Posted on 10/13/2016 9:33:15 AM PDT by rktman
When I hear whites speak like urban blacks I assume they have the same poor English skills; it isn’t flattering to blacks that more and more whites are as illiterate as so many urban blacks.
“Williams, who is 80 years old, explained, ‘when I got an ‘A’ it was an honest to God ‘A’ and when I got a ‘C’ it was an honest to God ‘C.’ They didn’t give a damn about my self-esteem.’”
Same here. Granted I’m 30 years younger than Mr. Williams, but it was the same for me. If I my grades were based on today’s criteria, I would have been valedictorian with a degree from MIT and a Rhodes Scholar to boot.
Pathetic what passes for an education today. At this rate in another 30 years the more educated a person is, the more delicate, weak, ignorant and incompetent that person will be.
With minority govt. quotas required for the universities, it was easier to pass a failing minority Obama and keep him in school than it was to flunk him out and find a replacement.
Without a doubt, those grades were reflective of my party attitude. Luckily I had acquired just enough intelligence by association with my parents to be able to skate by with passing grades while hardly cracking a book. My education really started after leaving school and upon entering the real world. Strangely enough my thirst for knowledge increased then as well.
One of my favorite Thomas Sowell stories is when he said he was so glad he got into Harvard BEFORE there was affirmative action!!!
I too love Walter Williams, God Bless him.
For a handful of years I taught at a technical college. The disparity in education in English and math between black students and white students was blatant. Same high school, same grades and the education level was at least 3-4 grades different. It was a small community college system in a mostly rural area so I can confidently say the comparison in many cases was “apples to apples.” As a drafting teacher I honestly spent many hours outside normal class time helping motivated black students learn the rudimentary English skills to write their resumes, cover letters and language that would be necessary for inter-office skills in a work environment. Math skills I spent valuable class time trying to bring the students up to speed in creating engineering and industrial drawings as math is CRITICAL in drafting. /soapbox (carefully backing away from box)
LOL! I used to have that stuck to the side of a file cabinet next to my desk back when I was working. Management decided it wasn’t as funny as I thought it was.
I have thought the same due to my own experience teaching in a community college. I was pressured by administration to keep "minorities" passing.
I am not a teacher by trade. I spent many years *doing* the job and made the career change because I felt I could make a difference in the quality of new graduates. When pressured to keep the minorities passing instead of handing out unearned grades I spent off hours tutoring the students to keep them at passing level. I had taken the job to improve the quality of fresh graduates in my field. It became crystal clear while working at the college where fault lay in the deficiencies of new graduates. Not with students but with administration.
great guy, period.
It amazes me how embracing the sub-culture of baggy pants, over-sized sports wear, over-sized and unlaced shoes, ball caps with flat bills turned sideways, lots of gold and lazy speech patterns makes non-black people think they’re in the cool crowd. They’re trying to be members of a club that wants nothing to do with them, no matter how they dress, talk or act.
Peach
Yes indeed
Do you recognize sarcasm and irony?
I’m 70. Graduated high school in 1964. Integration came in
the next year or two. I worked at Redstone that summer as
a clerk typist on the Saturn V project. When they went to
the moon a few years later, I was scared that I had typed
something wrong that would ruin the whole mission. (Like
they actually trusted me with anything that vital.) I had
never typed on an electric typewriter and had never seen
most of the mysterious symbols that were on the snap-in
IBM selectric keyboards. At 18, I used to stand on the
second floor balcony and watch as Werner VonBraun and his
team rode through the first floor work area where the
Saturn V rocket was being soldered together, inspecting
the work. - I just prayed I hadn’t loused up the whole
deal when the astronauts took off for the moon.
Actually, they really expected to lose MANY lives before
they ever made it to the moon; so they were happy that it
went as well as it did.
When I was younger they were “wannabes”; nowadays you’d be surprised by how many of those young whites have no job, no skills, drug habits, and children out of wedlock. Understandable when you consider many have the same future prospects as their urban brethren; I don’t think they’re acting anymore.
See # 18; I don’t think they’re “playing black” anymore.
I’ve read the interesting theory that blacks in the South picked up the rather unproductive Scots-Irish culture in the rural South that still holds Appalachia back, from high illegitimacy rates and high marriage breakup rates to low valuation of higher education.
Then blacks moved throughout the US after World War 2, taking that “red-neck” culture with them while moving into urban areas where it is even less successful than in rural areas where self-reliance through family networks is beneficial when the state is weak - and switching to reliance on the welfare with an already weak valuation of marriage so they quickly descended into entrenched intergenerational welfare and the chaos the lack of married fathers creates.
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