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To: chickadee
How true. I recently purchased a new computer at Best Buy and the sales assistant, an African American, said he was thinking of going back to college to “earn” his masters in Africology.

Well, I suppose he will still be at Best Buy afterward. Unless he is programmed to resent working for The Man.

A lack of critical thinking, to ask the question, "What will these studies gain me, and what career or earnings benefit do they have?" does not seem to be an encouraging predictor.

Until we dispose of this kind of foolishness, people will be burdened with student loans for absolutely no gain. What a scam.

And where would the "professors" be?

19 posted on 05/09/2010 5:55:30 AM PDT by Gorzaloon (CNN:AP:etc:Today, President Obama's stool was firm and well-formed. One end was slightly pointed. ")
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To: Gorzaloon

The universities created this problem themselves (segregated, useless disciplines like Africology, Women’s Studies, etc.) when they refused to honor the spirit of Affirmative Action when it was imposed on colleges receiving federal funding.

The intent was to include minorities in the general hiring pools for all disciplines. Instead, to meet their quotas for minority hiring, they created these grievance departments, which must grow ever more radical to gain attention (i.e. funding) - and minority hiring in real disciplines is still woefully low.


22 posted on 05/09/2010 6:05:16 AM PDT by chickadee
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