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To: nmh

I’m ready for the flames, but here goes. After raising kids and observing grand kids I can’t help but draw one conclusion. It’s nature, not nuture. I think culture reflects the basic reality of the abilities of the individuals, not the other way around. There are exceptions to the bell curve, but there are truths in the old saws like “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”. I know it’s not P.C., but some things just stare you in the face.


13 posted on 06/10/2010 6:30:49 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: Gadsden1st

DISAGREE.

Keeping black children in inferior schools has a lot to do with the economic plight of the black family.

Race hustlers convincing the black population that they can’t succeed due to the white man keeping them down.

Elites creating a welfare system designed to keep blacks in their place.... At the bottom of the economic ladder and beholden to the race hustlers both black and white.


21 posted on 06/10/2010 6:48:48 AM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: Gadsden1st

The “bell shaped curve” has yet to be proven wrong ... .

How that for being unpc?


26 posted on 06/10/2010 6:58:53 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Gadsden1st
I’m ready for the flames, but here goes. After raising kids and observing grand kids I can’t help but draw one conclusion. It’s nature, not nuture. I think culture reflects the basic reality of the abilities of the individuals, not the other way around. There are exceptions to the bell curve, but there are truths in the old saws like “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”. I know it’s not P.C., but some things just stare you in the face...

Why, it's Jimmy the Greek!!!

There's no doubt that individuals differ. There's some people that you just know...their highest and greatest calling is working on a construction site.

But that's a very broad brush you're painting with there. One of the most successful people I know is one of the least bright people you could imagine. But he's got a first-class temperment and what we refer to as "middle class" values. He owns an alarm clock, and he uses it. He doesn't make excuses for himself.

The reasons for his success have nothing to do with the color of his skin, but his temperment and his values.

We all use so little of our potential...that's one crime. Preventing others from using more of theirs...that's a crime against humanity.

It's not a matter of race, but a matter of VALUES...and a matter of faith.

30 posted on 06/10/2010 7:08:59 AM PDT by gogeo ("Every one has a right to be an idiot. He abuses the privilege!" Groucho Marx)
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