitely seem to be an "Inconvenient" (tragic and politically incorrect) Truth.