Obama announces new education program focused on African Americans...executive order

[Antidisestablishmentarian]

Chesus- what happened to your stance that if kids do bad at school it's their parents fault?

I guess only if they are white?

Edit: if you still believe that, then why throw more money at a problem when it's the parents fault?

 

[Winter Woman]

if there's a group of white, black, asian, whatever group, and there's a law designed to help that one group... that's not racist.... racist is trying to say that one group doesn't deserve the help because the law is race specific...

even though there exists a historically proven statistic to show that a certain group has been discriminated against, any attempt to fix it is racist... is that your argument?

Any law that gives to one race and not the others is racist.

 

[Winter Woman]

Does anybody actually have kids here?

How much did 300 page spiral bound notebooks cost lately at the store? How about 3 ring binders?

If you cant answer these two questions, SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Its unbelievable. I saw 100 page spiral notebooks for almost $6 each at safeway. WHAT THE FUCK???? I get 5 for $1 at the flea market.

They do get more expensive as they get older.

 

[ginwilly]

if there's a group of white, black, asian, whatever group, and there's a law designed to help that one group... that's not racist.... racist is trying to say that one group doesn't deserve the help because the law is race specific...

even though there exists a historically proven statistic to show that a certain group has been discriminated against, any attempt to fix it is racist... is that your argument?

1st paragraph is where we have the disconnect. If a law is designed to help blue people only it is because we think blue people need help that purple people don't. That's what makes it racist.

2nd paragraph is a big lol no!
I believe our laws should be color blind and equal to all humans. Throughout our short history our government made laws favoring whites over blacks, that was wrong then and wrong now. Nobody is arguing we don't have that ugly not too distant past. My stance is racially specific laws are dividing and harmful, they don't FIX shit.

 

[dtp5150]

Any law that gives to one race and not the others is racist.

Poor people, thru student loans, pay twice as much for education as those who could afford cash. That means the people who can least afford education pay the most. Lets remember, the African-Americans were not immigrants. Their ancestry consists of slave grandparents being kidnapped and sold via boats to the united states. African-Americans and Native-Americans are the only non-immigrant ethnicity in the USA. Also, Mayans/aztecs ( west coast).

 

[Harrekin]

Does anybody actually have kids here?

How much did 300 page spiral bound notebooks cost lately at the store? How about 3 ring binders?

If you cant answer these two questions, SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Its unbelievable. I saw 100 page spiral notebooks for almost $6 each at safeway. WHAT THE FUCK???? I get 5 for $1 at the flea market.

I don't know what you have to buy over there, but add books, uniforms, etc it's insane.

The point is still that race specific laws are racist.

 

[Winter Woman]

Poor people, thru student loans, pay twice as much for education as those who could afford cash. Lets remember, the African-Americans were not immigrants. Their ancestry consists of slave grandparents being kidnapped and sold via boats to the united states. African-Americans and Native-Americans are the only non-immigrant ethnicity in the USA.

If I buy a car and pay cash I pay less than a guy that needs a loan.

Just to make sure facts are correct. It wasn't their grandparents. I don't know a soul that was a slave in the 1980's. It was probably a great-great-great grandparent and at some point you have to stop using them as an excuse for being racist to others.

 

[kelly4]

Poor people, thru student loans, pay twice as much for education as those who could afford cash.

Pay cash?

Not everyone who gets a loan for college is poor.

 

[ChesusRice]

I don't know what you have to buy over there, but add books, uniforms, etc it's insane.

The point is still that race specific laws are racist.

Percentage of Public School Students by Racial Characteristics.
Table 2 illustrates the

student racial characteristics for students attending public schools in the Appalachian states.

During SY2008-2009,
Virginia had the highest percentage of Asian/Pacific Islander-identified

students (5.9 percent) in its public schools, as well as the highest percentage of Black, non-

Hispanic identified students (26.4 percent) and Hispanic students (9.2 percent).
West Virginia

had the highest percentage of White students (92.8 percent), followed by
Kentucky (84.7

percent). The option to select
“two or more races” was not offered in these states during the

above-mentioned school year
http://www2.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/rac1/appalachia.pdf

So is it racist that the Goverment is spending money to help out the mostly white appalachia region?


School districts in Appalachia are in largely rural territories. In fact, only one of the four states in


the region (Virginia) has a sizable number of urban and suburban districts. The region also has a


substantial percentage of students from low socio-economic backgrounds as evidenced by the


percentages of students receiving free and reduced lunches daily. (See Tables 1 through 5 in this


report for more information on the educational profile of the region.) Given these factors that


reflect

the region‘s unique educational environment, members of the Appalachia RAC identified

the following seven needs:
Closing the Achievement Gap.


Improving Instructional Leadership and Effectiveness.


Building and Sustaining Systemic Capacity.


Addressing Legislation.


Ensuring Equity.


Promoting Family/Community Engagement and Understanding Socio-Economic Status


(SES) Factors.


Re-Thinking Education.

http://www2.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/rac1/appalachia.pdf

 

[Harrekin]

Ok cool stories guys, here's my idea:

Im gonna start a basketball training programme exclusively for white basketball players. In fairness it's easy to see there's an achievement gap between whites and blacks at basketball.

 

[kelly4]

Ok cool stories guys, here's my idea:

Im gonna start a basketball training programme exclusively for white basketball players. In fairness it's easy to see there's an achievement gap between whites and blacks at basketball.

That should qualify for a government grant...LOL!

 

[ginwilly]

Poor people, thru student loans, pay twice as much for education as those who could afford cash. That means the people who can least afford education pay the most. Lets remember, the African-Americans were not immigrants. Their ancestry consists of slave grandparents being kidnapped and sold via boats to the united states. African-Americans and Native-Americans are the only non-immigrant ethnicity in the USA. Also, Mayans/aztecs ( west coast).

I think if you really wanted to level the playing field we need to get rid of our drug laws. These laws may not be racist in their wording but have been undeniably racist in their execution. More daddies at home helping raise their kids instead of being locked up would be the best thing that happened in the poor urban areas.

 

[ChesusRice]

Ok cool stories guys, here's my idea:

Im gonna start a basketball training programme exclusively for white basketball players. In fairness it's easy to see there's an achievement gap between whites and blacks at basketball.

All ready been tried
Whites-Only Basketball League: All-American Basketball Alliance Bans Blacks, Foreigners
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/20/whites-only-basketball-le_n_429281.html

A whites-only basketball league aims to launch in twelve cities this summer, according to a report in the Augusta Chronicle. The All-American Basketball Alliance would also ban players born outside the United States.
The league's commissioner, Don "Moose" Lewis, claims that he doesn't "hate anyone of color. But people of white, American-born citizens are in the minority now." Thus, he says, the All-American Basketball Alliance would be "a league for white players to play fundamental basketball, which they like."

 

[Harrekin]

And you can't see that is fundamentally racist?

Or is it just ok when King Obama says it?

 

[Winter Woman]

All ready been tried
Whites-Only Basketball League: All-American Basketball Alliance Bans Blacks, Foreigners
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/20/whites-only-basketball-le_n_429281.html

A whites-only basketball league aims to launch in twelve cities this summer, according to a report in the Augusta Chronicle. The All-American Basketball Alliance would also ban players born outside the United States.
The league's commissioner, Don "Moose" Lewis, claims that he doesn't "hate anyone of color. But people of white, American-born citizens are in the minority now." Thus, he says, the All-American Basketball Alliance would be "a league for white players to play fundamental basketball, which they like."

Looks like White Boys can't jump after all. lol.

 

[Red1966]

Would you say the same thing if they spent extra money trying to help out poor whites in Appalachia? http://www2.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/rac1/appalachia.pdf This report presents the deliberations of the Appalachia Regional Advisory Committee (Appalachia RAC), one of 10 RACs established under the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C. sections 9601 et. seq.) to assess the educational needs of the region. The Committee ‘s report outlines the educational needs across the four states of Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky that comprise the Appalachia region. Committee deliberations took place May 23, 2011, through June 21, 2011.

Pure diversion. Nowhere in the article does it even mention race at all. I can't believe you were stupid enough to even think that this applied.

 

[Red1966]

there's no threatening in this forum either. chesus tone it down.

What, you don't think him faking evidence I belong to a racist organization didn't cross any lines? His behavior is patently offensive, and has been so for a long time.

 

[dtp5150]

Pay cash?

Not everyone who gets a loan for college is poor.

lol@ putting affordable eduacation on loan.

 

[ginwilly]

lol@ putting affordable eduacation on loan.

you got jipped

 

[Red1966]

racist? a program that singles out and helps a certain community, who happen to be african american, is racist... really? get that fucking bong away from your face and read carefully: THE FUCKING MAINSTREAM, I NEED MORE RATINGS, BULLSHIT MEDIA IS SELLING YOU A COVER STORY LIE. there are 1000s of programs out there to help communities in dire need... communities that are overwhelmingly white.... you don't hear about them because the media knows, who gives a damn, if you single out the fact that it's for BOOOO!!! AFRICAN AMERICANS!! it turns very scary.... couple it with all sorts of euphamistic phrases and before you know it idiots are freaking out because the government is RACIST... and the GUY IN CHARGE IS BLACK!!!! IT'S WAR ON WHITEHOOD!!! OMG goddamn that was satisfying....

Well, now we know why you tolerate ChesusRice, if he shares your racist viewpoint, anythings OK. "a program that singles out and helps a certain community, who happen to be african american, is racist... really?" Really. Are you an idiot? happen to be? A certain community that excludes all non-blacks doesn't "happen" to be black. Tell us again how discriminating on the basis of skin color isn't racism. Racist hypocrite. Go ahead, ban me, I dare you.