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Black College Students: An Endangered Species, Unless They Play Ball
The Root via Yahoo ^ | December 30, 2022 | Derrick Z. Jackson

Posted on 12/30/2022 5:06:13 PM PST by grundle

One thing seems certain if the Supreme Court bans affirmative action in college admissions: The only Black men left on campus will be athletes.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous; Sports
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; clickbait; racism
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To: vpintheak

African-Africans do pretty well.

Its the African-Americans that don’t do so great. Wonder why that is? The African Americans did pretty well before they hitched their wagon to the statist-slaver Democrats.

What a mystery!


41 posted on 12/30/2022 6:13:59 PM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: Cowgirl

I read once that in 1960 the black illegitimacy rate in the US was something like 5%. Today it’s closer to 70%.


42 posted on 12/30/2022 6:15:20 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: JennysCool

That is correct. Consider trade schools when charting out one’s career for the next 20 years. But one needs to perform due dilligence and learn what the business community thinks of a particular trade school. Some schools, along with their curricula and their staff have a better reputation than others.


43 posted on 12/30/2022 6:18:07 PM PST by lee martell
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To: rod5591

Who ever told you that?


44 posted on 12/30/2022 6:20:35 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Gay State Conservative

Our future is bright...


45 posted on 12/30/2022 6:24:27 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Blood of Tyrants

That was W, I believe.


46 posted on 12/30/2022 6:25:05 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: big bad easter bunny

& Thomas Sowell


47 posted on 12/30/2022 6:33:24 PM PST by mykroar (what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. - J0eStalin)
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To: grundle

Way to slur blacks, Derrick Z. Jackson.

How did you get your degree, I wonder?

48 posted on 12/30/2022 6:41:34 PM PST by simpson96
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To: grundle
Yep.
49 posted on 12/30/2022 6:51:55 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: grundle

It sure is a shame that Americans are expected to lower their standards because minorities can’t meet them. It used to be that people wanted minorities to raise their standards. All that is gone now.


50 posted on 12/30/2022 6:52:31 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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To: rod5591
You understand wrong but you are in good company.
51 posted on 12/30/2022 6:53:34 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: leaning conservative

“ The Root is an absolute hack job of a journal. Does he even realize what a condemnation of the black intellect his article is???”

Some one needs to tell him that’s how he got his job. Watch him freak out.


52 posted on 12/30/2022 7:02:53 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (At this point I would rather have the illegals here than the liberals.)
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To: Da Coyote

Exactly. I blame it on “black culture”.

The bad kind of “black culture”. The kind that is corrosive, divisive, and violent. Thomas Sowell discussed it in his superb book “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”, and how it was oddly descended from the Irish who immigrated and settled in the South.

The negative culture of misogyny. The contempt for education. The flaunting of law. The worship of violence. The absence of males in the family, even when a family structure does exist. The gangster culture. The homicidal rage at being disrespected. And more.

It isn’t that “it just happens” and they have to endure it. Those who subscribe to that toxic mix embrace it.

As you accurately point out blacks have the same tools and capability anyone else of any color has. People like Booker T. Washington, Thomas Sowell, Justice Thomas, Ben Carson, Colonel West, Larry Elder, those pilots you trained, all of them, are stark and undeniable evidence of that.

What is astonishing to me is that in significant swaths of the black community, those men are reviled.

All of those men I mentioned have accomplished so much more than those who hate them, because they do not toe the line on Leftist ideology. They are the anti-’black culture’.

In summary, it is not the color of their skin that makes some in the black community embrace the worst traits of man.

It is the culture they embrace that does that to them. Call it “Black Culture”, call it Marxism, but in the end, it all leads in the same negative direction.

Their ideology.

Their Leftist ideology.

And it is that Leftist ideology that is firmly convinced that because of their color, blacks are unable to achieve on their own merits, and must be “helped”.


53 posted on 12/30/2022 7:03:26 PM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: Gay State Conservative

There was once a time where white and black illegitimacy were both very close.

Then came the Great Society programs put in place by LBJ.


54 posted on 12/30/2022 7:06:15 PM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: grundle

Uh there are plenty minority students even after California voters did away with discrimination in admissions decades ago


55 posted on 12/30/2022 7:11:06 PM PST by newzjunkey (How does GA end up with 2 Dem senators & 100% GOP statewide officials??? UGH)
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To: grundle

Totally ignored by the fact that places like Harvard and Princeton are enrolling all the academically talented blacks. That means all the lesser schools and traditionally black colleges don’t get qualified blacks.


56 posted on 12/30/2022 7:11:33 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Four of Six

As I remember Charles white graduated from college, was a heisman trophy winner that went back to first grade when he was done playing NFL football

He couldnt read


57 posted on 12/30/2022 7:16:47 PM PST by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: Sarcazmo

Indeed. Dims have made it easy for everyone of all colors to blame everyone for their ills. Then it’s easier to just sponge off the government from there.
It’s been institutionalized into the black community especially.


58 posted on 12/30/2022 7:19:21 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: South Dakota

I remember Dexter Manley’s testimony before Congress, it was heartbreaking to watch, but it had a happy ending, as eventually he learned to read.


59 posted on 12/30/2022 7:22:01 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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So, I guess that they are saying that wypipo and asians are like totally the supremiest


60 posted on 12/30/2022 7:29:05 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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