<p>You can’t quote something that big and give like 1 sentence analyzing it lol</p>
<p>tl;dr:
The black kids acted up a lot.</p>
<p>I encourage everyone here to watch “The Wire”.</p>
<p>especially season 4, I was reminded of season 4 the whole time I was reading that.</p>
<p>The person who wrote that would call my response typical of blacks, but legit, the way it’s written is definitely racist. The generalizations are among the most ridiculous I’ve heard, espcially, especially this one: “There is something else that is striking about blacks. They seem to have no sense of romance, of falling in love.” An entire race, billions upon billions of people, millions of whom are married, have no sense of love? It’s absolutely ridiculous. Especially when the author is basing this on his observations of children, who rarely fall in love at all, no matter whether or not they believe they do.
Sure, it makes some intelligent points, sure some parts of the argument are cogent. Maybe we need to be exposed to the “harsh reality of black schools.” But, though I’ve never been to a black school, but I tutored at one for a year, and I did an internship teaching with a group of students that was about 99% black and I can tell you that wasn’t my experience. I never saw the entire classroom gang up on the white teacher for whom I tutored, whose entire class was black. Well, maybe some were biracial. I never saw any child screaming. I never saw any of the lighter students called out as a “half-breed” and the students never critiqued intellectual, light-skinned me. When I walked through the halls to the classroom, I heard no yells coming from the other rooms. I’m not going to lie and say it was ideal. The kids were often not as interested as they were at my elementary school, which was about 50/50, with maybe 3 Asians. Many of them said curse words, watched rap videos and cartoons like Family Guy. But it was far, far from that.
And in my internship, there were a few kids who were worse, but there were a lot of kids who were better. Of course, this was a more diverse group in terms of socioeconomic background. Two of my students were going to private schools next year, but some of them were from schools worse than the one at which I taught.
Perhaps the essay is simply a description of the worst school in the world, along with many uncalled for and racist generalizations. Its not anything good.</p>
<p>What makes you so sure that a black school in Cincinnati is going to be identical to a black school in the South? And as the introduction said, the tone is racist, but it’s not right to ignore the essay because of the bias of the author.</p>
<p>^ First off, did I ever say that? No. By the time I finished the essay, when I was writing that response, I didn’t remember the school was in the south.
Nonetheless, both of my older siblings (a long with a ton of my family) went to black schools in the south. It was hardly great, my sister was sent to live with her older sister so she could go to a better school, and now, living in the same city, she sends her daughter to private school. Now my brother teaches students in black schools in DC public, working with troubled and mentally disabled students, and it’s not that bad. Of course, my cousin is a bit of a DC public horror story, ignored and illiterate for so long, but I still think a school like that is rare.</p>
<p>And Cincinnati public is far from good. </p>
<p>I’ve never read The Jungle or any other piece of Classical reform literature. I’m not asking for an essay with academic balance, but this essay goes far beyond acceptable. Describing a race as incapable of basic emotion is beyond ridiculous. Saying all blacks are the same? Ridiculous. This essay shouldn’t be ignored, but most of it should be condemned. I can skip over the anti-Semitism in Anna Karenina because it’s a few short lines in an otherwise wonderful book. But the racism in this article is disgusting. Should I really listen to the advice of a person on educating a race of which s/he obviously has no understanding?</p>
<p>yeah…i think that article went a little too far, there’s a reason why some thoughts should be kept in your head…</p>
<p>well it really does show a different experience though, prob an experience that barely any of us has had</p>
<p>i come from the south…NOLA to be precise (which has a much worse school system than Cincinnati by far). anyone that can afford it, ANYONE will go to private school…so about 50% of people go to private school. public schools are mostly black, and they are baaaad. I went to a public magnet school (great students, great teachers, bad facilities). I can tell you that had there been no public magnet, my parents would have found a way to send me to a private, no matter what. the public schools there are really like that.</p>
<p>just to lighten the mood a little :)</p>
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<p>wow this entire thread is ridiculous. And for the OP, affirmative action will never be dumped, because almost every school wants good diversity, and they will do anything to get it. Even if it is accepting “less qualified” minorities. Everyone knows it, so get over it.</p>
<p>No, that essay didn’t go a “little over the top,” it was unacceptably racist. This forum is absolutely pathetic.</p>
<p>supereagle, i never argued against AA</p>
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<p>100% agree.</p>
<p>I think affirmative action is kind of stupid, since getting into college should be about the best students, just like getting a job should be about the best person for the job, not giving under-qualified minorities the job (or place in school) because there is a quota to fill…</p>
<p>I think the rigorous environment, the concentration on academic merit and the lack of AA is what makes Caltech special and its admissions process a little more predictable than other top 10’s. </p>
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As far as I can tell, it’s just Caltech, and the publics in California (UC_) and UMich do not because of ballot initiatives to remove AA.</p>
<p>That was the most racist piece of writing I have ever read! What was the point in including it again? Just wondering…</p>
<p>its kind of ironic, the state with the most diversity does not recognize AA. wth?! though AA is esentially reverse discrimination, without it, i’d be screwed.</p>
<p>Though some have accused the UC’s of practicing AA anyway. I think there might be a little to that accusation.</p>
<p>FreeFocus’s sentiments FTW</p>
<h2>its kind of ironic, the state with the most diversity does not recognize AA. wth?!</h2>
<p>No, it makes perfect sense. If there was natural diversity when it came to all forms of talent, ability, interest and intelligence then there would be no need for AA - AA is arguably needed when there’s a lack of diversity.</p>