Posted on 11/09/2017 5:37:51 AM PST by Kaslin
A Rasmussen poll taken in 2013 asked American adults, "Are most white Americans racist?" "Are most Hispanic Americans racist?" and "Are most black Americans racist?" Of the three groups, the winner was blacks.
Thirty-seven percent said most blacks were racist; 18 percent felt most Hispanics were racist, and 15 percent said most whites were racist.
Thirty-eight percent of whites felt most blacks were racist. Even blacks agreed, with 31 percent saying most blacks were racist, while 24 percent of blacks thought most whites racist and 15 percent believed most Hispanics were racist.
This brings us to the Cornell University's Black Students United and whether the organization is engaging in racism -- against blacks. The BSU complains that the prestigious Ivy League school admits too many blacks -- from Africa and the Caribbean. "We demand that Cornell Admissions to come up with a plan to actively increase the presence of underrepresented Black students on this campus," the BSU student group said in its demands. "We define underrepresented Black students as Black Americans who have several generations (more than two) in this country."
Hold the phone. Isn't the mantra of modern higher education "diversity," "inclusion" and "overcoming disadvantage"? If so, the black African and Caribbean students would seem to nail all three.
Maybe the problem is that it is tough to explain why so many black foreign applicants outperform America-born blacks on what some call "culturally biased" standardized tests. A 2007 study by Princeton and University of Pennsylvania sociologists examined the standardized test scores of black students enrolled at 28 selective universities. As to the SAT, the test most colleges use as an important factor in offering admission, the study found that foreign-born black college-bound students earned a statistically significant advantage on SAT scores, averaging a score of 1250 (out of 1600) compared to 1193 average points for their American black counterparts. This explains, in large part, why first- or second-generation black immigrants made up 27 percent of the black student bodies at colleges nationwide. In the Ivy League, black immigrants comprised 41 percent of black students.
What is the basis for the black students' protest? Don't black foreigners face even more obstacles? After all, America spends more on education, K through 12, than the top 34 industrialized countries save Switzerland, Austria, Norway and Luxembourg. New York City and Washington, D.C., annually spend approximately $21,000 and $15,000 per student, respectively.
BSU might want to consider the letter to the editor of The Wall Street Journal written by a man from Congo:
"I grew up in the Congo and have numerous friends in the U.S. from the Congo and other African countries who are here for an education or a better life. Every one of them is grateful for the opportunity to secure an excellent education. ... Most come here from different cultures with minimal money and limited English language skills. Interestingly, I've never heard one complain about discrimination, obstacles or being a victim. Rather, they are grateful. Juxtapose this with Cornell's Black Students United (BSU) whose members feel they should be treated better than every other color or race if they have ancestors who've been here for more than two generations.
"The counterintuitive posturing of American blacks denying other blacks from Africa or the Caribbean is appalling. First-generation African or Caribbean students have more obstacles to overcome to get into any university, much less a prestigious one like Cornell. Furthermore, the liberal American blacks who worship at the altar of 'diversity' and 'victimhood' should welcome real Africans or Caribbeans versus seeking preferences for those American blacks who truly have the superior advantage of having grown up in the U.S.
"If my Congolese friends are grateful for their opportunities here and have more challenges to overcome, why should American blacks get special treatment? Call this action what it is: racism. And it's being pushed and protected under the guise of alleged victimization and preferential treatment at the expense of others of all colors and walks of life. So I challenge the BSU folks to start focusing on the concept of succeeding in life instead of always dwelling on the idea that the system is rigged against them."
The black immigrant culture rejects the victicrat mentality embraced by so many American blacks. In "The Triple Package," a 2014 book about immigrants' children, a son of Nigerian-born parents says, "If you start thinking about or becoming absorbed in the mentality that the whole system is against us, then you cannot succeed."
Rather than complain about the success of foreign-born blacks, why not give failing urban schools some competition through vouchers to give parents greater choice in where to educate their children, a policy currently pushed by the Trump administration? In the Detroit public school district, for example, just seven percent of eighth-graders are proficient or better in reading and just four percent are sufficient or better in math, despite total expenditures per student of over $18,000, according to the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress tests.
Isn't this the real problem?
Thank LBJ’s War on Poverty for nurturing Black victimhood because it paid in free money from the government. He readily admitted that it wasn’t because he loved Blacks, but because “n*****s will be voting Democrat for a hundred years.” And he was right.
American blacks were taught victimhood by their Democrat white liberal elite masters... keeps 'em on the failure plantation...
Barack Obama was a first or second generation African immigrant and therefore part of that “over represented” group.
The most Vile, Hateful, Racist people I have ever seen or met were either Black, Brown, or in the Entertainment Industry.
Anyone who doesn’t believe these results has no awareness whatsoever of the historically tribal nature of blacks. In fact, I’m a bit surprised that the results of the survey aren’t worse.
I spent a fair amount of time training and working with military and security forces in sub-Saharan Africa and I can honestly say that I truly enjoyed working with them. If there is an accurate stereotype that applies almost universally among the people with whom I worked, it is that they are very warm, friendly people who are incredibly eager to learn. I and my colleagues, most of whom were white, were treated exceptionally well - even in the early days of the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. However, that cannot be said of their treatment of one another.
Like Asians, Europeans and people almost anywhere (with the possible exception of the United States), locals recognize outsiders - even if they have the same skin tone and speak the same language, and members of one tribe readily recognize members of another and they almost universally don’t like one another.
Consequently, when they come to the United States, they bring those same biases and prejudices with them, as do people from anywhere in the world but, by and large, many Americans seem to maintain the position that only Americans are bigoted and racist. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Isn’t this a kicker?
I am a Christian and I love my fellow man even this Gal.
She is late and leaves early, she acts up all day, screwed my orders by not ordering enough parts(her job) now my customers will get parts late. :> ( I work(live upstate) near NYC so you can imagine the liberal lunacy that has surrounded me for - over 30 years......makes me stronger than ever believe you me!!
Disruptive, tardy, loud, obnoxious, immature, low or no work ethic....and they would NEVER dream of rep-remand. Would not be PC......
And a Country Girl Will Survive!
Freegards!!!!!!!!
By the Cornell definition, Obama, Holder, and Colin Powell do not count as "Black Americans."
On the shores of Lake Cayuga there is an awful smell. It is Cornell.
the real African blacks i've worked with all despise American blacks and their so called culture...
Most likely there was a white liberal to fuel their hatred.
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