If merely electing a black president could make blacks "act white" in terms of academic performance, crime, and family stability, it might be worth it. Obama supports an expansion of the welfare state that will have the opposite effects. I think the Times really wants to believe in an "Obama effect". Let's see if the scores of blacks improve in large samples like the SAT or the tests used in NCLB.
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To: reaganaut1
As a side benefit, if we could somehow compost all the fawning press manure spewed out over our great Zero, we’d probably end up free of foreign oil as well.
2 posted on
01/23/2009 7:44:49 AM PST by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
To: reaganaut1
Yes, but has he been able to get the oceans to do his bidding yet?
3 posted on
01/23/2009 7:46:06 AM PST by
livius
To: reaganaut1
And when Black test scores do not rise we’ll be treated to stories about “cultural Blackness”, hinting that BO “is not really Black.”
4 posted on
01/23/2009 7:46:08 AM PST by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: reaganaut1
Thank goodness we finally got the test scores down on the Whites!!!!! Celebration Time!!!!!!!!!!
5 posted on
01/23/2009 7:46:18 AM PST by
DariusBane
(I've got a bracelet too :))
To: reaganaut1
I actually love what Will Smith said on Oprah. “You have no more excuses. All gone”.
I hope it’s the truth, but I’m not real optimistic.
To: reaganaut1
a performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a 20-question test administered before Mr. Obamas nomination all but disappeared Notice they don't say whether the blacks did better or the whites did worse.
7 posted on
01/23/2009 7:47:27 AM PST by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: reaganaut1
To: txflake
They are talking about this on KLBJ today, but I call BS or the “dumbing down” effect from the publik sckhroul sistim.
9 posted on
01/23/2009 7:50:39 AM PST by
Arrowhead1952
(Dissent is patriotic - Hussein is not and will never be my president.)
To: reaganaut1
That’s just PEACHY!
All this new talent shows up just in time for socialism! Nationalizing business will squelch innovation and stagnate growth!
ruefully
10 posted on
01/23/2009 7:50:43 AM PST by
petro45acp
(CRA, UAW, public education, decline of the republic, IT'S THE DIMS' FAULT!)
To: reaganaut1
Proving Affirmative Action is no longer needed.
Right?
11 posted on
01/23/2009 7:50:43 AM PST by
Uncle Miltie
(Dissent is Patriotic. Palin 2012!)
To: reaganaut1
This outdoes the standard liberal BS these NYT clowns regularly churn out. This “report” is total fabrication - an unbelievably moronic piece of nonsense. And yes, I DO have degrees in Psychology. There is no evidence for this drivel...the NYT ship of fools has slipped its mooring...
“The study has not yet undergone peer review, and two academics who read it on Thursday said they would be interested to see if other researchers would be able to replicate its results.”
Harumph...whoever would sign off on something like this is a bigger fraud than those who would bother reporting it...anyone who would “replicate” it would become King of Fools...God help us, they want us to think that Obomber is making kids smarter by being President...I’m going to have to go lie down now...
14 posted on
01/23/2009 7:52:53 AM PST by
jessduntno
(Barack - Kenyan for "High Wind, Big Thunder, No Rain")
To: reaganaut1
See! ...See!
It was just their lack of self-esteem that was the problem.
The endemic gangster culture that they embrace has nothing to do with it.
16 posted on
01/23/2009 7:54:02 AM PST by
E. Pluribus Unum
(You give peace a chance. I'll stay back here and cover you, just in case it don't work out.)
To: reaganaut1
All of this by just electing the Mullatto Obama, think of what we would have gotten if we had elected a real black man, Say Rodney King.
17 posted on
01/23/2009 7:54:57 AM PST by
Venturer
To: reaganaut1
More evidence of the typical American’s stupidity that bred the mass hysteria that flung this fraud to 1600.
18 posted on
01/23/2009 7:55:02 AM PST by
Califreak
(What's black and white and red all over? My hero, Zero.)
To: reaganaut1
Obama is like Global Warming. He has the power to effect everything.
21 posted on
01/23/2009 7:57:06 AM PST by
Hacklehead
(Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
To: reaganaut1
If merely electing a black president could make blacks "act white" in terms of academic performance, crime, and family stability
There might actually be something to that. In all my years in factories working with blacks, I've found that the peer pressure to avoid selling out to whitey can be pretty effective.
Years ago there was a black line worker in the bindery I worked at. He was a smart kid with plenty of potential so I asked my boss if I could begin training the kid for my job. It would have nearly tripled his wages and he was a bright kid.
I started training him but noticed that a lot of other blacks in the shop harassed him by calling him Uncle Tom and "my boy". Finally it just got to be too much and he said he didn't want to do the job. He explained "I've gotta live in the same neighborhood with those guys".
22 posted on
01/23/2009 7:57:23 AM PST by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: reaganaut1
Bad news for the NFL and NBA if true.
23 posted on
01/23/2009 7:58:41 AM PST by
metalcor
One of the executive orders signed yesterday made the White House a “Grill-Free Zone”...
24 posted on
01/23/2009 7:59:29 AM PST by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: John Semmens
Sure this isn’t one of yours? :)
To: reaganaut1
The Question I have had all along: What if we had elected a black Republican? Would we have the same level of excitement?
27 posted on
01/23/2009 8:24:32 AM PST by
CharlieOK1
(Don't blame me, I voted for Sarah)
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