How white liberals use government schools to keep blacks on the plantation

[Mornac]

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Racial Stupidity and Malevolence

by Walter E. Williams
09/08/2010

The white liberal's agenda, coupled with that of black race hustlers, has had and continues to have a devastating impact on ordinary black people. Perhaps the most debilitating aspect of this liberal malevolence is in the area of education.

Recently, I spoke with a Midwestern university engineering professor who was trying to help an inner-city black student who was admitted to the university's electrical engineering program. The student was sure that he was well prepared for an engineering curriculum; his high school had convinced him of that and the university recruiters supported that notion. His poor performance on the university's math placement exam required that he take remedial math courses. He's failed them and is now on academic probation after two semesters of earning less than a 2.0 grade point average.

The young man and his parents were sure of his preparedness. After all, he had good high school grades, but those grades only meant that he was well behaved. The college recruiters probably knew this youngster didn't have the academic preparation for an electrical engineering curriculum. They were more concerned with racial diversity.

This young man's background is far from unique. Public schools give most black students fraudulent diplomas that certify a 12th-grade achievement level. According to a report by Abigail Thernstrom, "The Racial Gap in Academic Achievement," black students in 12th grade dealt with scientific problems at the level of whites in the sixth grade; they wrote about as well as whites in the eighth grade. The average black high school senior had math skills on a par with a typical white student in the middle of ninth grade. The average 17-year-old black student could only read as well as the typical white child who had not yet reached age 13.

Black youngsters who take the SAT exam earn an average score that's 70 to 80 percent of the score of white students, and keep in mind, the achievement level of white students is nothing to write home about. Under misguided diversity pressures, colleges recruit many black students who are academically ill equipped. Very often, these students become quickly disillusioned, embarrassed and flunk out, or they're steered into curricula that have little or no academic content, or professors practice affirmative-action grading. In any case, the 12 years of poor academic preparation is not repaired in four or five years of college. This is seen by the huge performance gap between blacks and whites on exams for graduate school admittance such as the GRE, MCAT and LSAT.

Is poor academic performance among blacks something immutable or pre-ordained? There is no evidence for such a claim. Let's sample some evidence from earlier periods. In "Assumptions Versus History in Ethnic Education," in Teachers College Record (1981), Dr. Thomas Sowell reports on academic achievement in some of New York city's public schools. He compares test scores for sixth graders in Harlem schools with those in the predominantly white Lower East Side for April 1941 and December 1941.
In paragraph and word meaning, Harlem students, compared to Lower East Side students, scored equally or higher. In 1947 and 1951, Harlem third-graders in paragraph and word meaning, and arithmetic reasoning and computation scored about the same as -- and in some cases, slightly higher, and in others, slightly lower than -- their white Lower East Side counterparts.

Going back to an earlier era, Washington, D.C.'s Dunbar High School's black students scored higher in citywide tests than any of the city's white schools. In fact, from its founding in 1870 to 1955, most of Dunbar's graduates went off to college.

Let's return to the tale of the youngster at the Midwestern college. Recruiting this youngster to be a failure is cruel, psychologically damaging and an embarrassment for his family. But the campus hustlers might come to the aid of the student by convincing him that his academic failure is a result of white racism and Eurocentric values.


http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38904

[johnhp]

Walter Williams....when you think separate but equal was a better system.

[IM2]

The example of another sellout promoted by the right to justify their racist agenda.  What Williams writes has no merit and can only be used by racist idiots. Public schools don't give whites fradulent diplomas depicting 12th grade achievement? I graduated from a public high school and was prepared for college enough to get a degree. There never seems to be any examples by these right wingers of wthie failures. Only non whites.

Such is why I say that the conservative agenda is racist. It is also why I say that the current republican party is a party that panders to racists. And I did not go looking for this to make up such a claim, Mornac presented this crap and so then I use what conservatives present to justify every word I say.

Just like I always have.

[Pepsi]

The author makes comparisons soley between black and white students to make his racist points.   Instead, he should compare schools - say well funded suburban schools vs underfunded urban schools.    Or family, two parent households vs one parent households.   If you compare two parent suburban black students to single parent kids from underfunded schools, guess who looks smarter?

Lets look at this:

Is poor academic performance among blacks something immutable or pre-ordained? There is no evidence for such a claim. Let's sample some evidence from earlier periods. In "Assumptions Versus History in Ethnic Education," in Teachers College Record (1981), Dr. Thomas Sowell reports on academic achievement in some of New York city's public schools. He compares test scores for sixth graders in Harlem schools with those in the predominantly white Lower East Side for April 1941 and December 1941.
In paragraph and word meaning, Harlem students, compared to Lower East Side students, scored equally or higher. In 1947 and 1951, Harlem third-graders in paragraph and word meaning, and arithmetic reasoning and computation scored about the same as -- and in some cases, slightly higher, and in others, slightly lower than -- their white Lower East Side counterparts.

well, duh, the Lower East Side students from that period were nearly 100% recent immigrants.   

the author guy is disingenuous at best.

[Velleity]

Racial Stupidity and Malevolence

by Walter E. Williams
09/08/2010

The white liberal's agenda, . . .

. . . has yielded dramatic improvements, which would have been better but for you "conservatives" and your phony victim stance.

[nraforlife]

The author makes comparisons soley between black and white students to make his racist points.   Instead, he should compare schools - say well funded suburban schools vs underfunded urban schools.    Or family, two parent households vs one parent households.   If you compare two parent suburban black students to single parent kids from underfunded schools, guess who looks smarter?

Lets look at this:

well, duh, the Lower East Side students from that period were nearly 100% recent immigrants.   

the author guy is disingenuous at best.

unlimited school funding if provided still would not overcome the Reality than median black IQ is 85 vs a median White IQ of 100.

[johnhp]

. . . has yielded dramatic improvements, which would have been better but for you "conservatives" and your phony victim stance.

It is true that is it possible to measure the social improvement of African Americans over time.

[Velleity]

It is true that is it possible to measure the social improvement of African Americans over time.

Simply strap truelies/nraforlife to permanent stationary blood pressure monitor. The better off minorities are, the higher his blood pressure goes.

This would serve two salutary purposes.

Three, if his pressure goes so high that he explodes.

[Pepsi]

unlimited school funding if provided still would not overcome the Reality than median black IQ is 85 vs a median White IQ of 100.

I don't buy that blacks are inherently less intelligent than whites.   I have met too many extremely intelligent black people and conversely extremely dumb white people to believe that.   It's entirely the result of upbringing, circumstances, education, etc.

[IM2]

The white liberal's agenda, . . .

Created the opportunity for black idiots like Walter Williams to go to prestigious former all white colleges to get fancy degrees so that he could forget where he came from and become a sellout.

[dagon]

unlimited school funding if provided still would not overcome the Reality than median black IQ is 85 vs a median White IQ of 100.

hahahahaha

peace

[makesenseplease]

Created the opportunity for black idiots like Walter Williams to go to prestigious former all white colleges to get fancy degrees so that he could forget where he came from and become a sellout.

Are you sure this is the truth?

[IM2]

Are you sure this is the truth?

It's simply my opinion of Walter Williams and any other black person who thinks like him.

[makesenseplease]

It's simply my opinion of Walter Williams and any other black person who thinks like him.

That's an honest answer, thanks.