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Apparently, they don’t think that black people are smart enough to get into college on merit alone, which is truly tragic.
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Very few black people are smart enough to get into college on merit alone. Tragically. Worse still, it is not really the kids fault - it is the fault of their parents and EVERY Black 'leader' who has failed to recognize that a good education is the first step in achieving the 'economic equity' the scream they want.

Asians are bent on seeing their children get all the education they can handle - possibly even at a younger age than most kids could handle. Many Asian parents are seeing that their children become 'educational overachievers'.

Most white parents read to their little ones. Meaning they go to first grade with a much improved vocabulary and they know what books are all about. Ready for first grade when they get there.

Black kids? Far too many blacks are born in father-less households. Many black mothers take the attitude that 'the school is supposed to teach our children everything they need to know'. So most of them get to first grade with a limited vocabulary and no idea what a book is all about. Too many black kids, by the time they reach high school they are ready to cop an attitude of their own - 'getting educated is acting white'.

Why do I believe the above?

Standardized test scores for one. Back when I was reading the newspaper religiously, every few years or so the local paper would print the scores - broken down by race. The blacks were always ten to twenty percent behind the whites. Who were themselves two to five percent behind the asians.

I also read in an article not that long ago (may have been referring to the Supreme Court case) where blacks being admitted to 'prestigious universities' had SAT scores a fair ways below what the asians and whites being denied admissions had.

Here is an article obviously written by liveral retards . . . But it gives facts to back up the above.

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SAT math scores mirror and maintain racial inequity

http://www.brookings.edu/articles/sat-math-scores-mirror-and-maintain-racial-inequity/

December 1, 2020

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We investigate SAT scores by race using the College Board’s publicly available data for over 2.1 million 2020 high school graduates, with a particular focus on the math section. (This analysis builds on our earlier work on this issue from 2017, “Race gaps in SAT scores highlight inequality and hinder upward mobility.”)

The class of 2020 averaged a score of 523 of 800 on the math section of the SAT, slightly below the College Board’s college-readiness benchmark score of 530. (The College Board predicts that the average SAT test taker will earn less than a C in their first-year math course.) The average scores for Black (454) and Latino or Hispanic students (47Cool are significantly lower than those of white (547) and Asian students (632).
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Now I do not believe that blacks (or hispanics) can not learn enough to score high enough and go to college.

But I also do not believe our 'prestigious universities' should be aggressively recruiting academically challenged imbeciles KNOWING that they do not have the necessary skill sets to succeed in college.

And I also believe our 'federal student loan program' is a BIG part of the problem. Recruit the idiots, lard them up with 'student loans'. Hand out diplomas like candy and grant 'degrees' not worth the paper they were printed on. Then when 'they' get out into the real world 'corporate' has to find out (the hard way) that the clown they just hired can not do the job.

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Yes, America Is Ready to Turn the Page on Affirmative Action
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June 29, 2023

Yes, America Is Ready to Turn the Page on Affirmative Action

by Matt Margolis
PJmedia.com



In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger that an admissions process that gives preference to “underrepresented minority groups” does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Affirmative action began under President Lyndon B. Johnson. If you want to argue that such a policy was necessary at that point in our history, you could probably make a reasonable case. But such a policy could never be permanent. At some point, America had to progress to the point where such a policy was no longer necessary. In fact, in her majority opinion, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said just that. Despite the court’s condoning of racial preferences, O’Connor wrote, “The Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.”

On Thursday, the Supreme Court finally ruled that race-based admissions do, in fact, violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in its rulings in Students for Fair Admissions vs. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions vs. the University of North Carolina. Justice O’Connor was only off by six years.

Radical leftists are, of course, freaking out. “Every child deserves a chance to chase their American Dream,” tweeted Nancy Pelosi. “Yet sadly, today’s Supreme Court ruling narrows access to higher education & the crucial ladder of opportunity that it provides. Its impact will be felt imminently, diminishing hard-fought progress for racial justice.”

“The Supreme Court ruling has put a giant roadblock in our country’s march for racial justice,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement. “The consequences of this decision will be felt immediately and across the country, as students of color will face an admission cycle next year with fewer opportunities to attend the same colleges and universities than their parents and older siblings.”

Apparently, they don’t think that black people are smart enough to get into college on merit alone, which is truly tragic. If there’s anything we can infer from their statements and the statements of many others on the left, is that, unlike Justice O’Connor, they didn’t see race-based policy admissions to be a temporary fix. For them, there will always be racial injustice justifying tipping the scales in favor of minorities at the expense of white Americans.

Let’s not forget that, five years after Grutter v. Bollinger, America elected the first black president of the United States. He may have been an awful president, but if there was any milestone that should have put the issue of affirmative action to rest, that was it. Yet it still took another 15 years before the Supreme Court finally did the right thing. From where I sit, this day was long overdue.

Make no mistake about it: the doom and gloom that the radical left is predicting isn’t going to happen. In fact, most Americans believe the country is ready to turn the page on affirmative action. According to a 2022 Pew Research poll, 73% of Americans are opposed to colleges and universities considering race or ethnicity in student admissions decisions. Only 19% believe it should be a minor factor, and merely 7% consider it a major factor. Even minorities are opposed to affirmative action. The same poll revealed that 62% of black Americans, 65% of Hispanic Americans, and 58% of Asian Americans do not believe race or ethnicity should play a role in admissions.

America is ready for colorblind admissions. Just because the Democrats aren’t doesn’t mean that we should listen to them.

http://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/06/29/yes-america-is-ready-to-turn-the-page-on-affirmative-action-n1707269


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