Why Cal State struggles to graduate Black students — and what could be done

Cal Matters ^ | AUGUST 22, 2022 | MIKHAIL ZINSHTEYN, MICHAELLA HUCK AND JULIE WATTS

[artichokegrower]

The Cal State system graduates Black students at lower rates than other groups. Students, scholars and advocates say the reasons are myriad.

[rlmorel]

In my opinion, the “family problem” you refer to is what I refer to as “Black Culture”, and it is a poisonous and corrosive culture.

It is the culture eschewed by men like Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas.

It is the culture that glorifies violence, promotes the idiotic “cult of respect” (which often results in violence) disparages those who embrace scholastics and learning, demeans women, and results in 77% of black children being born out of wedlock and growing up without a father in the house.

That is the most destructive culture in this country right now, bar none, especially when you consider that 40% of all rapes, murders, armed assaults, and felonious battery in the United States are committed by probably 2% of the population at most.

I work with plenty of hard-working, capable, black men and women, but they are fighting an uphill battle if they are contending with the wider, destructive Black Culture described above.

[InterceptPoint]

Yes, you have it right about what I referred to as a “family problem”. It is at its root a cultural problem. The black people that I have known in my life, high school, college and in the workforce, had overcome the negative influence of black culture. They were just like you and me.

But those guys and gals are the exception. Unfortunately I don’t see things getting better anytime soon. We have government that pays black women if they have no breadwinner in their home, lowers educational standards for blacks and puts in place programs to promote backs to universities and jobs where they do not have the knowledge or education to succeed.

If you are a Dem, this is a big plus. It keeps those blacks “on the farm”. If you are a humanitarian, in any sense of the word, it is criminal.

[rlmorel]

Yes. It astonishes me how many blacks cannot understand that the Democrat party is not their friend and ally.

The Democrat Party views them as a resource to be mined for votes. They have a vested interest in keeping them “on the plantation” and dependent on them. The range of the malpractice of the Democrat party ranges from the expressly racist “soft bigotry of low expectations” to the epidemic of abortion in the black community as a form of birth control which encourages both welfare dependency through those black babies not aborted, and provides a justification for black men who don’t feel a need to be a provider for their progeny.

I have always thought one of the best things about conservatism is that our policies help everyone, whether they want to be helped or not, or are even actively opposed to it. That may sound counterintuitive until you consider that our solutions involve getting the government intrusion out of our lives, so that if someone wants the government to intrude, that will only be a problem for them.

[wardaddy]

Grandfathering in existing slaves north and south would have been wise and before the cotton gin which increased slaves exponentially since it opened the Deep South and old southwest to cotton production

Even as a southerner I lament in strongest terms importing stone aged bondage of a certain hue here

They have not assimilated like slaves did for Romans or Greeks after manumission

When I grew up we were honest about tribal Africa and slave conditions and life quality and expectancy and the concept of freedom where they were sold from and the level of civilization they left

That ship has sailed obviously and is helping to destroy not only us but the west

Throw in non binary sexual ambiguity and Wokeness as the new Christianity