Posted on 12/23/2009 6:26:50 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (1010 WINS) -- An eighth grade honor student from Englewood, New Jersey, was hospitalized after being jumped and badly beaten Friday by as many as 11 students, police said.
David Muneton, 13, was recovering after reconstructive surgery to his face but was in danger of losing his eyesight.
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Function: noun
Date: 1933
1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
2 : racial prejudice or discrimination — rac·ist \-sist also -shist\ noun or adjective
I admonish everyone NOT to
google “what is it like to teach black students christopher jackson”
and definitely don’t read any of the links that come up if you do.
Didn’t take your advice. Read it and found it remarkedly objective and true. I would offer that my experience is that blacks do well when they make up less than 10% of the majority, they progressively do poorer as this 10% threshold is exceeded. At some point, say around 20 or 25%, the wheels come off and they are only concerned with the judgement of their “bros”. In the Marines we see this happen and call it the “black shack” phenomena. This phenomena also works for Mexican Americans (especially true of Pendleton Marines). Organizationally, you must constantly measure the amount of whites to blacks and Mexicans to avoid the phenomena. As long as whites comprise roughly 60 to 70% of the unit, the unit will function well. Cross that line and the military culture quickly evaporates. Lately, I have seen a lot of problems with these percentages in the Navy aboard certain classes of ships. The counter intuitive notion that more black officers need to be promoted to balance out the officer corps has caused a situation where white sailors and officers fear serving under black skippers. They rightly fear a loss of military discipline which puts them at personal risk. So far, I have never seen this happen in ground combat units for the simple reason that blacks avoid combat specialties. In an infantry unit, it is much more likely to find whites and Mexicans/Puerto Ricans/Cubans, than to find blacks. The percentages I am used to seeing is 75% white, 12% Mex/Rican/Cuban/etc, and the remainder black. Whites and latins function well. Blacks function well under this mix. As you move from combat units to combat support and combat service support you find an increasing percentage of blacks. This is where you are likely to find trouble spots (where the density of blacks increases so does your problems). Enjoyed the read. Mr. Jackson sounds like a true “teacher”. Sorry I did not get to study under someone like him - I had too many green horned women teachers in my time. Merry Christmas
Where are the comments? Have they been removed?
Well, I’m certainly glad I don’t fit that definition,
because I believe CULTURE to be the primary determinant of behaviors.
I just checked and it looks like it. There were close to 600 this morning, and a number of them were over the top.
Me too. In America we have a culture where liberals do their best to instill the “victomology” world view in all minorities, especially blacks.
Christopher Jackson’s essay however is %100 racist.
I had a pretty good guess about things going into the article and it was confirmed, but even with that I’d say an astonishing proportion of the comments as of last night were jawdroppingly racist.
The “urban” culture is just so insanely toxic. It’s not about the color of the skin...it’s the culture.
Is it true, though?
I really don’t give a damn about the “racist” word or concept.
In order to correct a problem, you have to truthfully identify the problem.
Is what true?
That blacks only listen to one kind of music?
That black chicks think being fat is the bomb?
That there is such thing as a “white culture”?
What’s true is that teaching a bunch of inner city kids whose parents are either on the dole or in jail and think that the world owes them free lunch and brekfess is tough, regardless of the color of their skin.
And to do that you must first OPEN YOUR D*MN EYES.
Troof, dat.
To clarify MrB, I know you are not “racis”. I’ve read many of your post over the years.
I’ll just say that you or any number of other freepers could do a much better job of describing the problem than Mr. Jackson.
Merry Christmas!
Hard-hitting, eye-opening essay. Matches EXACTLY the experiences of some close friends of mine who attended predominately black high schools.
Yes the comments have been removed. The comments would have been removed here too, at least 1/2 of them. Luckily Lawrence Auster at View From The Right saved them at his sight, google VFR it’s about five down.
A lot of folks will read my
“pissed off at the victimhood mentality” attitude
as
“racist”.
Dagnabbit - this is the country and society where you are MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED if you put forth the effort and stop acting like you do!
That’s “Racist”!
The problem is that the use of the term ‘racist’ is itself a disfunctional liberal thought- pattern that many who consider themselves conservative have fallen captive to. You insist that “it is their culture” as a chatechism, when in fact there is overwhelming evidence that it’s a whole lot more than that.
Insisting that it is all cultural is akin to the global warmers insisting over and over that “the science is settled” when it clearly is not, and in fact points in the other direction. in both cases the fundamental intellectual dishonesty is compounded by labeling those who choose to differ with liberal orthodoxy with pejoritive labels. “Deniers”. “Racists”.
People who toss such terms around are neo- conservatives, at best. That is they have carried over into conservatism the fundamental world views of liberalism and wish to enforce them on Conservatives.
Ultimately false- reality based faux- consevatism fails, whether it is neo- con nation building, big government conservatism, or unrealistic racial nostrums.
My time in the corp when the AA got together rank went out the door. We had an older L/cpl and he literally ran the roost because he was about 30 years old and the Sgts and SNCOs went to him and got his approval.
Maybe you meant to reply to someone else?
I didn’t insist anything about “their culture”.
If you ascribe character traits, good or bad, to people based on their race, than you are racist and ignorant.
Merry Christmas!
Al Sharpton lives in Englewood.
nuff said
Yes, but nobody KNOWS. I have not seen one solitary piece of evidence. I Even posted an “All” question on another 300-plus-post here asking if anyone knew for sure...crickets.
Where are the comments?
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