[reaganaut1]

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.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

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.

[livius]

Yes, but has he been able to get the oceans to do his bidding yet?

[Tallguy]

And when Black test scores do not rise we’ll be treated to stories about “cultural Blackness”, hinting that BO “is not really Black.”

[DariusBane]

Thank goodness we finally got the test scores down on the Whites!!!!! Celebration Time!!!!!!!!!!

[autumnraine]

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.

[Izzy Dunne]

a performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a 20-question test administered before Mr. Obama’s nomination all but disappeared

Notice they don't say whether the blacks did better or the whites did worse.

[ravingnutter]

Oh good grief...another Obama "miracle", LOL! Here was the first one:

Diane Sawyer: "Barack Obama President Only 3 Days And Already Cripples Can Walk!"

[Arrowhead1952]

They are talking about this on KLBJ today, but I call BS or the “dumbing down” effect from the publik sckhroul sistim.

[petro45acp]

That’s just PEACHY!

All this new talent shows up just in time for socialism! Nationalizing business will squelch innovation and stagnate growth!

ruefully

[Uncle Miltie]

Proving Affirmative Action is no longer needed.

Right?

[jessduntno]

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...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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.

[Venturer]

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.

[Califreak]

More evidence of the typical American’s stupidity that bred the mass hysteria that flung this fraud to 1600.

[Hacklehead]

Obama is like Global Warming. He has the power to effect everything.

[cripplecreek]

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".

[metalcor]

Bad news for the NFL and NBA if true.

[D-fendr]

One of the executive orders signed yesterday made the White House a “Grill-Free Zone”...

[Tijeras_Slim]

Sure this isn’t one of yours? :)

[CharlieOK1]

The Question I have had all along: What if we had elected a black Republican? Would we have the same level of excitement?