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I came across an interesting article about two weeks ago. Somebody had posted a link to a 20 year old article archived on the East Bay Express titled "Rich, Black, Flunking." The premise of the article was about a study conducted by Nigerian-born UC Berkeley Anthropology Professor John Ogbu at the behest of wealthy black parents in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights to determine why their kids weren't performing as well as the white kids despite coming from well educated and financially well-off families like their peers. In summary, the study concluded that the average black student in the district put in far less effort than their non-black counterparts, they viewed doing well in school as "acting white," and their parents overall didn't involve themselves in their children's education at the rate other non-black parents did. Faced with this inconvenient truth they were, of course, outraged and claimed the study was bunk and flawed because the reason couldn't possibly be them. It had to be racism.
I bookmarked this article with the intention of creating a thread on it. Interestingly enough, when I returned today, poof! It's gone.
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Evidently, the folks at East Bay Express must have noticed this old article was suddenly getting excessive hits and when they saw the subject content they decided it had to be removed so nobody could view it. Race relations were at their height in this country through much of the 1990s and into the 2000s. A Gallup poll I saw a few years ago also noted that and then something happened around 2010 or 2011 and racial harmony started going south. I have firmly placed that collapse on the shoulders of our media. It was the media who began assigning racism to any criticism of Obama's big government policies. It was the media who began emphasizing white on black violence, police on black violence, despite how little of it there actually was, while ignoring the inverse which is far more common. It is the media who has been treating black Americans like children who can neither be criticized nor held responsible for their actions and we are the seeing the results of that. There has been a serious decay in African American culture and it's getting worse by the day because they are being protected by the media. We cannot solve a problem if we aren't permitted to have an honest discussion about it. The deletion of this article is another example of the media running interference in the name of political correctness.
The media is the enemy of the people.
You can still find some sites with excerpts of the article by doing a search of the title:
I bookmarked this article with the intention of creating a thread on it. Interestingly enough, when I returned today, poof! It's gone.
Rich, Black, Flunking | East Bay Express | Oakland, Berkeley & Alameda
Cal Professor John Ogbu thinks he knows why rich black kids are failing in school. Nobody wants to hear it.
eastbayexpress.com
Evidently, the folks at East Bay Express must have noticed this old article was suddenly getting excessive hits and when they saw the subject content they decided it had to be removed so nobody could view it. Race relations were at their height in this country through much of the 1990s and into the 2000s. A Gallup poll I saw a few years ago also noted that and then something happened around 2010 or 2011 and racial harmony started going south. I have firmly placed that collapse on the shoulders of our media. It was the media who began assigning racism to any criticism of Obama's big government policies. It was the media who began emphasizing white on black violence, police on black violence, despite how little of it there actually was, while ignoring the inverse which is far more common. It is the media who has been treating black Americans like children who can neither be criticized nor held responsible for their actions and we are the seeing the results of that. There has been a serious decay in African American culture and it's getting worse by the day because they are being protected by the media. We cannot solve a problem if we aren't permitted to have an honest discussion about it. The deletion of this article is another example of the media running interference in the name of political correctness.
The media is the enemy of the people.
You can still find some sites with excerpts of the article by doing a search of the title:
Rich, Black, Flunking « Isegoria
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