About half of Detroit can't read

BoingBoing ^ | 23 March 2017 | Andrea James

[Cowboy Bob]

If they can’t read...

How do they know who they are voting for?

[umgud]

Many of them have really good math and economics skills, especially in selling products requiring weights & measures.

[I want the USA back]

Why? because those evil Whiteys prevented them from reading? or because their parent doesn’t know how to read and is too stupid anyway and is on drugs and doesn’t give a $hit about its kids?

[Navy Patriot]

About half of Detroit can't read

No matter, they can sign their confessions anyway.

[Verginius Rufus]

The British captured Detroit during the War of 1812. We should have made them keep it.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Not surprised. DemocRats have had free run of Detroit for decades. But education isn’t necessarily a requirement for success. Skilled tradesmen are always in demand.

[Lorianne]

Pretty sure skilled tradesmen have to be able to at least read and do basic math.

[Lorianne]

lol

[FlingWingFlyer]

Yup!

[Huskrrrr]

Kind of embarrassing when you’re a wall graffiti “artist.”

[VietVet876]

Then an English language literacy test would be a good think in a federal law mandating minimum voting requirements for federal elections. Great idea for the states, too. A poll tax would be going too far.

[FirstFlaBn]

They need to raise taxes and spend more on public education. That oughta fix it.

[Kenton]

About half of Detroit can't read

And the other half can't read "cursive".

[JimSEA]

Demographics explain the illiteracy rate. Only five percent Hispanic but eighty one percent black with a likely two and one half "other race" which may be Muslim.

[Garth Tater]

I've read where upwards of 40% of illegals are illiterate... IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE, much less English.

That's sort of why I learned Mexican instead of Spanish - don't have to know all those verb conjugations.

[Hat-Trick]

Lesson #1 for the functionally illiterate residents of Detroit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_conjugation

[Robert A Cook PE]

They voted democrap many times in many precincts in every election.

And many the illegal alien adults (from the MidEast and other countries) also arrive illiterate!

[Blood of Tyrants]

It depends. My dad’s friend was a carpenter with a 3rd grade education and raised his family. But I’m pretty sure he could tell you what 7/8” + 1/2” was.

[Common Sense 101]

About half of Detroit can't read

Uh huh... and my first thought is, did nimrods from Detroit do the math to make this proclamation?

[usconservative]

I work for a Fortune 500 company. I'll tell you point blank the MAJORITY of VP's and senior level management in my experience cannot write or spell correctly.

A true testimony to our educational system at all levels.