Posted on 01/11/2014 6:09:14 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
A new report from the Schott Foundation reveals that only 47 percent of black male students earn a high school diploma on time. Ironically, this report came out shortly after Judge Vaughn Walker ruled regarding Proposition 8 in California. If the statements on which Judge Walker based his ruling are "facts," how do we explain what is happening educationally to boys in the black community where a large majority are growing up without fathers?
Nancy Pearcey, in an article on American Thinker, identified certain "facts that Judge Walker claims are now established by the 'evidence' presented in his courtroom." Those "facts" presumably will be deemed as "truth" far beyond the courtroom. Among those "facts," the following three are especially relevant for young black boys' futures:
"Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage."
"The gender of a child's parent is not a factor in a child's adjustment."
"Having both a male and a female parent does not increase the likelihood that a child will be well-adjusted."
Those three general false principles that Judge Walker supposedly established in his arguments in favor of so-called "same-sex marriage" are equally faulty when applied to the more than 40 percent of today's children who are born to single mothers. They are doubly relevant when the majority of those children are black.
Here are some irrefutable facts that Judge Walker and his ilk need to ponder.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
“They were better off before Brown v. Board of Education.”
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I believe you are right, I remember those days. Black people in the South really did have a lot of problems to deal with but most seemed to believe in overcoming problems, now far too many want to just get high and blame Whitey. Black men used to work at low paid jobs and still manage to somehow raise a family and see their children get an education that, however limited it may have been, far exceeded what so many are accomplishing today. It is much better to grow up to be an honest, hardworking, low paid contributing member of society than to become an ungrateful leech. One good concrete finisher is worth more than a million Al Sharpton followers. The same could be said for much of the white population also.
Are Blacks as dangerous in Canada as in the US? Where I live there are almost non existent. The ones I have seen are productive members of the community.
I’m currently visiting Halifax where my wife is, and driving around yesterday we drove through an area and she said it’s extremely dangerous as it’s a Black neighborhood, but I’ve never seen it.
Collectivism at its best.
Then why is Asia so poor ? Mexico has a much higher per capita GDP than China. Throw in Hong Kong and Taiwan as an aggregate and the Chinese diaspora is still poorer and always will be.
If you start arguing situationality then you have eliminated your own IQ argument.
Also American’s ethnic groupings are non representative samples, as you should know.
“Are Blacks as dangerous in Canada as in the US?”
No. Black men who move here from other countries are just like anybody else. These were manufactured by Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society.” When he signed the Civil Right act with MLK standing right behind him he said, “We’ll have these niggers voting for us for the next hundred years.” If you’d studied LBJ you’d know he was a died-in-the-wool racist of the old hang-em-high school.
I remember Esther Rolle, with narrowed eyes and anger in her voice, attributing the mess the black family is in to slavery. I.e., husbands and wives would be separated at the owners’ whim. Ignoring a hundred years after the Civil War.
Low IQ, destructive homelife, peer pressure to not do well academically, violent lifestyle.
Not racism or school spending.
These children come to school with negative outlooks. When I insisted that one 4th grader sit in his seat and behave, he said, “My Momma told me Whitey would get me every time!” On rainy days he scratched his own arms with his scissors.
May God bless these children. Black parents are the ones needing some manners and positive attitudes to pass on to their children. The children know no better.
There’s more to national wealth that merely IQ. Of course the economic system, and political system too, contribute to wealth as well. At this time, the wealth of China is increasing rapidly, and this in only decades after some changes. Hong Kong is one of the richest places on Earth, and became so after barely 40 years. Compare that with anywhere in Africa. Furthermore, China has a continuous written history spanning thousands of years - who else can claim that accomplishment? Nobody. IQ isn’t everything, but it isn’t nothing, either.
I don’t think a lot of (white) people realize this sort of thing is rampant. In their current culture, wanting to achieve higher levels of education is met with “why? what, you think you’re better than us?”, even coming from a parent!!!! I can’t imagine growing up in an environment that surrounds you with such destructive messages. It is truly a generational problem. Misery truly loves company.
And how much of having a higher IQ relates to culture? It isn’t all genetics and slight variances on average do not even come close to explaining that *vast* differences in outcome. We’re ALL God’s children...I personally have a higher regard for a well spoken and educated black man, I can only imagine some of the BS taken to get there.
Okay...you’ve laid out the cause. Fatherlessness among young black males.
Now, the big question....what do we do about it? It’s not like we can go back and magically add a father to all those having problems today.
I heard one person say that the only solutions he saw was “kill ‘em all, put ‘em all in prison, or bring back slavery.” (Of course, that guy was a serious racist.)
They have fathers and they know exactly who their fathers are. The fact is, they are growing up to be just like their fathers.
It’s simple: they’re not working; not studying
The Democrat party was the Party of Slavery™ at its founding two centuries ago.
I’m not claiming it’s *all* genetics. But I do claim that it isn’t “slight” variances of the averages. Read The Bell Curve, if you dare.
The answer is:
They have been trained to adopt a sense of entitlement, and a disdain for "white" education.
You can thank LBJ, the RATs, the Soviet Union, and all the "black leaders" you can think of, for this mess.
Phil Robertson was right. Black families were doing pretty well before the "Great Society" destroyed them.
Fine....but it still dangerous to generalize, it can negatively taint an opinion of somebody unfairly. Bell curves say nothing when it comes to an individual, of which I give (initially) the benefit of doubt.
Good inner-city teachers quickly learn to keep achievements secret, and praise good work quietly, individually. Don't even share it with the "parents." I haven't clicked to the article yet, but I've thought for a long time that the slum bunch believe learning and graduating is "acting white." They'll never get out of the slums if their culture demands and enforces ignorance. The biggest problem holding blacks down has a black face. I refuse to help in any way until this attitude changes.
White Regressives need to learn the fault isn't white people. It's not hard to see why Jesse Jagmo and Al Notsharpton demand what they do, it's self-interest for them. The same goes for the white Rat politicians who pander to them.
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