Justice Department Claims Virginia Beach Police Math Exam Discriminates Against Blacks, Hispanics

wavy.com ^ | 02/09/2006 | ap

[getitright]

"How insane can this possible get?"

I think the worm has turned. What helps is that we have come so far to eliminate discrimination. The result is a quickly growing black middle class. Blacks who work hard, play by the rules, make self sacrifices, and achieve will not tolerate the useless morons still begging for hand outs. They aint gonna let the pieces of schmidt ruin what they have toiled to obtain.

I will bet that there is more (probably silent) outrage over this in the black community than there is in the white.

[Wurlitzer]

"What is Fee-Fi-Fo, Fi-Fi-Fo-Fee? Mike Tyson's phone number. "

OR!

Ho-dee-doh, ho-dee-doh, ho-dee-doh

Mike Tyson and his 2 security guards running for an elevator.

[Coldwater Creek]

There are very few Blacks and Hispanics that live in VA. Beach. The one's that are complaining are probably from Norfolk or elsewhere.

[Wurlitzer]

"Yes. There are differences between the sexes and races. And it is not to be mentioned or talked about lest someone be offended."

And therein lies the real problem. If we refuse to discuss and identify any contributing factor in low scores, we can never apply possible learning solutions to those in need.

[Varda]

IQ tests by population test culture. Blacks who are raised with strong parental involvement test just as well as whites.
Asians have a culture of strong parental involvement as well as being the group with the lowest illegitimacy rate. I looked this up a couple years ago. I found a one to one correspondence between higher test scores and lower illegitimacy rates.

[monkapotamus]

Don't see that in print anywhere of late...Obviously just another Urban Legend, Right? ;^)

In my leftist indoctrination class (I mean ethnic studies), it was made clear that anyone who studies differences in IQ scores will be labeled a racist.

[FreedomPoster]

Politically incorrect to say that, but true.

[zook]

bump

[Rebelbase]

" Calypso Louie's Million Man Math course explains this discrimination."

My kid did his Black History month project on Louie and went into great detail about being beamed into the mother wheel and given the vision Colin Powell leading a war against the black people.

He even gets to read it out loud in class!

[yankeedame]

Isn't an average intelligence a basic requirement for most jobs?

Not for government jobs

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LOL! Well...yeah...

[pageonetoo]

So the qustion is then, where does this power come from to make this federal law?

Penumbra? Thin air? Their butts?

[somniferum]

'disparate impact' bttt

[yankeedame]

The auditions for the orchestra are conducted (pun) with the applicant playing behind a curtain where they can't be seen by the panel! The panel cannot tell if the applicant is a man, woman, black, white, Tibetan or Aleut. But somehow the process was determined to be racist just because not enough blacks made the grade.

Yes, I heard about this! And the worse part (or the best, depending on your point of view) was that when all the dust settled white males had won most of these "anonymous" auditions!

[jblair]

Darn, you beat me to it....

If a taco leaves Chicago heading east at 55mph, and a crackpipe departs Cleveland going west at 150mph...

just kidding

[Paleo Conservative]

With the move to semiautomatic pistols, police officers had to be able to count above 6

First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.

[dynachrome]

"The Bell Curve" by Charles Murray.
Asians do much better than whites as a whole. (which of course means they do a whole lot better than blacks. Dunno where Tiger Woods would fall, since he is "Cablasian")
Hard read with a lot of statistics.

[pabianice]

That's the inate problem with math. It automatically discriminates against people of color. Everyone knows that blacks lack the math gene. /sarcasm

[csvset]

Source

Here's a quote from the VBPD's chief,

“This is not a test we developed,” Jacocks said. “We are not looking for rocket scientists. This is a basic math aptitude test.”

Here's a sample question.

One sample question framed a problem in the context of police work: “On Tuesday, Officer Jones worked the 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. shift. At 10:55 p.m. he was called to the scene of an accident where he remained until 1:30 a.m. How long past his regular shift did Officer Jones work?”

Fwiw, Chief Jaycocks is in the Navy Reserve. My wife served in the same unit. He's a good guy. This lawsuit is BS.

[toddlintown]

2 + 2 = 4, no matter what your skin color or language.

[Condor51]

****just kidding****

So was I.
Probably Maybe in what the pc ninnies would label 'mean spirited', but this "Racist Test" nonsense deserves to be mocked.

It's not OUR (whites) fault that Blacks embrace the 'gangsta' lifestyle, or are "street smart", yet have an IQ of 32. Or that the stereotype for young Hispanics is that of a gang banger and illegal. Heck, look at the Jail Wars currently in CA, it's Blacks against Browns - period.

The bottom line is that Mathematics and tests in general are race neutral.