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[buravirgil]

[steki47]

[steki47]

A few months later and Mizzou is having problems.

http://nypost.com/2016/05/23/university-of-missouris-paying-a-price-for-its-lame-response-to-last-falls-racial-protests/

[johnslat]

Jeepers - those minorities are so darn touchy nowadays.


http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/a-history-of-racism-at-the-university-of-missouri/?_r=0

Regards,
John

[steki47]

[johnslat]

Or is it possible - do you imagine - that they realized that the situation demanded their actions despite the possible consequences.?

No, you wouldn't ever imagine that.

Regards,
John

[steki47]

[johnslat]

Now that's something I hadn't known - that Blacks have a mean I.Q. of 85. So, I did a little research:

" By the same token, the disparity between black and white scores, Dr. Flynn and others argue, is because of similar disadvantages. The current worldwide disparity between privileged and deprived groups in I.Q. and school performance, they argue, is mainly a product of environmental influences - notably prejudice, low expectations, inferior schools and bad teaching.

When those factors are eliminated, new data show, the test scores of underprivileged minorities approximate those of whites. Research by George Chambers, professor of education at the University of Iowa, compared scores of Hispanic and white high school students on the American College Test, or A.C.T. The national average A.C.T. scores for Mexican-Americans is 15.2, for whites 19.6.

But when Dr. Chambers compared Hispanic and white students who were carefully matched in pairs for family income, courses taken and 11 other background factors, the differences between the groups' scores largely vanished. Among the most advantaged pairs) for instance, those with family incomes over $36,000 and who had taken advanced math and science courses) the Hispanic students scored an average 21.8, and the whites 23.4.

Perhaps the most telling bit of evidence comes from the I.Q. scores of castelike minorities who emigrate. Once they arrive in a country where they are free of any particular social discrimination, their children's I.Q. scores and school performance tend to match those of other children in the new country.

For instance, research by George DeVos, an anthropologist at the University of California at Berkeley, shows that in Japan the I.Q. gap between Burakumi and other Japanese is about as large as that between blacks and whites in America. But when the Burakumi come to this country, where they are treated as are any other Japanese, their children do as well on I.Q. tests and in school as do other Japanese.

DR. FLYNN sees his data as a direct challenge to the theories of Arthur Jensen, an educational psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley, who has calculated that 80 percent of I.Q. is traceable to genetic differences, while only 20 percent is traceable to environment. The great malleability of I.Q. scores in a single generation, however, points to environment, rather than genes, as having a much larger influence.

Dr. Neisser of Emory agrees. In his view, the low I.Q. scores and poor academic achievement of black children ''has little to do with their race or their genes: it is a consequence of the structure of society as a whole.''

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/education/an-emerging-theory-on-blacks-iq-scores.html?pagewanted=all

If Blacks (alas, we're back to those all-inclusive stereotypes again) won the right to never be offended or inconvenienced by anything and to never have to take responsibility for their actions, this seems strange:

"Poll: Blacks, whites agree police treat blacks differently"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/09/poll-blacks-whites-agree-police-treat-blacks-differently/71918706/
"Another story that emphasizes this difference between black African performance in the UK compared to African American performance in the US was a report on London’s spectacular improvements in GCSE school achievement. The capital city has in recent years been doing so well compared to other areas of the country that it attracted some hot debates from different scholars about the causes. The main reason that has been offered and debated so far came from a highly reputable scholar who argued that these achievements of London are not due to any government policy but simply a result of three high achieving groups moving to London in recent years: Chinese, Indians, and Black Africans. The fact that such a statement can even be made proves how different the black Africans in the UK are from black Americans. How conceivable is it that researchers in America would propose something like, “the reason New York City is now leading in school performance nationwide is because it has a lot of Chinese, Indians and black Americans who have recently moved into the city in high numbers”? Mentioning blacks as part of the explanation for the academic success of any American city would sound like a page from an environmentalist science fiction novel, and yet it is accepted as a valid argument for the academic success of the biggest city in the UK!"

http://www.unz.com/article/the-iq-gap-is-no-longer-a-black-and-white-issue/

I don't have to "imagine" Blacks' being quite capable of "understanding of the larger world around them without relying on the modern voodoo of "institutional racism" and "white privilege" since over the decades I've known many who understood the world around them quite well.

Perhaps you should widen your circle of friends, get out more often, expand your horizons.

Regards,
John

[steki47]

Environment it is then. So if we buy iPads for the ghetto kids, they will all become physicists? Good luck with that.

[johnslat]

Not all, but probably some more:

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/physics/physics-peeps.html

But hey, it ain't brain surgery.

http://madamenoire.com/108328/the-top-21-our-list-of-the-outstanding-black-doctors/

Regards,
John

[steki47]

[johnslat]

Well, that certainly shows that being a full-blown whacko does not prevent one from also being a world-class brain surgeon .

Though, admittedly, were I in need of his services, I believe I just might opt for another cutter.

Regards,
John

[MI6agent]

[johnslat]

" . . . don't be like white liberals who want to erase black people and their unique contributions to American life."

Goodness - you really don't have a clue, do you?

Regards,
John

[sheikh radlinrol]