Are blacks too dumb to compete? (Joseph Farrah Commentary)

World Net Daily ^ | 10/17/2012 | Joseph Farrah

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There was a time in America when a black man was scandalously counted as three-fifths of a man for congressional apportionment.

(By the way, it was the Southern slave states that wanted blacks counted 100 percent for apportionment while northeasterners wanted them not to count at all. This was the compromise worked out.)

History is repeating itself in Florida and Virginia – and, I’m sure other states to come.

It’s not that Democrats don’t want to count black votes any more. In fact, they’d count them all twice if they could. Instead, mostly Democratic school officials in these states have created new academic goals that hold blacks to a lower standard than whites and Asians.

In other words, the so-called “progressives” running the education establishment in virtually every state as well as Washington don’t believe blacks are capable of achieving the same standards to which whites and Asians are held. That’s why I call “progressives” what they should accurately be called – “retrogressives.” Quite literally, on matters of race, they want to go back to the plantation mentality.

So performance goals are now curved on the basis of race – thanks to those politicians that blacks consider to be, for some reason, their friends.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Last week, the Florida state Board of Education approved a new six-year strategic plan with student-achievement goals that vary based upon race, income, disability and English proficiency. For example, Florida hopes to have 86 percent of white students at or above grade level in math, but for black students the goal is 74 percent.

This is insulting, degrading, counter-productive, unfair, racist, demeaning and hurtful to blacks.

That’s exactly what Jacksonville mom Dwan Johnson, an African-American, thought when she called the state’s action “embarrassing.”

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RE: Do you have to ask????????????????

Why direct the question to me? That was not my question.

[spawn44]

Quit babying them by playing the race card every time one fails. You will be surprised how quickly they recover and learn from failure. Just like everyone else.

[ex91B10]

Blacks should be raising hell at the admission by the elite that they are the dullest tools in the shed.

The Kenyan must go.

[B4Ranch]

“It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the State [instead of colonizing them]? Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites, ten thousand recollections by the blacks of the injuries they have sustained, new provocations, the real distinctions which nature has made, and many other circumstances will divide us into parties and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.” —Thomas Jefferson: