Only 47% of Black Males graduate high school

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Please note I said my all-purpose "some not all™."

Respect you, too, Raul. You're good in my book.

 

Carter says he lives in the U.K., now. Carter says "we need niggas like Malcom X, who was on that reality shit..." This is one of the worst attempts at a sockpuppet that I've ever seen. What's the matter, andrae? Are you so desperate to win an argument that you resort to creating your own support?

 

Look at this SORRY dress-wearin' bitch talking shit about me to another mofo.

That bears all the ear-marks of a downtrodden booty-scratchin' EUNUCH.

If it makes you feel better thinking I'm 5'5 and living in mom's basement YOU GO GIRL..:smt043

 

She totally owned your ass fool.

You're a pathetic vaudeville act from a by-gone era.:smt039

Just leave her be or she'll just run your ass through again..and not the way you like it...

 

I call BULLSHIT! on iggy's PAC-10 ed-u-ma-cation!....cha-wrong. Burnt Republican Tea Partiers only have High School educations.


Now "Buck Dance" :rock: GO!..GO...GO! Buck yeah Buck!:smt019

Don't worry about this lame ChiCity!...girl you rock!

 

LEARN TO READ!!!
Carter said he was in the UK for school.
Fam if I cared so much about winning arguements I would take the popular view on every topic instead of standing by what I believe in.
I am seriously sad for you and hope you can work on your learning disability. If you want I can help you find a nice learning center in your area.

 

What a coincidence, so does a former member, JayBee.

 

Karma you know Carter isn't a hater. He's a young kid who's into hip hop. He rarely comments on anything political.

 

GayBee had a fantasy where he was raped by an entire football team.

 

I call bullshit on you having a job at all.

The problem with your argument is that it presumes Black people are currently displaying less personal responsibility than other groups.

That's idiotic. We've got a Black President for God's sake. Where's the personal responsibility of the Asian people to work hard enough to have one of their people make it to the White House? Or Hispanic people, or Middle Eastern people, or Women, or Gay people, or Polynesian people?

Black people have worked harder to compensate for inequality since the first day of slavery.

Increasing inequality, actively ignoring it as things worsen by demanding that it should simply be overcome, wastes energy that could be spent excelling even further. When you tell an elementary school student to use personal responsibility to learn in computer classes that have no computers, in classrooms with 50 students and no desks, then be prepared: they probably will. Despite the number of lost youth who do not graduate, there will be many inspiring stories of Black children who overcame the odds and become lawyers or teachers or politicians. Their personal responsibility will be so impressive that most adle-minded Beckian Fox watchers like yourself will miss out on what is obvious: If you had given such students adequate resources in school, how much MORE could they have done? What breakthroughs could they have offered our society? What amazing projects would they have had the time to imagine and plan? What diseases could be cured by the student who had a science lab in high school?

Bill Gates attributes much of his success to the fact that, as a child, he had access to play & work with some of the primitive computers of that time. What would the next Bill Gates offer our society, let alone our country? By denying Black students resources and tools and teachers we ensure that while some will indeed show the personal responsibility to overcome these obstacles, all will have missed opportunities while they wasted time overcoming inequal treatment when they could have simply been becoming amazing.

In one of the books I referenced, a young Black girl tested into AP History, and wished she could take that class. But that class wasn't available to her. Instead, the school put her in sewing & hair braiding. Maybe that girl will be too determined to stop. Maybe she will overcome, go to college, and someday become an Anthropologist. But there's literally no getting back the years she will have wasted in a school that did nothing for her.

And don't forget, when she gets into school with the other kids who had the class that she wanted, she will have to overcome the fact that they have learned more than her. They will have had access to a teacher she did not have access to.

And while she works on overcoming that, she'll be wasting more and more opportunities to make discoveries and improve the world around her, the one we live in.

You talk of personal responsibility, but what you mean to say is "the responsibility of others" because what this is really about is YOUR responsibility and that's what scares you. Every single American who is out of school and supposedly working at a "pretty good job" has had opportunities that are being denied to today's young Black youth. Every American, of every race, has a responsibility to demand better for the next generation. But rather than even address the issue, you'd rather put the blame on babies.

What a weak, pathetic excuse for an adult.

 

Its hard to dislike you because you speak truth.

 

There is truth in both arguments. But where do you find the middle ground?

As a teacher who works at a school in an extremely low socio-economic bracket, with kids who come to school with nothing, whose opportunities to take education into their own hands at home is next to none, I see how important it is for our school to step up and provide our kids with every resource and opportunity possible in order for them to achieve success.

But I also struggle daily with extreme misbehaviour. My day is 90% behaviour management. My students have very little self direction, VERY little motivation, low confidence and next to no interest in school as a whole. This is due to a variety of environmental factors, the most part being their family life. Very little value is placed on education. So the attitude and behaviour of my students makes it EXTREMELY difficult for me to do my job to its full potential.

A lot of blame is placed on teachers, whereas most people have no idea how difficult out job really is. For those who teach in schools like mine, and schools like those some of you have mentioned in the States, we work with what we've got, we give it our all, we provide opportunities.. but at the end of the day, the responsibility has to lie with the student. You can spend your whole life leading a horse to water, you can try every tactic you know, you can use every resource you have available to you, but you cannot make it drink.

 

I am a Radio Frequency Design Engineer. The only thing you can do for me is vacuum my office. More importantly, you need to be exposed for the fraud that you are.

 

I will start this reply out by saying I'm aware that Chi has me on ignore but this is one of those comments that can't be ignored.

I read Chi's reply and all though it is passionate and well meaning it couldn't be more misleading. The one thing we can all agree on is that school system for all kids are sub par and illequipped. We can agree that something must be done but who should do it?

She suggests that we should hold school districts accountable for the poor teaching and less access to learning materials which to some degree is true but not entirely. One of the biggest problems is parent involvement. I don't have numbers to back it up but from my own personal experience working in an after school program during under grad I noticed thathispanic parents and other immigrant parents attended every parent counselor meeting. They checked that we checked their kids homework correctly and I'm not saying none of the American black parents didn't do that but in far less numbers.

Chi spoke about how Bill Gates had old computers to work on as a child, even though I hate using Bill Gates as a model for intelligence since windows sucks balls, but he came from and upper middle class family and I'm sure they had personal resources to get him old computers or he lived in a school district that could provide that because it was a richer district. A better example would have probably been Einstein who came from a single parent home with eight kids and who studied hard or even Abraham Lincoln for that matter but I guess that takes self determination out of the equation.

The schools are over crowded and drug infested but can't address that before we address our own actions. We, the black men, need to be honest. The schools don't compare to the problems in the home and the streets and to be honest I'm not comfortable relying on the same racist decision makers who allow all schools to go down in standards (except the wealthy ones of course) each year so who else does that leave? US!
We have minds and even though our resources are limited we can use them. Simple things like grammar and spellin can be taught at home. Simple math can be taught and reinforced at home because the school districts have proven time and time again we can't rely on them.

As far as be no more less responsible than any other group I have to call major bullshit because the difference between us and the other minorities is they have a sense of community. They take car of their own, how many times have we spoken about the crabs in a barrel theory on here?
We're still stuck in a slave's mentality waiting for massa to help us/save us. We have each other that's it period.
Capitalism at its core creates competition and the rich have created the illusion that its between the races when infact its between the rich and the poor. Until we elevate above the race shit we can't effectively deal with the wealth disproportions. So first step is to educate ourselves both academically and spiritually because this isn't going to be easy but it can be done but I think waiting on the powers that be to do something won't help.

 

Cosign.
Good post kid

 

Yet your comprehension skills are so poor. Cheer up bucko.
Feel free to try and expose me brother, I welcome the challenge it helps me grow.

 

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You just kicked the colon polyps out that fools ass.

 

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