Posted on 04/03/2013 11:04:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
Professor Craig Frisby is on the faculty of University of Missouri's Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology. His most recent book is "Meeting the Psychoeducational Needs of Minority Students." It's a 662-page textbook covering a range of topics from multiculturalism and home and family influences to student testing and school discipline. There's no way full justice can be given to this excellent work in the space of this column, so I'll highlight a few valuable insights he makes that would help educators do a better job with minority students.
Quack multiculturalism is the name Frisby gives to the vision of multiculturalism that promotes the falsehoods and distortions that dominate today's college agenda, sold under various names such as "valuing diversity," "being sensitive to cultural differences" and "cultural competence." He identifies different brands of multiculturalism such as boutique, Kumbayah, light-and-fluffy, and bean-counting multiculturalism. Insider language used to promote multiculturalism includes terms such as "practice tolerance," "celebrate diversity," "equity with excellence" and "differences are not deficits." Escalating costs and budget crunches don't stop colleges from hiring vice presidents, deans and directors of diversity.
Multiculturalism teaches that one set of cultural values is equal to another. That means if black students talk, dress and comport themselves in a certain way, to criticize them is merely cultural imperialism. Frisby cites college textbooks that teach: "Racism is what people do, regardless of what they think or feel" and "Institutional racism is characterized by practices or policies that systematically limit opportunities for people who historically have been characterized as psychologically, intellectually, or physically deficient" and "One can view the clock as a tool of racism that the monochromic dominant society uses to regulate subordinate groups."
All of this boils down to teaching undergraduate and graduate students and professionals in the fields of psychology and education to be non-critical and feel sympathy for blacks and other minorities. I might add that such sympathy doesn't extend to Japanese, Chinese and Jews, who are even more of a minority.
Frisby gives many examples of multicultural lunacy. One particularly egregious one was the 12th annual White Privilege Conference (WPC) held in 2011 in Minneapolis, Minn., and sponsored by the University of Colorado's Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity. The WPC is "built on the premise that the U.S. was started by white people, for white people." Among the 150 workshops offered during the conference were "Making Your School or Classroom a Force for Eliminating Racism," Helping Non-White Students Survive Academia -- The Pinnacle of White Dominance" and "Uprooting Christian Hegemony." This vision of the mission of education might help to explain why students, particularly minority students, emerge from high school and college with little reading, writing and thinking ability.
Frisby turns his attention to school discipline and criminal behavior. He discusses the atmosphere at one New York school, which is by no means unique among schools. Teachers experience being pushed, shoved and spit upon by students. A male teacher transferred to another school after a student threatened to rape his wife. In this kind of atmosphere, should anyone be surprised that only 3 percent of the students were at grade level in English and only 9 percent in math?
The fundamental problem crippling low-income minority students is school behavioral disorder. Its visible manifestations are graffiti, broken and vandalized furniture, fights, sexual activity, drug use in the bathrooms and rowdy behavior. Frisby says we should tell students exactly how to behave and tolerate no disorder. That's not rocket science, except for today's liberal establishment who run our schools and colleges.
You say, "Williams, what Frisby says simply reflects the insensitivity of privileged white people." But what if I told you that Professor Craig Frisby is a black professor at the University of Missouri who has a record of fine scholarship? My read of his book is that it supplies more evidence that the actions of soft-minded, guilty white liberals have done far more harm to black people than racists of the past could have ever done.
Actually, that is more or less historically accurate.
What are we supposed to do .... apologize for existing and crawl back to rat-infested slums of London and Paris?
One of these days minoritarians will "get it" .... but by then they'll be too busy pursuing their sanctioned blood sport of riding around white neighborhoods and shooting people. Hunting tags supplied, no doubt, by Holder Justice.
Thanks for posting this. I’ll have to get the book.
One needs to look hard at how groups like the "Matrix Center" are funded. You will find 99% of the time it is through the Gov't. I like to call it "Gov't funded hate."
I always try to figure out what “needs” these groups have in college. What I remember about college, was I would wake up, go to class, study, then drink beer. It was up to me to wake up, and get to class. It was up to me to listen, and take notes, it was up to me to study, and be ready for the tests. I didn’t “need” anything except beer money, but it was also up to me to figure out how to obtain it.
Then a good liberal will dismiss him as an "oreo" or "uncle tom."
Great article.
The irony of the “tolerance” movement is that:
a) they are VERy INTOLERANT of people who they don’t agree with.
b) they’re VERY intolerant of intolerant people, which means recursively that they don’t even like themselves! Ha!
Additionally, whenever I see a dispute between people who disagree on petty issues or liberals who start hating on conservatives, I cheerfully chirp:
“Hey, Celebrate Diversity!” with a big smile on my face and that shuts them up because they realize they’re supposed to tolerate people like me who are logical and conservative.
Don’t know how you get that from my comment.
I was merely pointing out that the early colonists and the Founders were not conciously putting together a multi-cultural society. They assumed Americans of the future would be ethnically much like Americans of their present.
In fact, the general opinion was that diverse races could not live together for long in conditions of freedom and harmony. That, for instance, freeing the slaves would eventually result in a race war that would exterminate blacks in America.
The default assumption of today’s society is that such co-existence is indeed possible and inevitable.
We’re still in the process of finding out who was right. I certainly hope today’s attitudes are, but those old white guys were pretty sharp.
From page 204 of Frisby’s book: “Worldwide, the average IQ score obtained by East Asians converges at around 106, for whites around 100, and for American Blacks around 85, Hispanic and Native Americans obtain IQ scores that average around 90, although there is less data for these groups relative to data comparing American blacks and whites. Approximately 22 percent of whites, 59 percent of blacks, 47 percent of Hispanics, and 14 percent of Asians will obtain IQ test scores below 90. Approximately 18 percent of whites, 2 percent of blacks, 6 percent of Hispanics, and 27 percent of Asians will obtain IQ test scores above 115 (Gottfredson, 2005, p. 541).”
This data should drive the multiculturalists apoplectic.
He may be the greatest thing since sliced bread; personally, I’m way past tired of hearing about “minority needs.”
When they say “minority” they don’t mean minority. They mean the government-designated victim groups that get special privileges. Free tuition. Preference in college admission and hiring. Free no-work jobs with the government. Free get-out-of-jail-card if the jury is all White.
Reading modern newspaper headlines about troubles in "bi-racial/cultural/religious/lingual" societies just drives that point home. We are reminded endlessly that Cyprus is two separate societies, ditto-ditto Northern Ireland, ditto-ditto Belgium, ditto-ditto Rwanda and Burundi. Just yesterday someone making a speech in Africa was calling for an end to tribal "particularism" and "tribalism" .... as if that were the end of the troubles, if only they could get rid of tribalism.
Ironic, considering that Wilson would nowadays be considered a champion of tribalism, or rather of tribal nationalism. He consistently argued that every ethnicity is or should be its own nation. Hence "Wilsonianism".
1. No negative numbers. Negatives are criticisms, and we don't like to be negative. Only positive is allowed.
2. Only even numbers, no odd numbers. Nobody wants to be told they are "odd." This also eliminates "prime" numbers because "prime" is judgmental, more important than everyone else. The number two is okay, however, because it's even and everyone wants an even share.
3. No irrational numbers. Self-explanatory.
4. No squares or powers. Being called "square" is demeaning, and no numbers should have that much power.
5. No roots, because Roots is about racism.
6...
-PJ
He's right - elite guilty white liberals have been a disaster for the black community - and a great boon for the black criminal class... They walked into the black community and took power away from the grown-ups and gave it to young radicals. Liberal elites have tried to do the same in the white community by undermining the middle class... but so far we've been able to hold them back...
We’re supposed to feel guilty, and look the other way while they spew racism at us. I say F them.
Me too.
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