[mhking]

Black conservative ping

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[lepton]

Thanks.

As I've said before...money won't solve this problem. It is a cultural and familial problem, not one of poverty. Can others help? Sure - but it's on an individual basis - one government is singularly unsuited for. Holding people up to standards, and treating those that do achieve with proper respect and a refusal to accept that blacks are inferior no matter how much the whining are parts of the path. ...Of course, that applies to pretty much everyone.

[mafree]

Thanks for the ping.

I have to say that there is some "racial profiling" in schools in a couple of major ways:

1) Certain attitudes and actions are considered "acceptable" among many Blacks, including a little more outward vocal and physical expressiveness, which is sometimes misinterpreted as being too loud or even violent by Whites.

2. There are sometimes double standards and there are numerous instances where a Black student was disciplined more harshly than a White student for the same offense or in a Black-White conflict.

These things have happened, but it would be no more fair to paint all stories like this with the brush of "racial profiling" than it is to use the brush of theories like McWhorter's. To me both have some truth to them but neither fully explains the problem.

[rdb3]

Indeed, McWhorter and USA Today last week both focused on the affluent Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, where "studies found that blacks made up only 10% of the top performing students and 90% of the lowest performing students." USA Today points out that researchers "blame a variety of factors, including peer pressure, low parental expectations, too much television and the impact of rap culture on black students, including middle class students."

This is absolutely correct. Put another way, there ain't no broke people in Shaker! Kids I knew from there always went out of their way to give an image that they were from where I was (East Cleveland, err, the lower region of hell). It was so funny to me looking at these kids perp like they were "hard."

This is one area where American black parents and students are totally without excuse for failure.

[fineright]

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