Posted on 02/10/2018 9:06:09 AM PST by vox humana
Students, parents and staff at C.K. McClatchy High School are upset over a science fair project by a student in its elite magnet program that questioned whether certain races of people lack the intelligence to handle the program’s academically challenging coursework.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article199440204.html#storylink=cpy
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Again I thank you. I have been increasingly appalled at the posts by CT. Your civility in responding to CT is admirable.
Just Google the article ... the origins of political correctness.
[“Ive met enough smart black people that I am dubious of that graphic.”
Go to an inner city area or an African nation and meet the rest of them.]
Good one.
I saw all the inner city blacks I ever want to when I was in the Seattle civil rights Movement in the 1960’s.
That’s why I quit the civil rights movement.
California has no death penalty but Im sure they will make an exception here
BTTT...
“Since 2000 they have had a fairly impressive rise” to a per capita GDP of $4,604.
I’m impressed.
“Kenya even bigger”, to $3,657.07.
Even more impressed. Not, I think, in the way you would like me to be.
And both countries owe any advancement at all to?
You answered it yourself:
“UK colonial administration”.
They say “per capita”, but the wealth is all in the hands of a few select dictators. The average person lives in abject poverty.
You’re appalled by truths. That’s sad for you.
“Out-of-the-chute, so to speak, we, more or less, on average, start on a level playing field across races. “
That’s total nonsense taught in public schools.
I stand by the Bell Curve based on results worldwide.
“Even more impressed. Not, I think, in the way you would like me to be”
Be snobbish all you want, as people in the West love to think what we have today is what always has and always will be, but for them that is a good uptick from before, and affords lots of people a comfortable life.
“And both countries owe any advancement at all to?”
Neither have been colonies for half a century. That’s like giving Obama credit for the market today.
Look at both countries pre-colonization. Then tell me there’s the remotest chance for their being any more than that without it.
And the United States would not exist without colonization. This is a nation of pioneers and colonists, not immigrants or natives.
Thank you for reinforcing my point.
Whoa! The ones at the bottom average in the sixties? How do they even function?
No. I am appalled by the racist conclusions you have drawn by selective reading of limited data. Your comments about Blacks in general were extremely nasty and went far beyond a discussion about the merits of performance on IQ tests.
Mic drop.
Whatever disparity there may be in intelligence as it relates to race, it is my view that it is largely a result of the difference within the home about education and disciplined study habits.
Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell, George Washington Carver, etc. are as brilliant as any white man, EVER. Add to that, the black women who were the subject of the movie, “Hidden Figures” and their huge contribution to NASA.
A lot of those with IQs in the 60’s function with our tax dollars.
Not sure what IQ proves about an individual’s character.
We need to go back to merit based school admissions and hiring because the whole affirmative action business is what keeps this divisive discussion going.
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Your following statement goes a long way to answer your prevailing question.
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