Look, I know this is going to sound really racist. This is regarding black people and education.
I have noticed the seething vitriol and hatred at the idea of academic achievement. Actually, not just academic achievement.
But also a horrible attitude towards life in general. If I see a crowd of black people standing in a store, I do my absolute best to expend a great amount of effort to avoid them. This is a typical attitude that the vast majority of black people display.
perpetuates a culture of failures and losers
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Now to address the race and IQ drivel that is being spewed in the media. The field of "sociobiology" makes the absurd allegation that white people have higher average IQs than minority races have.
I see with my own eyes that this nonsense is plainly false. My family is prominently involved with the local Bangladeshi communities. These families reside within the states of South Carolina as well as North Carolina. [[list jobs, accomplishments, women being scientists, all are successful professionals, many scholars and college professors. here4 list women chemists?docs?engineers??dunno...]]] (It appears that the so-called field of sociobiology-based IQ studies has gotten it wrong on a number of accounts.)
When I was five years old, I tested an IQ of 147. My family comes from a third-world country. And yet we managed to prosper and flourish here in the United States. This includes all my extended family as well. If I as a member of a minority race cannot use the excuse of "minorities having lower average IQs," then black people cannot, either. More to the point, I flatly refuse to use this excuse. Is this not insulting? No, worse than that; is this not derogatory and vulgar?
And do you black people not find that to be incredibly insulting? That the expectations for you are so phenomenally low, because popular media does not believe you have the ability <at all.> No doubt, IQ and natural intelligence do exist. But they are not divided along racial-ethnicity lines.
There are many, many educated, successful black people out there. C. Delores Tucker. The woman who was my seventh grade *advanced math* teacher. The woman who was my high school guidance counselor. Bill Cosby. For goodness sake, the Reading Rainbow guy is black! Levar Burton is an awesome person who inspired millions of kids to pick up a book and read. I had already been reading by the time I was introduced to Levar Burton. But he has inspired many other kids to delve into the magical, wondrous world of the imagination, of knowledge, of far-off places. Reading is a wonderful portal to other worlds, to other time dimensions, to other cultures, everything PBS says it is. The point is there are numerous more accomplished black people. If they can all do it, then so can most other black people.
This bad attitude is not just a phenomenon that occurs only in the limited southeastern corner where I reside. They still harbor resentment, indignation, and hatred. They are still reeling from the social effects as well as personal psychological effects of racism.
I have noticed the seething vitriol and hatred at the idea of academic achievement. Actually, not just academic achievement.
But also a horrible attitude towards life in general. If I see a crowd of black people standing in a store, I do my absolute best to expend a great amount of effort to avoid them. This is a typical attitude that the vast majority of black people display.
perpetuates a culture of failures and losers
**[[[insert excerpt written on half-piece-paper.]]]
Now to address the race and IQ drivel that is being spewed in the media. The field of "sociobiology" makes the absurd allegation that white people have higher average IQs than minority races have.
I see with my own eyes that this nonsense is plainly false. My family is prominently involved with the local Bangladeshi communities. These families reside within the states of South Carolina as well as North Carolina. [[list jobs, accomplishments, women being scientists, all are successful professionals, many scholars and college professors. here4 list women chemists?docs?engineers??dunno...]]] (It appears that the so-called field of sociobiology-based IQ studies has gotten it wrong on a number of accounts.)
When I was five years old, I tested an IQ of 147. My family comes from a third-world country. And yet we managed to prosper and flourish here in the United States. This includes all my extended family as well. If I as a member of a minority race cannot use the excuse of "minorities having lower average IQs," then black people cannot, either. More to the point, I flatly refuse to use this excuse. Is this not insulting? No, worse than that; is this not derogatory and vulgar?
And do you black people not find that to be incredibly insulting? That the expectations for you are so phenomenally low, because popular media does not believe you have the ability <at all.> No doubt, IQ and natural intelligence do exist. But they are not divided along racial-ethnicity lines.
There are many, many educated, successful black people out there. C. Delores Tucker. The woman who was my seventh grade *advanced math* teacher. The woman who was my high school guidance counselor. Bill Cosby. For goodness sake, the Reading Rainbow guy is black! Levar Burton is an awesome person who inspired millions of kids to pick up a book and read. I had already been reading by the time I was introduced to Levar Burton. But he has inspired many other kids to delve into the magical, wondrous world of the imagination, of knowledge, of far-off places. Reading is a wonderful portal to other worlds, to other time dimensions, to other cultures, everything PBS says it is. The point is there are numerous more accomplished black people. If they can all do it, then so can most other black people.
This bad attitude is not just a phenomenon that occurs only in the limited southeastern corner where I reside. They still harbor resentment, indignation, and hatred. They are still reeling from the social effects as well as personal psychological effects of racism.
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