Posted on 06/10/2015 7:17:38 PM PDT by digger48
Edited on 06/10/2015 7:24:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP)
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“Although it’s unclear why African-American students are under-represented,”
No it’s not...
It’s easy to understand, considering today’s “African American” Community.
There are plenty of AFRICANS at Purdue, and most do fine, but that inconvenient truth doesn’t buy any Democrat votes, or pay for the fancy cars of the race-baiters, does it?
Let cities/states offer vouchers so low income children can escape failing schools and you will have a lot more minority applications at the engineering school at Purdue...
Do liberals even see the cause and effect?
just wow. it’s amazing how the truth is the last thing to be told these days.
My son just got his Chemical Engineering degree from Purdue last month. Of the 125 candidates in his field, there were no blacks. I saw two black mechanical engineers, maybe two or three civil engineers. Lots of asians; the program for electrical/computer engineering grads read like a Shanghai phone book.
Getting into Purdue’s School of Engineering isn’t easy. Getting through it is brutal. Recruiting blacks to enroll doesn’t graduate them unless Daniels lowers the standards.
Those are not affirmative action degrees; if the plant chemical engineer doesn’t know what he’s doing the plant blows up.
“Getting into Purdue’s School of Engineering isn’t easy. Getting through it is brutal. Recruiting blacks to enroll doesn’t graduate them unless Daniels lowers the standards.
Those are not affirmative action degrees; if the plant chemical engineer doesn’t know what he’s doing the plant blows up.”
Daughter graduated last year from Purdue’s Aviation Technology program last year, same story. Lots of Asians, and two Africans. Not “African-Americans”, but AFRICANS.
I think the immigrants of most groups may work harder than their predecessors here. but the difference in this group is extreme. I’ve had some African immigrants apologize to me for the behavior of African Americans in several circumstances and I told them no apology is necessary.
My youngest son is a Chemical Engineering major at a Big 12 school and he tells me there are 0 blacks in his engineering classes. My oldest son graduated with a Masters in Geophysics and of the approximately 40 graduates I saw only 2 blacks, and they were from Africa.
A good work ethic can carry you far, and Africans tend to have that. Most of them had to work hard with very little to get here.
A friend of mine in high school (who is black), got his Chemical Engineering degree at Purdue and now works in the energy sector, making a very nice living.
In high school, however, he was taunted and verbally abused endlessly by many other black students. Not all, but quite a few. The girls were the absolute worst. He got called everything, especially insults questioning whether or not he was really black or not. His mortal sins being, he liked classical music and studying hard (3.9 GPA, with a lot of advanced science classes), rather than “keeping it real.”
I’m happy my friend had the last laugh, but it really opened my eyes back then what my friend had to go through. And this was over 20 years ago. I can only imagine now how bad it is for a guy (or gal) like him these days.
Don’t you just love how we are constantly told we are all the same then they turn around and tell us we have to recruit black students different then whites or others..
So which is it? All we all the same or are we all different?
We get quite a few Africans coming for short study courses in Singapore. Sometimes the men ask where they can find - um - “nightlife”. The one piece of advice they are always given is that they should identify themselves to any young ladies as “Africans”, and specifically NOT as “African Americans”.
No need to explain why.
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