Colleges Struggle to Help Black Men Stay Enrolled

NY Times ^ | December 30, 2003 | KAREN W. ARENSON

[neverdem]

FWIW, lets not forget all the trouble caused by the feminists. How else do you have classes like this? Imagine what would happen if there were classes just for white males. Happy New Year

[JustPlainJoe]

-"Researchers say the obstacles keeping black men from earning college degrees include poor education before college, the low expectations that teachers and others have for them, a lack of black men as role models, their dropout rate from high school and GEORGE W. BUSH!"-

[AppyPappy]

He also told them about trips he had made to stores recently, dressed in jeans and sneakers, and being followed by security guards

Hell, I'd drop out of college too if that happened to me.

[ken5050]

It's way to unPC to ask why are they in college in the first place...of course, they're really NOT, because they're doing High school work....employers in NYC know that the valus of the HS degree, and even the local college degrees, are worthless...

[shotgun]

Here are two answers: 1) Increase the number of players on the basketball team from 12 to 250 (all on scholarship BTW)or 2) prevent them from going into the NBA before they graduate...

[B.L. Zebub]

Things were not going well on the job, either. He skipped a day of work, he said, because he had no money.

Well, he may be a total loser, but his skin pigmentation is way cool!

[Kozak]

One problem was money. He started a job at the college television studio — a job Dr. Jackson lined up for him — but he said that working 25 hours a week interfered with his studying.

Things were not going well on the job, either. He skipped a day of work, he said, because he had no money. He could have walked to work, but he said it was hard to walk around school with nothing in his pocket.

Oh boo frickin hoo. Whines because he can't manage a part time job, whines because he has no money. Gee, I guess no else has ever had to overcome such insuperable obstacles.

[AdamSelene235]

As a black man, he is also a rare commodity that the college, part of the City University of New York, is eager to hold on to

Nice, institutionalized racism has taken us back 150 years to a time where human beings were considered commodities due to their skin color.

[ClearCase_guy]

Isn't great that we have progressed to a society where skin pigmentation is so important? When the government hands out labor contracts what do they want to know? Is your skin the right color. When the schools treat students as commodities, how can we tell which commodity has more value? Check the color. This is what Liberals want. It's different in degree (but not in kind) from Jim Crow. And remember, Jim Crow was put in place by the Democrats, a long time ago.

[pogo101]

Colleges Struggle to Help Black Men Stay Enrolled

"White students, however, can go s***w themselves."

/sarcasm

[mountaineer]

working 25 hours a week interfered with his studying.

You are so right, my brotha! I worked 20 hours per week during college, and I managed 4.0s only five of my eight semesters there. If I had worked another five hours per week, I might have graduated with really low grades, like B+ or something!

[Old Professer]

A college class that teaches students to bring books to school has a long hard road ahead.

[SpinyNorman]

Researchers say the obstacles keeping black men from earning college degrees include poor education before college, the low expectations that teachers and others have for them, a lack of black men as role models, their dropout rate from high school and their own low aspirations.

Is it just me, or are every one of these "obstacles" under the firm control of the liberal teacher's unions, or so called "black leaders?"

Seriously, with role models like Walter Williams, one of my personal role models, how can they claim not to have educated black men as role models? Nobody can seriously say blacks are any less intelligent than whites, or in this case, black women. Maybe a little less hero worship of NBA players and rappers, and a little more positive reinforcement in the form of elevating, rather than criticizing and ostracizing those regarded by mot blacks as "Uncle Toms" and "Aunt Jemimahs" might do more for their self esteem and eventual success than the current methods.

[BMiles2112]

He also told them about trips he had made to stores recently, dressed in jeans and sneakers, and being followed by security guards
Maybe he should have put a shirt on.

[AppyPappy]

Racist

[Spok]

I'm someone knows where this came from, but this story is so good it's worth repeating:
My grandfather could not get into Harvard because he was Jewish. Then came the civil rights movement and affirmative action. Now, I can't get into Harvard because I'm Jewish...

[Benrand]

Recently, Howard University, a historically black college in Washington, D.C., sponsored a symposium on the absence of black men in higher education. Women outnumber men by about 2 to 1 at Howard.

Woah! get me some shoe polish!

[aliquis]

...Researchers say the obstacles keeping black men from earning college degrees include poor education before college, the low expectations that teachers and others have for them, a lack of black men as role models, their dropout rate from high school and their own low aspirations...

Well, that's a relief, then. Thank god, it's not their fault. They just have a cannot-cope-with-my-life compulsive disorder. Or, alternatively, it's the collective greedy hand of 'Stupid White Men'...

[mountaineer]

Shoved off the college prep track, they begin a "cycle of being reprimanded, disciplined and ultimately suspended for negative behavior," she said, leading to expulsion, unemployment and even crime and imprisonment.

Of course, these young men are not responsible for their own "negative" behavior, and therefore should not be expected to suffer the consequences, e.g., punishment.