Posted on 09/14/2010 11:48:15 AM PDT by TruthHound
The white liberal’s agenda, coupled with that of black race hustlers, has had and continues to have a devastating impact on ordinary black people. Perhaps the most debilitating aspect of this liberal malevolence is in the area of education.
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Under misguided diversity pressures, colleges recruit many black students who are academically ill equipped. Very often, these students become quickly disillusioned, embarrassed and flunk out, or they’re steered into curricula that have little or no academic content, or professors practice affirmative-action grading. In any case, the 12 years of poor academic preparation is not repaired in four or five years of college. This is seen by the huge performance gap between blacks and whites on exams for graduate school admittance such as the GRE, MCAT and LSAT.
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It appears that university standards in virtually all areas in the lib arts areas have been dramatically lowered.
(Yes, I know there are plenty of lib arts types out there who have very strong educations - and I believe that these folks should be yelling the loudest in support of forcing universities to make sure that their degree certificates mean something. After all - the Dung-Beetle-in-Chief actually has a law degree from Harvard - ‘nuff said.)
Massachusetts is WAY ahead with this poison. During my college freshman year 45 years ago, my dorm floor had two utterly unfit kids accepted so Amherst Liberals could be proud of themselves. Despite being born in the USA, one kid could not speak or spell English. The second was a little psychopath who threw cats out the dorm windows (19th floor) and set random fires on campus and in the dorm. By the end of our first semester they were both gone, after having interfered with everyone’s education. But the Libs felt so GOOD about “letting them have an opportunity for an education...”
Everything that happens in politics is foreseen and therefore intended. The left knew that it was keeping Blacks down and dependent - and voting democrat.
The breakup of the family, the racism of lowered expectations, the poor self-image were all foreseen and therefore intended. The left is criminally responsible for the state of the Black family.
Ah, yes, the ambiance of SW Commons.
Sorry I have diversity fatigue. Folks ya just gotta take care of yourself.
We had a guy on my floor who utterly shouldn't have been there. This was 37 years ago. He was a member of an ethnic minority. Word was he had multiple scholarships, was using one to pay tuition room and board and somehow pocketing the rest. He was a one-man crime wave. He lasted a year, then vanished back to NYC.
Conservatives need some balls and need to tell the truth.
I seriously believe that liberals have done harm to the Black race in America over the last 40 years than all the previous racism combined. At least with slavery and Jim Crow, Black folks had to find ways to survive without any welfare state and there is at least some dignity in that. There was dignity in accomplishing something in life despite all odds without the White liberal massa.
Somebody needs to explain to me how putting Black people on the White liberal government plantation and enslaving them is any better than forcing them to work on a real plantation.
I can’t think of anything more soul destroying than waiting around for the crumbs of White liberals, who have confiscated the crumbs from the productive and law abiding to feed their nefarious and evil agenda.
I wonder what Obama’s scores are?
The utter devastation to black educational standards can be graphically illustrated as having a distinctive start point, and a single villain and his cohorts who were responsible.
The villain was Noam Chomsky, leftist-anarchist extraordinare(ily) long winded. It was he, et al., who created “English whole language” instruction.
At the time, black students, even in poor schools, learned English phonetically, and were close to being on a par with white students on objective examinations. As were the rest of their grades, less a small difference from their disadvantaged backgrounds and fewer school resources.
Had this continued unchecked, by now, black Americans would have been economically on a par with white Americans.
Enter Noam Chomsky and friends. Wherever their cancerous ideas were spread, students of all colors suffered terribly in their performance. But the white schools rapidly noted the problem and corrected it. Poor black schools did not. The result was startling.
With no other explanation, black test scores plummeted. Denied a proper understanding of the language, every other subject followed suit. The effect was as bad as if they had been denied any education in English at all, and were still illiterate.
And this villainy continues today. The leftist-socialists in academia embraced “English whole language”, as a doctrine of faith in their religion, using every rationalization and conspiracy theory they could devise to explain why even though it was an utter, complete failure, it was actually far superior to teaching English with phonics.
That is, much like the rationalizations they use to justify things like socialized medicine, the welfare state, bloated and egregiously expensive deficit government, etc.
But the devastation this has made to black Americans has been horrific. It could even be said that Noam Chomsky has done more to “keep the black man down”, than did Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy.
Black Americans should have nothing but seething hatred for Chomsky and those of his ilk. By tearing down their quality of education, much of black America has been consigned to second class, welfare-prison status. They have been impoverished as a people, devastated by crime and gangsterism, and relegated to living in deplorable conditions in grinding poverty in a cycle of despair.
Leftists spent trillions of dollars and 60 years destroying the black race in order to make certain of 95% of the black vote. They are not ABOUT to allow blacks to become well enough educated to seek employment and perhaps vote REPUBLICAN!!
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This young man’s background is far from unique. Public schools give most black students fraudulent diplomas that certify a 12th-grade achievement level. According to a report by Abigail Thernstrom, “The Racial Gap in Academic Achievement,” black students in 12th grade dealt with scientific problems at the level of whites in the sixth grade; they wrote about as well as whites in the eighth grade. The average black high school senior had math skills on a par with a typical white student in the middle of ninth grade. The average 17-year-old black student could only read as well as the typical white child who had not yet reached age 13.
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Sad. Very sad. Even sadder is the fact that this is the exception and not the rule. The rule is that even fewer blacks are even graduating high school and are going to college.
But you wanna know what is at the root of all this?
Illegitimacy. When the black illegitimacy rates are 70-80 percent - there is no chance of attaining a decent education.
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