Is Some Racism More or Less Racism Than Other Racism?

[_beastie]

I really don't know. The races in the U.S. weren't as mixed back in the 1960s and 1970s as they are now in 2012. I can see why colleges and universities would use affirmative action back in the 1960s and 1970s, but I definitely cannot see why they need to use it now in 2012, since the races are more mixed, and we now have a President who is of African descent.

That's like saying since Oprah Winfrey is so rich and successful, women no longer have problems with workplace discrimination.

However, I do agree that eventually there should come a time when this practice is no longer necessary. I don't think that time has yet come. I think the public education system has to be equitable before that time comes.

Education
Despite dramatic changes, large gaps remain when minority education attainment is compared to that of Caucasian Americans (American Council on Education, 2006).

African Americans and Latinos are more likely to attend high-poverty schools than Asian Americans and Caucasians (National Center for Education Statistics, 2007).In 2005, the high school dropout rate of Latinos was highest, followed by those of African Americans and American Indians/Alaska Natives (National Center for Education Statistics, 2007).In addition to socioeconomic realities that may deprive students of valuable resources, high-achieving African American students may be exposed to less rigorous curriculums, attend schools with fewer resources, and have teachers who expect less of them academically than they expect of similarly situated Caucasian students (Azzam, 2008).

http://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/pub ... t-erm.aspx

[_Droopy]

quote="Droopy"
(and what is an "African American?)?

What is "the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints?" What happened to plain old "Mormon"? Oh, let me guess, only certain people get to decide what they'd rather be called. Others are being silly and demanding.

I understand it to be far too much to expect an answer from you to a very simple clarifying question (I've never met an "African American" among all the black people I have known as friends and co-workers, although I have met and worked with a number of Caribbean Americans). But I do suspect that you understand perfectly well where you'd have to go to support the continued usage of the term (as Lord Acton once said, "Few discoveries are more irritating than those which expose the pedigree of ideas"), and don't want to go there.

You're still an asshole, by the way.

[_Droopy]

That's like saying since Oprah Winfrey is so rich and successful, women no longer have problems with workplace discrimination.

Feminist ideological fiction. This has been utterly discredited for a very long time, much of which work has been done by the distinguished Dr. Thomas Sowell, who has written extensively about the subject over some years. Its a part of the internal mythology of radical feminism, but won't stand up to empirical scrutiny.

However, I do agree that eventually there should come a time when this practice is no longer necessary. I don't think that time has yet come. I think the public education system has to be equitable before that time comes.

The public education system isn't an education system. Its an indoctrination system who's entire purpose is to reproduce leftists such as yourself in perpetuity, with as little ability to think for themselves as possible.

African Americans and Latinos are more likely to attend high-poverty schools than Asian Americans and Caucasians (National Center for Education Statistics, 2007).In 2005, the high school dropout rate of Latinos was highest, followed by those of African Americans and American Indians/Alaska Natives (National Center for Education Statistics, 2007)

These are clearly problems of culture. What would you suggest doing to address them?

In addition to socioeconomic realities that may deprive students of valuable resources, high-achieving African American students may be exposed to less rigorous curriculums, attend schools with fewer resources, and have teachers who expect less of them academically than they expect of similarly situated Caucasian students (Azzam, 2008).

Yup, all the classic, standardized leftist pap the primary purpose of which s to mask the fact that it is the Left which has run and dominated American public education for generations and who have turned that system into a permanent intellectual ghetto that is the laughing stock of the western industrialized world and has become a clear and present danger to the continuance of a free, self-governing social order.

How about a little shot of transformational OBE, Beastie?