December 26, 2024
You Can't Make an Omelet...
Timothy Birdnow
We've always known this is true but have not been allowed to say it.
San Fran’s 10-year experiment to prove blacks are ‘brilliant’ at math fails miserably…
Why black kids don't do as well on I.Q. tests or in math or verbal skills is another question, but the deficit is clearly there and it is a pipe-dream to say otherwise.
I believe it is purely cultural. Black folks are disadvanted since they have such a higher rate of single-parent families, but even when there are two parents they tend to have problems because they raise children very differently than do whites or Asians. One of the core principles held by black parents is "respect" which means they punish kids for independent actions when they are young. As a child you need to explore the world you live in and this is discouraged in black families as "acting up". Later in life the kids do this, but it's done in a sullen spirit of rebellion that leads to crime and disrupts their further academic growth.
Language skills tend to develop less as there is not a high priority placed on proper English is the black community. As a result young black kids struggle with their language development because they are told to "express themselves in their own words" but they don't HAVE their own words, or proper ones anyway. The end result is they struggle to think in a disciplined manner because we think with language and it must be taught to children.
Of course this is no doubt a purposeful policy by the Left, who seek to make people (all of us) incapable of thinking by controlling language. George Orwell spoke of this in his dystopian novel 1984 when he postulated Newspeak, which made it impossible for people to even think of anything not put there by the authorities.
The fact is black culture holds black people back, and as long as there is an unique, separate black culture (and most black folks seem to have little interest in "acting white") they will continue to fall behind. After all, the culture was born in a tribal civilization in Africa and slavery and Jim Crow did nothing to elevate it after they came to America. Their culture was rather a rational response to conditions. But now it's the thing enslaving them. You can take the slave out of the plantation but you must also take the plantation out of the slave.
America didn't do that and we are paying the price for it now.
Bear in mind I am in no way saying blacks are in any way inferior to whites or Asian or Hispanics; I am saying their culture is in a case of social retardation and is why they struggle in these areas. Changing the rules to accomodate this isn't the answer. Any fool should be able to see that as school busing was touted as the way to fix the problems in the black community and all it did was bring the problems of the black community to the general public. It did not elevate the blacks - it downgraded the whites. Our schools are terrible now when they were pretty good until we started integrating them.
That is a failure of a core belief. Christianity always said Man is inherently evil, that he will seek the lowest level if left to his own devices. We choose bad things when push comes to shove. But the Liberal movement was predicated on a denial of this and said Man is inherently good and only needs a reordering of the social environment to flourish. We've tried it now for a century and it has been found wanting.
That is not to say people are ALWAYS bad or evil, and that is the complaint I hear, especially from atheists, who reject Christian beliefs. Christianity doesn't say that either. People often have good INTENTIONS but are easily corrupted, seduced into bad behavior. The flesh is forever nagging at us "do this and you will happy". Of course, education is itself a rebellion against the sins of the flesh, as it is an arduous, sometimes painful, usually unpleasant exercise, compltely at odds with our natural inclinations. But it's how civilization is built. Barbarism is the fruits of maleducation.
Which is where we are now in our society, and the black community has had to bear the brunt of this failure. I blame white liberals who created the conditions and did so in no small part because they wanted to use the black community as a battering ram to break down the doors of our culture.
So instead of making studies on different tracks, and accepting that some kids do better than others at certain things, the liberals hold back the successful to allow those who were disadvantaged to catch up. That is the core of socialism, and it always leads to failure on almost every level. It is no kindness to pretend we are all equal.
The article states:
I remember when they started this whole "self esteem" campaign in schools. I knew then it was a terrible idea because it was a FALSE self-esteem being given to children just for existing. They sttarted giving out participation trophies and making grades pass/fail and had grade inflation so everyone got an A. So they inflated the egos of mediocrities who now often reside in university faculties despite being total morons.
And we've seen the arrogance and conceit of young people grow ever more insufferable over the years as they are told they are not so much students who require the wisdom of their elders but that they are gods unto themselves and that their wisdom is based on their "purity of minds" aka not being cluttered "Imagine the future, unburdened by the past"? as the great mediocrity Kamala Harris put it. The young are smart and cool and whatever they think is to be accepted - what older folks think is corrupt and burdened by a sclerotic mind.
The Left always understood this which is why they pushed all this - and severed the normal link between parents and youngsters. In fact the sixties saw the rise of the youth culture, a bunch of spoiled brats who were flattered by leftists into believing their "youth and vitality" would fix the world. These were flatteries, lies told to trick the gullible youths (who may have been smart but lacked wisdom, something that comes with age). Sadly, these same youths are now the ones running things. They own academia. They own lower education. They run the government by and large. They run the big corporations. They run the news media and publishing houses and movies and television.
In the movie The Devil's Advocate Satan aka John Milton (Al Pacino) says vanity is his favorite sin. America was lost when American kids embraced their own vanity.
At any rate, if we do not define the problem our efforts to fix it will only continue to make things worse. The problem is black kids are not as good at math and science and language than are white or Asian kids on average and that stems from their culture and the way the dominant society promotes the balkanized America. We have essentially created our own barbarian culture to destroy us, just as Rome faced an influx of people who were not Romans. This was a conscious thing and part of the plan to ultimately create a new world order and international socialism.
In every war there must be casualties. The Progressive Left has been happy to allow the black community to take the heavy losses over the years. You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
We've always known this is true but have not been allowed to say it.
San Fran’s 10-year experiment to prove blacks are ‘brilliant’ at math fails miserably…
Why black kids don't do as well on I.Q. tests or in math or verbal skills is another question, but the deficit is clearly there and it is a pipe-dream to say otherwise.
I believe it is purely cultural. Black folks are disadvanted since they have such a higher rate of single-parent families, but even when there are two parents they tend to have problems because they raise children very differently than do whites or Asians. One of the core principles held by black parents is "respect" which means they punish kids for independent actions when they are young. As a child you need to explore the world you live in and this is discouraged in black families as "acting up". Later in life the kids do this, but it's done in a sullen spirit of rebellion that leads to crime and disrupts their further academic growth.
Language skills tend to develop less as there is not a high priority placed on proper English is the black community. As a result young black kids struggle with their language development because they are told to "express themselves in their own words" but they don't HAVE their own words, or proper ones anyway. The end result is they struggle to think in a disciplined manner because we think with language and it must be taught to children.
Of course this is no doubt a purposeful policy by the Left, who seek to make people (all of us) incapable of thinking by controlling language. George Orwell spoke of this in his dystopian novel 1984 when he postulated Newspeak, which made it impossible for people to even think of anything not put there by the authorities.
The fact is black culture holds black people back, and as long as there is an unique, separate black culture (and most black folks seem to have little interest in "acting white") they will continue to fall behind. After all, the culture was born in a tribal civilization in Africa and slavery and Jim Crow did nothing to elevate it after they came to America. Their culture was rather a rational response to conditions. But now it's the thing enslaving them. You can take the slave out of the plantation but you must also take the plantation out of the slave.
America didn't do that and we are paying the price for it now.
Bear in mind I am in no way saying blacks are in any way inferior to whites or Asian or Hispanics; I am saying their culture is in a case of social retardation and is why they struggle in these areas. Changing the rules to accomodate this isn't the answer. Any fool should be able to see that as school busing was touted as the way to fix the problems in the black community and all it did was bring the problems of the black community to the general public. It did not elevate the blacks - it downgraded the whites. Our schools are terrible now when they were pretty good until we started integrating them.
That is a failure of a core belief. Christianity always said Man is inherently evil, that he will seek the lowest level if left to his own devices. We choose bad things when push comes to shove. But the Liberal movement was predicated on a denial of this and said Man is inherently good and only needs a reordering of the social environment to flourish. We've tried it now for a century and it has been found wanting.
That is not to say people are ALWAYS bad or evil, and that is the complaint I hear, especially from atheists, who reject Christian beliefs. Christianity doesn't say that either. People often have good INTENTIONS but are easily corrupted, seduced into bad behavior. The flesh is forever nagging at us "do this and you will happy". Of course, education is itself a rebellion against the sins of the flesh, as it is an arduous, sometimes painful, usually unpleasant exercise, compltely at odds with our natural inclinations. But it's how civilization is built. Barbarism is the fruits of maleducation.
Which is where we are now in our society, and the black community has had to bear the brunt of this failure. I blame white liberals who created the conditions and did so in no small part because they wanted to use the black community as a battering ram to break down the doors of our culture.
So instead of making studies on different tracks, and accepting that some kids do better than others at certain things, the liberals hold back the successful to allow those who were disadvantaged to catch up. That is the core of socialism, and it always leads to failure on almost every level. It is no kindness to pretend we are all equal.
The article states:
"Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math.
In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths. The district hoped that scrapping honors math classes and eighth grade algebra courses would reduce disparities in math learning.
For advocates, it struck at the very core of why only some students perform well in math.
When districts slot students into math classes based on ability they send conspicuous messages to those on the lower track that they are not smart enough, says Ho Nguyen, who was a K-12 math and computer science program administrator in San Francisco during the district’s detracking attempt. It’s not that it’s always intentional, he’s quick to add. But these hierarchies affect students’ belief systems and also tend to lower teachers’ expectations of students labeled worse at math, Nguyen says. Those attempting to reform this practice contend that all students are mathematically brilliant, he says."
In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths. The district hoped that scrapping honors math classes and eighth grade algebra courses would reduce disparities in math learning.
For advocates, it struck at the very core of why only some students perform well in math.
When districts slot students into math classes based on ability they send conspicuous messages to those on the lower track that they are not smart enough, says Ho Nguyen, who was a K-12 math and computer science program administrator in San Francisco during the district’s detracking attempt. It’s not that it’s always intentional, he’s quick to add. But these hierarchies affect students’ belief systems and also tend to lower teachers’ expectations of students labeled worse at math, Nguyen says. Those attempting to reform this practice contend that all students are mathematically brilliant, he says."
I remember when they started this whole "self esteem" campaign in schools. I knew then it was a terrible idea because it was a FALSE self-esteem being given to children just for existing. They sttarted giving out participation trophies and making grades pass/fail and had grade inflation so everyone got an A. So they inflated the egos of mediocrities who now often reside in university faculties despite being total morons.
And we've seen the arrogance and conceit of young people grow ever more insufferable over the years as they are told they are not so much students who require the wisdom of their elders but that they are gods unto themselves and that their wisdom is based on their "purity of minds" aka not being cluttered "Imagine the future, unburdened by the past"? as the great mediocrity Kamala Harris put it. The young are smart and cool and whatever they think is to be accepted - what older folks think is corrupt and burdened by a sclerotic mind.
The Left always understood this which is why they pushed all this - and severed the normal link between parents and youngsters. In fact the sixties saw the rise of the youth culture, a bunch of spoiled brats who were flattered by leftists into believing their "youth and vitality" would fix the world. These were flatteries, lies told to trick the gullible youths (who may have been smart but lacked wisdom, something that comes with age). Sadly, these same youths are now the ones running things. They own academia. They own lower education. They run the government by and large. They run the big corporations. They run the news media and publishing houses and movies and television.
In the movie The Devil's Advocate Satan aka John Milton (Al Pacino) says vanity is his favorite sin. America was lost when American kids embraced their own vanity.
At any rate, if we do not define the problem our efforts to fix it will only continue to make things worse. The problem is black kids are not as good at math and science and language than are white or Asian kids on average and that stems from their culture and the way the dominant society promotes the balkanized America. We have essentially created our own barbarian culture to destroy us, just as Rome faced an influx of people who were not Romans. This was a conscious thing and part of the plan to ultimately create a new world order and international socialism.
In every war there must be casualties. The Progressive Left has been happy to allow the black community to take the heavy losses over the years. You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
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