Very much a minor side note, but the observation that "only five percent of college presidents are Black women" was an odd way to highlight inequity, since that's just about their percentage in the population at large.
Very much a minor side note, but the observation that "only five percent of college presidents are Black women" was an odd way to highlight inequity, since that's just about their percentage in the population at large.
Why do people capitalize тАЬblackтАЭ and тАЬwhiteтАЭ? They are not words derived from proper nouns. African or European would be capitalized, not color words.
I'm well aware of how capitalization works, thanks. I just do what the powers that be decree, because it's not a fight I feel like having every day. So when we were told by the media and university elite to change from African American to Black, I changed from African American to Black. Don't worry, we'll be using a new term soon.
I really resisted that change because I saw it for what it has turned out to be: an attempt to make "race" a binary, even though nobody I know* is actually black or white, but exhibit a vast array of skin tones from pink to nearly-black and everything in between. I notice this Waukesha murderer is just barely darker skinned than I am, and I'm "white".
*-possible exceptions: Edgar Winter is pretty white, but albino is not a race. And Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, great point guard in the 60s and 70s, was pretty black as the whatever-you-want-to-use-for-really-black ("ace of spades", "night", "a coal miners' adjective", etc...)
Around 7% should be the magic number. Every percent of disparity is evidence of graver and graver systemic racism by colleges. No other explanations are possible for the Awoken; if a person considers any other explanation it means they are a White Supremacist.
Well...that depends on if you think Kendi is a better thinker than Thomas Sowell. Which you certainly can, even though one uses facts and the other mere assertions.
Read Thomas Sowell. Remember, Kendi's actions speak loud. I'm no fan of Amy Coney Barrett, but Kendi's tweet asserting that her Haitian adopted children showed her up as a colonizer was a low blow. You don't attack people's families when you don't like their politics. Character is revealed in behavior.
Sowell's interests are legion and I started with his 1980 book Knowledge & Decisions. He has written about world cultures, migration and other subjects, all enlightening.
I have read a lot of Sowell. I think his books Wealth, Poverty, and Politics and Basic Economics should be required reading in every high school in the United States. Reading those two books alone is probably worth more than getting a bachelors in most college subjects. At least it would be worth more to America.
Totally on board with that. Required reading. Also, just imo, Kendi doesn't rise of the level of demagogue. Kendi is just a grifter playing the shallow integrity circuit.
I think, in the end, it will come down to the undecideds. I think there's a raft of people who don't know who Kendi IS, or if they do, they have NO idea he's proposed a Constitutional Amendment to put in place a Department, likely headed by him or his ilk.
See, the only problem is people getting to SEE who Kendi IS. This Department of Antiracism is nothing short of totalitarianism. This Department is answerable to NOBODY, gets final say on what "policies" or LAWS will be ALLOWED, with DISCIPLINARY PUNISHMENTS to be meeted out to his-own-personal-definition-of "racists."
People, I think, even his supporters have no idea what this man is capable of thinking up. Given, amendment not likely to pass. But for something like this to even be CONCEIVED, and given the thumbs up by the media?
Scary, is all I can say. But if people find OUT...
I don't find it scary at all, because it isn't going to go anywhere at all. It's a booger in the bush to divert attention away from real problems...corruption, monopolies, housing, environmental damage...
Very much a minor side note, but the observation that "only five percent of college presidents are Black women" was an odd way to highlight inequity, since that's just about their percentage in the population at large.
Why do people capitalize тАЬblackтАЭ and тАЬwhiteтАЭ? They are not words derived from proper nouns. African or European would be capitalized, not color words.
I'm well aware of how capitalization works, thanks. I just do what the powers that be decree, because it's not a fight I feel like having every day. So when we were told by the media and university elite to change from African American to Black, I changed from African American to Black. Don't worry, we'll be using a new term soon.
I really resisted that change because I saw it for what it has turned out to be: an attempt to make "race" a binary, even though nobody I know* is actually black or white, but exhibit a vast array of skin tones from pink to nearly-black and everything in between. I notice this Waukesha murderer is just barely darker skinned than I am, and I'm "white".
*-possible exceptions: Edgar Winter is pretty white, but albino is not a race. And Earl "The Pearl" Monroe, great point guard in the 60s and 70s, was pretty black as the whatever-you-want-to-use-for-really-black ("ace of spades", "night", "a coal miners' adjective", etc...)
It's hardly a minor side note. Much of the "evidence" of racism is not evidence of racism at all, and that's a very significant truth.
Given black underperformance in academics, then they are overrepresented.
Around 7% should be the magic number. Every percent of disparity is evidence of graver and graver systemic racism by colleges. No other explanations are possible for the Awoken; if a person considers any other explanation it means they are a White Supremacist.
Well...that depends on if you think Kendi is a better thinker than Thomas Sowell. Which you certainly can, even though one uses facts and the other mere assertions.
Well, personally I think Kendi is a shallow thinking, vain, racist, wannabe dictator. He is a very talented demagogue though.
Read Thomas Sowell. Remember, Kendi's actions speak loud. I'm no fan of Amy Coney Barrett, but Kendi's tweet asserting that her Haitian adopted children showed her up as a colonizer was a low blow. You don't attack people's families when you don't like their politics. Character is revealed in behavior.
Sowell's interests are legion and I started with his 1980 book Knowledge & Decisions. He has written about world cultures, migration and other subjects, all enlightening.
I have read a lot of Sowell. I think his books Wealth, Poverty, and Politics and Basic Economics should be required reading in every high school in the United States. Reading those two books alone is probably worth more than getting a bachelors in most college subjects. At least it would be worth more to America.
Totally on board with that. Required reading. Also, just imo, Kendi doesn't rise of the level of demagogue. Kendi is just a grifter playing the shallow integrity circuit.
I don't know--he's awfully successful. Logic isn't what will make people stop believing in the sermons he's serving up. He's smooth and personable.
Well, M. Knox,
I think, in the end, it will come down to the undecideds. I think there's a raft of people who don't know who Kendi IS, or if they do, they have NO idea he's proposed a Constitutional Amendment to put in place a Department, likely headed by him or his ilk.
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/how-to-fix-politics-in-america/inequality/pass-an-anti-racist-constitutional-amendment/
See, the only problem is people getting to SEE who Kendi IS. This Department of Antiracism is nothing short of totalitarianism. This Department is answerable to NOBODY, gets final say on what "policies" or LAWS will be ALLOWED, with DISCIPLINARY PUNISHMENTS to be meeted out to his-own-personal-definition-of "racists."
People, I think, even his supporters have no idea what this man is capable of thinking up. Given, amendment not likely to pass. But for something like this to even be CONCEIVED, and given the thumbs up by the media?
Scary, is all I can say. But if people find OUT...
I don't find it scary at all, because it isn't going to go anywhere at all. It's a booger in the bush to divert attention away from real problems...corruption, monopolies, housing, environmental damage...
Yeah, a grifter.
Thanks