It hurts those who are qualified, but have to learn at a lower level than they can operate at, cutting short their educational opportunities. It also hurts those who can do well in life, but they don’t quite operate at a level required by a decent college.
Due to the Bell curve, not everyone is intellectually qualified to attend college.
Yeah, but it creates lots of embittered, angry adults who are easy for the left to radicalize.
I read and re-read this essay and still don’t have a clue what the author is saying or proposing. It’s mostly a bunch of mealy-mouthed mush with an undertone of “whites are racist oppressors.”
He seems to get to his point at the very end when he writes “...we need an economy that offers a truly diverse set of career paths to match the diversity of individual strengths and interests.”
But I’m still not sure what a “truly diverse set of career paths” means.
There are tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of career opportunities out there. There are thousands of different types of businesses. There are 33 million companies in the USA. There are thousands of different professions.
There is something for everyone in our amazing economy.
BUT, to succeed, you have to want it, have to have the inner drive, have to get educated, have to show up on time, have to be willing to do grunt work for a long while to pay your dues, have to show up sober, have to get along with your coworkers and respect your boss. Or break out on your own and go for it. Opportunity is unlimited here.
Nothing is holding you back. The rules of success haven’t changed, but the racist views of business have gained ridiculous traction.
I remember reading a fascinating article by Thomas Sowell several decades ago. He was addressing the fact that black students had poor graduation rates at elite schools. He claimed that contrary to popular opinion, there were plenty of lower-income black kids that could do well at elite schools, but admission directors passed them over because they were too “middle class”, and instead chose the more confrontational kids.
Wells Fargo guy is correct.
They for the most part believe they work way harder than tbey do, and expect reawrds and promotions way sooner and more often than they occur.
In short they believe life is a movie montage.
IQ is genetic. If there’s inbreeding, it gets even lower.
They are at the bottom of the list of people to be admitted into collages, they are not the flavor of the month minority, they are not from families that are well enough off to put them in the special programs that would move them up the list and their parents have no connections to get them in.
When they apply for jobs they are often told they need a degree for jobs where no degree is required. Once again since they will not add "diversity" to the company they are at the bottom of the list of people to be hired the first laid off and rarely promoted.
Nobody wants to talk about it.
America needs to stop making race sensitive excuses.
The only time I think about my ethnic heritage - northern Europe - is when the Political Left compels me to think about it.
Basic genetics make at least 50% of the decisions that determine how you make a living.
The other 50% is a mixture of good luck, bad luck, hard work, honesty, and will power.
The list of the things I can NEVER do is almost endless.
However, I am fully qualified to write Comments, and Free Republic pays me exactly what I am worth.
Inequality as well as stupidity.
Silly, you have been extorted into hiring unskilled, uneducated people solely on the color of thier skin.
Why go to college when you can make $300 a hr dealing DOPE?