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Article #4174Re: Dreaming the impossible dream, more minorities in gifted classes
From: wismel
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:18
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:18
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On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:33:10 -0800, "Baxter" <lbax02.spamguard@baxcode.com> wrote: >- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Free Software - Baxter Codeworks www.baxcode.com >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >"Yer Pal Al" <caddyshack.al@gmail.com> wrote in message >news:5ceafd4a-5449-40ca-bdfe-0b770dc54d0e@w19g2000pre.googlegroups.com... >On Nov 29, 9:49 am, "Baxter" <lbax02.spamgu...@baxcode.com> wrote: > >>> Those IQ tests are designed by whites for European/Americans and don't >>> take >>> into account for differences in types of IQ. >> >>How do we get more black kids into engineering? There are about 300 >>engineers where I work and only one of them is black. 1% of my >>graduating class was black (~3% were Mexican women) and almost all >>flunked out. > >It's often a matter of money - both in aquiring an education and then >afterwards. Does no use to sacrifice to get a degree and then find that, >because of the color of your skin, you can't get a job in the field -- and >if you do, the whites around you mutter about "Affirmative Action". >Rightwads claim that there is no racial bias anymore, but if that were true >there would have been far more than 1% in your class. > >>The commonality between all blacks that I know that are successful in >>engineering and science is that they act like Republicans and reject >>black identity culture. > >In essence, to succeed in the White Man's World, you have to become a White >Man. The Indians noticed that too - and some famous Indians basically had >dual personas: one for living on the reservation, and another when out in >the White Man's World. Be assured that in the real world talent, which means making money for the organization, reins supreme. ted >
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