Posted on 09/29/2020 5:02:24 PM PDT by karpov
Wells Fargo’s CEO recently faced outrage for a memo noting “the unfortunate reality is that there is a very limited pool of black talent to recruit from.”
Rather than pseudo-righteous indignation, maybe it’s time to confront uncomfortable facts about both college preparedness and the way our society bases economic opportunity on college success.
According to critical race theory, our intellectual class’ obsession du jour, any hiring disparity reflects structural racism, and companies like Wells Fargo simply “aren’t trying hard enough” to find black candidates. In reality, there are wide racial gaps even before college. The average black SAT taker trails the overall average by more than 100 points, reflecting a pattern that shapes applicant pools in all college-dependent jobs.
No serious person can ignore these disparities. Improving college preparation is crucial.
But better college preparation isn’t the only solution. We must do more to create opportunity for those less inclined to play the college game.
College is good at filtering for one form of talent. A society that makes college the primary path to opportunity and status will favor one type of person. People with other strengths and learning styles will be left behind. Even those who can succeed at college often suppress greater talents to force themselves into this mold — a recipe for an unfulfilling life.
Rather than more diversity programs to identify “college-caliber” people whom elite colleges somehow missed, we need to bolster a range of career tracks that cultivate and reward a range of talents.
These career tracks need not cap out at a skilled-tradesman level (as attractive as such careers can be). Countless people who skipped college have built thriving businesses. Paul Graham, the founder of Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator, has pointed out that college doesn’t just fail to teach key business skills
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It hurts those who are qualified, but have to learn at a lower level than they can operate at, cutting short their educational opportunities. It also hurts those who can do well in life, but they don’t quite operate at a level required by a decent college.
Due to the Bell curve, not everyone is intellectually qualified to attend college.
So the Blacks who got those loans ended up getting stuck with bad loans on underwater houses, i.e. they were the stuckees at the bottom of the housing pyramid. The liberals thought they were doing the Blacks a favor by forcing banks to give them home loans that they couldn't afford, but ended up putting them in a worse situation with a foreclosure added to whatever other issues they had.
Similarly, forcing/cajoling colleges to give college loans to unprepared Black students only puts them in a worse position when they end up flunking out after wasting a year or three that they could have spent working themselves up the corporate ladder. And now they have school loans they have to pay back!
Liberals are certainly the gift that keeps on giving... like STDs.
Yeah, but it creates lots of embittered, angry adults who are easy for the left to radicalize.
Only Ding Dongs deny the Bell Curve.
I read and re-read this essay and still don’t have a clue what the author is saying or proposing. It’s mostly a bunch of mealy-mouthed mush with an undertone of “whites are racist oppressors.”
He seems to get to his point at the very end when he writes “...we need an economy that offers a truly diverse set of career paths to match the diversity of individual strengths and interests.”
But I’m still not sure what a “truly diverse set of career paths” means.
There are tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of career opportunities out there. There are thousands of different types of businesses. There are 33 million companies in the USA. There are thousands of different professions.
There is something for everyone in our amazing economy.
BUT, to succeed, you have to want it, have to have the inner drive, have to get educated, have to show up on time, have to be willing to do grunt work for a long while to pay your dues, have to show up sober, have to get along with your coworkers and respect your boss. Or break out on your own and go for it. Opportunity is unlimited here.
Nothing is holding you back. The rules of success haven’t changed, but the racist views of business have gained ridiculous traction.
I remember reading a fascinating article by Thomas Sowell several decades ago. He was addressing the fact that black students had poor graduation rates at elite schools. He claimed that contrary to popular opinion, there were plenty of lower-income black kids that could do well at elite schools, but admission directors passed them over because they were too “middle class”, and instead chose the more confrontational kids.
Wells Fargo guy is correct.
They for the most part believe they work way harder than tbey do, and expect reawrds and promotions way sooner and more often than they occur.
In short they believe life is a movie montage.
Apparently until the 13% of our population is on every tv show, winning every award, and is at 100 percent full employment, we are all just racist. The grievance movement is never ending.
And the last part is the issue, that’s why most blacks who get through college and get a degree wind up in HR or in some Government bureaucracy.
Most of my friends kids can read at 3rd grade level before entering kindergarten. Everybody in the country has access to the entire knowledge base of all of humanity that emperors and kings throughout history would have scorched the entire earth to obtain Even a fraction of this knowledge contained within. There are free classes for everything. Some cultures take initiative, and others wait for other people to educate them or fix their streets, or save them in a hurricane.
The family needs to be revisited with incentives to have a 2 parent, stable environment.
IQ is genetic. If there’s inbreeding, it gets even lower.
They are at the bottom of the list of people to be admitted into collages, they are not the flavor of the month minority, they are not from families that are well enough off to put them in the special programs that would move them up the list and their parents have no connections to get them in.
When they apply for jobs they are often told they need a degree for jobs where no degree is required. Once again since they will not add "diversity" to the company they are at the bottom of the list of people to be hired the first laid off and rarely promoted.
Nobody wants to talk about it.
[But I’m still not sure what a “truly diverse set of career paths” means.]
Apparently until the 13% of our population is on every tv show, winning every award, and is at 100 percent full employment, we are all just racist. The grievance movement is never ending.
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Your right it is never ending. If we ever got to where you specify it then turn to genocide of the White race. It coming just like the Jews in Germany. It’s coming
Black Lies Matter
America needs to stop making race sensitive excuses.
The only time I think about my ethnic heritage - northern Europe - is when the Political Left compels me to think about it.
Basic genetics make at least 50% of the decisions that determine how you make a living.
The other 50% is a mixture of good luck, bad luck, hard work, honesty, and will power.
The list of the things I can NEVER do is almost endless.
However, I am fully qualified to write Comments, and Free Republic pays me exactly what I am worth.
If that’s so, it’s the admissions people wanting to keep alive the myth that AA is needed, otherwise acting white or Asian would be seen as a path to success, contrary to what the limousine libs and the poverty pimps would have blacks believing, else the liberal plantation, and its diversity demons, would be a-shrinking.
Inequality as well as stupidity.
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