Posted on 07/10/2009 9:08:47 PM PDT by neverdem
.....a main cornerstone of the anglo-european/judeo-christian culture is it’s reverence for education...not all cultures share that trait.
When the Asian young college students do better than their white counterparts, one doesn't hear DISCRIMINATION because we know that their culture values education and strives to learn. Again, what's the deal here?
Are these people saying that blacks can't learn? or black’s have an entitlement feeling, and won't learn.... this isn't a generalization... only this particular group of firefighters.... let's all a spade a spade for a change... instead of dumbing down everything to the lowest demonimator of a third world country so everyone can feel equal in being stupid.
I’ve dealt with many of the race hustlers, and they don’t give a flip whether anyone can actually perform a job duty. They operate on the premise that the job will get done regardless of the qualifications of the individuals performing it.
From what I understand, they're discriminated against more than just about anyone, as most of the orientals have never gotten into the race baiting industry. If some of the stats I've read are accurate, they would compose about 70% of the graduate students in the hard sciences in California colleges if the colleges didn't discriminate against them.
That is so true. And so sad. I have been to homes of white meth heads and addicts and people who have chickens running thru the trailer, and there is still pride when little junior brings home an A. Some black homes? An aversion to it. Things are changing as more and more blacks hit middle class status, but IMHO, blacks have to address this “acting white” thing that too many black kids do to the other black kids that are trying to get ahead. This is not something white America can fix. Bill Cosby says about the same thing, FWIW.
parsy, who calls it like he sees it.
I worked with a young Spanish kid once who had graduated from High School and could not read. I asked him how he passed all the test and he said his teacher read all the questions to him and he answered them verbally.
This is not a true statement. A majority of the large public schools are predominantly black. Many of the major cities in the Midwest and northeast are almost exclusively black or at least black and Hispanic. In many of these systems the amount of white students is less than 10%.
The whites have generally abandoned the inner cities or at least the inner city schools. The blacks also have the largest amount of out of wedlock births at 70% +, this is more than twice the rate of white out of wedlock births. These are problems in the Black society. This leads to a massive amount of under performance in all aspects of the Black society. The problem is self inflicted. But it is a problem none the less.
Wow! I’m impressed. The University of Texas agreed to let me in if I promised not to tell anyone.
I read a paper a while back about the success of a program to increase the number of black doctors. The basic conclusion was that individuals who had scored at least 900 on the SAT were more likely to make it through medical school than those who had not.
I ask you, WTH is any medical school doing admitting students with SAT scores well below the national average???
I realize the med school doesn’t see the SAT but I know enough about this business to tell you that the chance of someone with a 900 or less SAT having good MCAT scores is slim to none.
Powerful article.
Hey, if you genuinely care to know what accounts for these differences, consult the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. The illustrious preacher has a sound (!) thesis on this subject.
Were you able to find the Stats on Obama’s grades? Oh, that is right, nobody has.
Speaking from personal experience here: when you don’t have good grades in college, this means you haven’t mastered the material, and if you haven’t mastered the material you can’t possibly have a basis with which to learn the far more difficult material offered in med school. You need that basis or you aren’t going to absorb the subject matter that physicians need to know! How people with no background can successfully sit for their exams, I don’t know. It’s very troubling. Do they flunk out, or are they passed along? Do state boards and specialty boards pass them, too?
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