Racial Stupidity and Malevolence

Townhall.com ^ | September 8, 2010 | Walter E. Williams

[ilovesarah2012]

Exactly why AA doesn’t work and in fact hurts blacks.

[STONEWALLS]

“This is seen by the huge performance gap between blacks and whites on exams for graduate school admittance such as the GRE, MCAT and LSAT.”

....I avoid black doctors for this reason....their MCAT scores are lower...my father taught me “when it comes to medicine always go to the best; because if it’s serious you’re going to end up ther anyway.

[Fee]

Good book to get is titled “Being Number One” by Oh. Korean woman wrote a book about why Asians do very well in school. The reason is not genetic, but cultural. Parents instill the importance of education in their children and play an active role in making sure their kids are doing their homework, pass tests and etc. They would not hesitate to spend extra money to fine tune their A student to make sure all hints of flaws are corrected. Paying for extra schooling in addition to public schooling is not unheard of. Blacks are capable of the same if their parents and culture emphasize the value of education above all else. In the 1930’s blacks in Harlem NY, 85 percent of them would pass the state test for high school graduation. Back those days, if only 85 percent pass it, the school was considered substandard performance. Today public schools would be very happy with such results.

[bigredkitty1]

Another gem from The Learned One, Dr. Walter E. Williams.

[yldstrk]

On the other hand, since they made it, they are in the 99% for their neighborhood?

[MrB]

It’s not the “paying” for the extra schooling/tutoring that really matters, though - it’s the cultural part.

A family that values education is a HUGE boost to their children.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The system hurts Blacks. This is deliberate and intentional, so as to keep Blacks down and angry. Then their anger is directed at Whites who are blamed for the failure.

Affirmative action, grade inflation, passing kids who don’t deserve to pass, race norming and minority setasides are all illegal, unconstitutional, and hurt Blacks.

[Em and Brets Mum]

Boy, we were so lucky to end up with a president of color who actually reached life’s heights on his own, not through some misguided AA.

[Venturer]

I read a similar story to this one ten years ago. Nothing has changed and we spend billions on schooling these kids.

[ElayneJ]

I’d like this message to get out to the public in a big way. It’s absolutely racist to assume the curriculum has to be adjusted for one particular group of students - as if they’re not smart enough to compete. Parents across the board should be outraged. Look at all the remedial programs in place at the college level! We’re all paying for that, and students like this one are paying the most in unfilled expectations. We promise education via the public school system, and in so many cases we don’t deliver. It’s like a breach of contract, IMO.

[SMARTY]

I am certain that (if I wanted) I could have permitted myself some sort of half-a^%$d ethnic minority status, all my life. My grandparents were from E Europe so we look European. That has never meant we were in ANY way less capable or permitted our socio economic status to dictate our opportunities.

THAT would be a cop out. I never needed ANY special treatment or consideration. I have always seen that as BS and I have no respect for any one (let alone entire classes of people) who constantly demand and GET priority in education, etc. THEN turn around and continue to whine about inequality. SHUT UP AND GO TO WORK DA&^ IT!!!!!

[skimask]

When my youngest son was in the process of applying to one of our Military Academies, we were informed that he had to submit three SAT’s and each one had to have a higher score than the previous one. His score on his second SAT was somewhere in the 1150 range and he told his mother that he felt that he had hit the wall. His mother looked around and found a place that tutors kids for their SAT’s. They test you o find where your weakness are then work on that. It was a two month course that was three nights a week for three hours each night. One of the nights was my visitation night and I had to pick him up there. What shocked me was the fact that my son was the only white student there. All the other students were either Asian or Indian (dot not feather). Any way on his third SAT he scored 1430. So the money his mother and I spent was well worth it. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis MD and is now a major serving in the United States Marine Corps.

[workerbee]

The vast majority of Harlem students of the ‘40s and ‘50s were almost certainly products of 2-parent, church-going, intact families that understood the value of being educated. Then came the ‘60s and all the grand social engineering, which continues to this day. And you see the result.

It’s such an obvious answer, yet we’ve prohibited ourselves from speaking it aloud.

[Old Badger]

Congratulations ................. you have a fine looking Marine/son on your about page. Someone of whom to really be proud of and an honor to you and your family name.

[Gumdrop]

GWB called this sort of liberalism as the “bigotry of low expectations.”

[Psalm 144]

This creates problems for my kid’s education. The course material for the class is so trifling that the kid is at the top of the class - without really learning anything substantive or progressing at an acceptable rate.

Worse, the school is private, with better instruction than the surrounding public schools. Tutoring or homeschooling look like the only solution. I have to resort to these all the time anyway, in practice.

[MondoQueen]

I can attest to the fact that black families in the 40s were intact, with a father and mother, and a house and the father worked. We had a small group of blacks in my hometown in a suburb of Chicago. All of them finished highschool, and most of them went on to college. The difference now? The breakup of the family.

[Psalm 144]

Outstanding and well done, on your part, your son’s, his mother’s and his tutors’!

That is the goal.

[ElayneJ]

“bigotry of low expectations”

That’s exactly what it is!