Scamming Blacks — Maybe They Need A Better Class Of Friends

TooGood Reports ^ | Monday, November 17, 2003 | Fred Reed

[Cicero]

Well, in a way you can understand why the girl would feel this way. New England colleges are offering large scholarships to Navajoe girls living in the desert. University of Colorado is probably going out and bribing inner city blacks from the two coasts to come there.

These people are going to feel like fish out of water. As the article says, they should feel lucky to be the recipients of huge financial aid never offered to any white student. But it's doubtful whether the admissions offices ever consider their feelings as human beings, taking them out of one environment and throwing them into a completely different one just so they can boast that they have such and such a percentage of all the required minority groups on campus.

[KellyAdmirer]

Er, I don't know exactly where this all fits in here, but I think it's relevant that there are plenty of blacks and even black neighborhoods in Colorado. This is not Idaho, Denver and Colorado Springs are not Boise. The implication here is that nearest local African-American is in Chicago or Vegas, and it just isn't so.

[T Lady]

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[Republicus2001]

no worry - move to Harlem and Willy Clinton will find her a job

[Hodar]

Is this fair to the black doctor who advanced on his merits? No.

And thus when I (and others like me) see a black MD, we are suspicious. Did this person EARN his MD, or was it a gift given by virtue of his race? I only have one life, so given the choice between a black MD and a MD of ANY other race, I'll opt for the non-black MD every time. Because, I KNOW that the non-black MD did not benefit by Affirmative Action, and that he earned his degree. If my life (or the life of a loved one) depends on it, yes sir; I am a rascist.

[presidio9]

no worry - move to Harlem and Willy Clinton will find her a job

On of the fringe benefits is mouthwash.

[rightbanker]

What racist clap trap this is.

Take the silliness about average SAT scores of 1200. Unless there is no variance from the mean, if the average is 1200, then there are probably lots of people with a score of 1000. So why should a person, black or white, who's score is below the average feel as though they don't belong? It is after all the nature of an average that scores are spread around them.

And where is it ever ever shown anywhere that the actual grades of black students don't reflect their performance, even if affirmative action played some role in their admissions???? Do you think professors actually grade black students differently??? What's the evidence for that??

This is Pure racist trash, that has nothing to do with conservatism.

[Onelifetogive]

If I were black I might wonder whether I weren't being taken for a ride by people who really didn't have much use for me.

People who would refuse to be taken for a ride like this don't get taken for rides like this!

[Onelifetogive]

Take the silliness about average SAT scores of 1200. Unless there is no variance from the mean, if the average is 1200, then there are probably lots of people with a score of 1000.

You are wrong on this one...200 points below average on an SAT is far enough that you are not in the same league with the other students around you. It would be VERY obvious that you did not belong.

[Onelifetogive]

What racist clap trap this is.

From Thomas Sowell (Who knows more about this topic that you or I will ever know)

A college's average SAT score is a useful rough indication of whether your scores put you in or out of the ball park as far as that school is concerned. If your math and verbal SAT's combined are 100 points below the college's average, that is not out of the ball park. But if they are 200 points below, you are probably pressing your luck. Every college has its anecdotes about students with low scores who did wonderfully. There are also illiterates who became millionaires. But most people go with the percentages, instead of betting their future on a long shot. College is too serious a choice to let other people's anecdotes lead you into a bad gamble. But that doesn't mean that there is no leeway at all in schools you can reasonably apply to.

[Twrch]

http://www.collegeboard.com/highered/ad/ad.html

[Chewbacca]

"..there are plenty of blacks and even black neighborhoods in Colorado."

Is there a Martin Luther King BLVD in Colorado?

Here in OK City that is one street you don't want to run out of gas on at 2am. Lots of drug dealers and gang members. Very few white people want to live on that street.

[Cobra64]

..."felt "uncomfortable" because the social atmosphere wasn't to her taste: there weren't enough black faces, or black clubs, or black this and that. Her attitude was, "Do something. The universe owes me any adjustment that I demand to my tedious minor problems. How I suffer. Take care of me."

She's too stupid to go to college. On a national level, 13% of the population is black.

I know that in Co it is a lot lower. I lived there for 25 years.

If she wants to feel more "comfortable," why doesn't she go to the Univ. of MS?

What a dolt.

[taxed2death]

I agree, when I see a minority "professional" I run like hell. I don't want some dummy who got an admission into achool, or job, because of the color of his skin.

[wardaddy]

I think you meant Alcorn A&M or Jackson State or Mississippi Valley State.

[taxed2death]

Ha, Ha....I can almost spell today!

[driftless]

Unlike Reed I think that Blacks can do far more than they are doing, but he is right that nothing is expected of them. One think Reed doesn't bring up is that attitude I've often read and heard from certain liberals and Blacks (often the same people) is that no one ever earns their wealth or position of prominence. The current buzzword or phrase is "white privilege". In short they believe that having anything is just a matter of luck or who your parents were. Therefore anyone is qualified to do any job if they are trained correctly or merely put into positions of prominence.

The Bolsheviks believed this too and in the early days of the Russian Revolution used to remove non-commies from positions of importance and merely install some commie flunky often with disastrous consequences. Many times they had to reinstall the bourgeois competent person who was fired...that is if they hadn't already shot him or her. Todays liberals don't think much different.

[stands2reason]

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Well I feel sick about it. 20-30 years ago, black doctors were as qualified as whites, some even more so, due to discrimination. (If the doctor is over 50, I don't think you have a problem.) But any young black doctor nowadays is suspect. Never in my life would I judge someone's qualifications on skin color alone. But now because the schools do it--ie. black doctors don't have to be as qualified---I have no choice.

[stands2reason]

And where is it ever ever shown anywhere that the actual grades of black students don't reflect their performance, even if affirmative action played some role in their admissions???? Do you think professors actually grade black students differently???

The implementation of Affirmative Action coincided with the start of unprecedented grade inflation in even the best colleges across the nation. Do you think it's just coincidence that the average grade in many "black studies" programs, including Harvard's is an "A"? Are you aware how abysmally low the five-year graduation rate for blacks is at the top colleges? Do you really think it helps all these students who would flourish in a less competitive school (like equally qualified whites do) when they enroll in a school that's beyond their abilities and then, discouraged, they drop out?