I'm always amazed when I see people in other countries reading what I write. I even got linked by this guy in Australia. And yes it will take a long time to load because he is on Blogspot!
Those of you who live in Atlanta and read the Urinal and Constipation know that Cynthia Tucker is the editorial page editor of said paper. She is very liberal. Every now and then (Even a blind pig can occasionally find an acorn and a broken clock is right twice a day) as in her campaign to get Cynthia McKinney and her bigoted father defeated in the last election, she does stumble on to the truth and make sense. Sunday was one of those days. As I read her column in Sunday's paper, I kept shaking my head in wonder and thinking, "Cynthia, you are gonna get in a heap of trouble for writing this". Ya see, she is blaming the poor showing of black men in school on, (are you ready?) black parents! How dare she do sumpin' like that! As everyone knows, all black failures are due to racism.
As I'm sure you know by now, I'm a racist because I believe black people are every bit as intelligent as white people, and I think blacks have been betrayed by their 'leaders' who want them held to lower academic standards and by doing so, actually reinforce the false belief that blacks are dumber than whites. Bullshit!
Why is this country the richest and most powerful country in the world? It can't be our abundance of natural resources. Yeah, we have oil, but we still have to import more than half of what we use. It's our people resources that make the difference. In this country, everyone works. We don't keep our women veiled and at home. Any country that does not use all of its human resources is doomed to failure. Maybe if Germany had used Jewish scientists rather than killing them, they might have developed nukes before we did. That's why I want black students to achieve. I feel the same about Latinos and all other ethnic groups.
How do we develop human resources? Three words: Education. Education. Education. Our public education system, which used to be the envy of the rest of the world is going down the tubes. Nowhere is this more evident than in the inner city.
What does Cynthia have to say?
Young black men are in trouble. They are dropping out of high school, fathering children out of wedlock, falling into lives of drug abuse and crime. Getting them back on track will require not only intense outreach from university counselors and high school teachers but also determined efforts by (emphasis mine - GOC) black parents, black churches and community organizations.
That means having parents read to their children starting at an early age. It means having parents be proactive with how their children are doing in school. It means having black churches speak out on problems in the black community and not blame white folks for all the problems. And it means having the NAACP concentrate on real problems rather than symbolic bullshit like the fucking Confederate flag. We can expunge all memory of the Confederacy and it will still not keep one child in school.
Many black teenage boys start out as bright and disciplined pupils in elementary school, but they begin to drift toward mediocrity -- if not delinquency -- in middle school. Nationally, only 34 percent of black male high school graduates go on to college. (The U.S. military recruits many college-eligible black men.)
What happens?
Since black boys often start out with more disadvantages, including the lingering effects of racism, it is no wonder that their problems are more pronounced. It may take a generation to reverse the entrenched effects of culture and environment, whether it's white teachers who see every black boy as a thug-in-training or black parents who fail to push academic achievement. So it's time to get started.
You may be surprised that I agree with Cynthia that there is lingering racism in the United States. But the 'entrenched effects of culture and environment' that Cynthia is talking about must be the culture that doing well in school is 'acting white'. Once again, the NAACP and other black organizations, including black churches, should be pounding home how self-defeating this concept is. How come we don't hear Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Kweisi Mfume, Cynthia McKinney, Maxine Waters and all the other RWPP's (Race Warlord Poverty Pimps) preaching this? I guess because it's easier to blame everything on racism. And if the black community does succeed, they won't need Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Kweisi Mfume, Cynthia McKinney, Maxine Waters and all the other RWPP's.
But parents, not teachers, play the most important role in children's education. Every black parent ought to insist on academic excellence; they must combat the perverse view among many black kids that serious scholarship is "a white thing." That notion is prevalent even among middle-class black students, according to University of California professor John Ogbu, author of "Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A study of Academic Disengagement."
Hmmmm. Cynthia is starting to sound just like me. Maybe she's a racist, too. Info about the John Ogbu study she is referring to can be found here. He was asked to try to determine why blacks at an upscale school were not doing as well as whites.
Here is one of his conclusions that got him in trouble:
"The black parents feel it is their role to move to Shaker Heights, pay the higher taxes so their kids could graduate from Shaker, and that's where their role stops," Ogbu says during an interview at his home in the Oakland hills. "They believe the school system should take care of the rest. They didn't supervise their children that much. They didn't make sure their children did their homework. That's not how other ethnic groups think."
Uh. Oh. For this he was labeled an "academic Clarence Thomas." So Cynthia better watch out.
The last paragraph of Cynthia Tucker's column:
As long as they remain dismissive of serious academic achievement, black students will consign themselves to mediocrity, at best, or failure, at worst. And no amount of affirmative action will change that.
And the NAACP thinks the Confederate flag is the biggest problem confronting the black community today.
How sad.