Ricci and the Skills Gap - What leads to unequal results between blacks and whites isn’t racism.

City Journal ^ | 7 July 2009 | Heather Mac Donald

[wintertime]

It’s hard for me to feel bad for them when they’ve been bringing it on themselves with this sense of entitlement.
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If you are speaking collectively of the affirmative action industry I agree with you.

But...Yes, I do feel sorry for these individual black students. A cruel trick has been played on them by their high school and college counselors, by the race hustlers pressuring the medical schools, and by the medical school that has capitulated to the pressure.

For the individual black student who is accepted to medical school, it takes real effort and above average intelligence to achieve the GPA and MCAT score that he does have. This native intelligence and ambition would reap far greater success in another field. The entire affirmative action industry ( which includes the cooperation of the medical school, as well) conspires to encourage these students to enter fields in which they will either suffer complete failure or (at best) mediocrity.

The medical school is not doing these specific students any favor. If these students fail their boards they are burdened with debt without the career to pay it back. If they do manage to graduate and pass their boards, at best they will be mediocre in their careers. If a different career path had been chosen, these bright blacks may have been leaders instead.

[bareford101]

I didn’t mean to say public city schools..... I meant to say “public schools”. The cities were destroyed in the 60s and taken over.

[bareford101]

what impressed me were the smarts of those Asian young people. Their educational values are so much greater than the ones here in the US, IMO

[Jim Noble]

let's call a spade a spade for a change

Uh....

[bareford101]

if obamacare is instituted, our doctors will no longer be ones at the “top of their class”..... really scary

[bareford101]

what part of that brought on the uh? Is it not possible to use words which are very decent and useful words in our language in culture today?

This is what it means:

“Although the English language, and particularly American English, contains many examples of the influence of racism on popular speech, in this particular case there is ample evidence to prove the defendant phrase not guilty. To call a spade a spade” not only predates slavery in North America by quite a bit but harks all the way back to the Ancient Greeks, occurring in the work of, among others, the playwright Aristophanes, and is still commonly heard in modern Greek. The original phrase seems to have been “to call a fig a fig; to call a kneading trough a kneading trough,” applied to someone who spoke exceedingly frankly. Evidently, when the phrase was first translated from Greek in the Renaissance, the Greek word for “trough” was confused with the Greek for “spade,” and thus the modern version was born. The “spade” referred to in the phrase, incidentally, was the digging implement, and not the black character on playing cards that underlies the racial epithet.

http://www.word-detective.com/back-w.html

[libstripper]

Viewed solely in terms of apparent personal capacity to pass the exam, Ricci, being dyslexic and confronting a written exam, was the individual most likely to fail. However, by sheer dint of personal grit and exceptionally hard work, he was one of the high scorers. Ergo, any one of the blacks, not suffering his severe handicap, could have done better by equally hard work. Of all things she didn't show in her decision, empathy for a hard working, handicapped man is the first Sotomayor lacked.