uh...tell her how you really feel!

I knew I'd love this thread when I saw who the last few posters were.

Signed,
DrPhil's Side Minion

What do you think happened here? I think it is sad that we can't just say that an entire class of public school students has been accepted to a 4 year college. Why do we have to push that it is an "all-male, african-american" group of students.

I don't know many schools (public, to be honest) that have 100% of their students go off to college. Because we phrase it the way it has been phrased, we are making note that we don't think "all-male, african americans" from a public school can make it to college. Why does it have to be a race thing? Why does it have to be a gender thing? If it was an "all-female, caucasian" group of students from a public school, no one would bat an eyelash. Why is that?

By harping on the age and gender, we are saying that african-american males are destined for worse. I get that a great percentage of them go to prison or join gangs (from what the article says) but, that is their own fault. If you end up in prison or join a gang, it isn't because of your race, it is because you made those choices.

Good for these young boys, but I hope they got through school on their own accord and not because the school pushed them through, just so they could say this.

Clearly you don't have any understanding of what being an African American male is like and why JUST ONE going to college is indeed an achievement.

Maybe if you took a look at statistics from the past 20 or more years, there is clearly a connection to Black males going to and graduating from college in low numbers while steadily increasing the prison populations and cemetaries before reaching age 25.

You can teach anyone to read but can you teach them to UNDERSTAND what they read?

How can you say the two phrases in bold in the same breath?

I'm not even going to address the rest of your post, as it would be pointless. Have madmax fill you in.

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You want a cookie? OMFG I JUST INSPECTED A BUILDING SO STUFF WOULDN'T FALL OFF OF IT AND KILL PEOPLE! Let me tell the Internetz!

No.

This is an unsurprisingly dumb assertion.

I was going to wonder how the hell this thread ended up where it ended up. Now I see how.

Well, damn, okay then.

LOL--and I'm not to blame for the turn of this thread. I'm just riding on coattails after the fact.

There's a lot of inconsistency in this post.

No, African American males are not destined for worse. People confuse disproportionate involvement in crime, lack of education, and unemployment to imply destiny. For instance, the average African American male is not involved in crime. Therefore, being an African American male is not a "plight" nor is it ridden with hardtimes and negativity.

With that said, personal choices matter but it's more than just personal choices. We are talking about aggregate effects here. But, I sense that I'm typing to a brick wall right now.

Way to feed the troll AND stand up against racism in one shot!

Wait till he finds out you're "Latina"!

Well in another thread he did say he wanted to open the border for Mexicans and send the Africans back to Africa, so in whatever incarnation he returns in he probably won't have a problem with her.

She's not Latina.....she's "Latino" lol

You -- Corner, please.

K,thx.

^^^^ awww...it's too easy.

I will pass on this one.

What?!

I mean, I think she does her best in life to convince folks that she's not, but she did admit to it once. You would think that being from a marginalized group herself, she would either 1) not feed this troll or 2) feed the troll by actually taking a stand against his remarks.