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Trigonometry Is Racist!
National Review ^
| February 27, 2015
| KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON
Posted on 02/27/2015 5:35:37 PM PST by Steelfish
Trigonometry Is Racist! KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON February 27, 2015
An African-American scholar says that emphasis on STEM education is bad for blacks. Earlier today on Sirius XM Urban View, an African-American talk station, the guest was Daryl Scott, president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
The conversation turned to STEM — science, technology, engineering, and math — education, and the origins of the ongoing push to encourage institutions and students to focus on those subjects. Can you guess what happened?
In 1983, the guest explained, a commission empaneled by the secretary of education issued a report titled “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform.” In a memorable phrase, it warned of “a rising tide of mediocrity” in the nation’s public schools. That phrase, he said, was a “euphemism.” A euphemism for what? “For us — for African Americans.” There is nothing that happens in these United States that will not be impugned as secret racism. Nothing.
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TOPICS: Education; Politics
KEYWORDS: darylscott; education; engineering; euphemism; math; mediocrity; racism; science; sohcahtoa; stem; technology; trig; trigonometry
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:35:37 PM PST
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Steelfish
To: Steelfish
Brains don’t fail me now.
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:37:13 PM PST
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Farmer Dean
Ignorance is all-inclusive. Big tent. Welcomes everyone.
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:38:55 PM PST
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
To: Steelfish
SOH CAH TOA, ladies & gents...
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:41:23 PM PST
by
Insigne123
(It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
To: Steelfish
Go ahead ... give the Blacks the kind of DUMBED-DOWN EDUCATION that they want! Make the Whites take the harder educational route!
Guess who will get the better jobs? ... LOL ...
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:41:28 PM PST
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Steelfish
Well, they can kiss my white Irish arse!!
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:41:59 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: 9thLife
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:42:11 PM PST
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: Steelfish
Hes clearly trying to get an IN with the Obie Administration
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:42:11 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Steelfish
There weren’t any blacks in my high school trig class. Now I know why.
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:42:36 PM PST
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: Steelfish
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:43:31 PM PST
by
iowacornman
(Peter King Sucks)
To: Insigne123
SOH CAH TOASohcahtoa to you.
Couldn't forget it if I tried.
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:44:07 PM PST
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
To: Steelfish
Racists - trading acceptable stupidity and ignorance for votes.
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:44:08 PM PST
by
EagleUSA
(Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
To: Steelfish
Nothing mediocre about them. As a group, they are failures. Any group who can’t make it in the freest, most advanced, wealthiest nation in the history of Earth, despite 50 years of unfair advantages, is just not viable.
There are, of course, individual exceptions.
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:44:37 PM PST
by
Bryanw92
(Sic semper tyrannis)
To: Steelfish
Come to think of it, my teacher was Chinese. How cliche. (Truth be told, he wasn’t that good at math.)
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:44:41 PM PST
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: skr
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:44:47 PM PST
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
To: Steelfish
It is all racist, the white man made math and computers hard just to keep the black man down.
To: gundog
heres the deal
the author....is rumored to have a sister...Named...Hypotenuse!
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:44:55 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Insigne123
SOH CAH TOA, ladies & gents...Albany State Teachers College.
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:46:47 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
To: Star Traveler
After affirmative action... they will
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:49:01 PM PST
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: Steelfish
This guy seems a bit obtuse.
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posted on
02/27/2015 5:49:06 PM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Falcon 105)
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