In an effort to close the racial achievement gap, Berkeley High School plans to fire five science teachers and eliminate science lab instruction to free up more resources to help struggling minority students.
One teacher who supports the decision says not to worry about the white students left without a science lab: "The most academically prepared kids will get by. They’ll find tutors, they’ll learn the material one way or another. But the others won’t."
This is part of a national trend of high achieving white students being left to fend for themselves as schools and teachers shift their time and resources toward educational strategies aimed at lifting minority achievement. According to a report issued in 2008 by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, our nation's brightest students appear to be languishing for lack of attention since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in 2001.
NCLB requires schools and districts to focus their attention on the academic achievement of students of "major racial and ethnic subgroups." While many previous state-created systems of accountability only measured average school performance, NCLB mandates that achievement gaps be eliminated between white and black students within the same school. Under NCLB, entire schools have been forced to close because of a handful of black students who are unable to keep up with their white peers.
In Houston, a high school with 2500 students was closed because not enough black students (who made up only 4% of the student body) were able to pass a state-mandated math exam. The school had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars implementing a new math program designed to boost math scores among blacks. It was unsuccessful, and because a handful of blacks couldn't pass the test, nearly 2400 white and Hispanic students had to be relocated to other overcrowded schools.
Across the country, any classes or programs that are seen as benefiting whites are being eliminated. In 2008, the College Board cited minority underrepresentation as the reason for the elimination of the Advanced Placement exams in Computer Science, Latin Literature, Italian, and French Literature. [The AP Spanish exams are still offered, presumably because Hispanics tend to do well on them.]
Schools no longer care about achievement itself; the racial achievement gap is the only thing that matters. And since programs designed to raise minority achievement haven't closed the racial achievement gap, steps are now being taken to deliberately hinder white achievement.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
"Anti-Violence Activist" Charged with Murder
Here's another crime article from Rochester, NY.
The article speaks for itself. I have nothing else to add.
Here's a couple other stories from Rochester, NY that this blog has covered in recent months:
- Hispanic Man Who Murdered Four White People Given Standing Ovation Upon Return to Jail (link)
- City Residents Carjack and Rape Pregnant Suburban Woman (link)
Anti-Violence Activist Charged With 17-Year-Old Murder
(ROCHESTER, NY) - Two people have been arrested in connection with a nearly two-decades old murder. One of the suspects is a well-known anti-violence activist currently in prison for assault.
Joyce Powell and 35-year-old Shaliq Reed are charged with murder in the case of John Rutledge. Rutledge, who police said was a well-known drug dealer, was found on the side of a road back in 1992. Rutledge's body was found in the town of Carlton, about 40 miles west of Rochester.
The 47-year-old Powell, who used the title of "Reverend," was well known for organizing anti-violence crusades in Rochester, and was an outspoken critic of police. In 2007 however, she was convicted of brutally assaulting a woman, who was beaten with a baseball bat and thrown out a window. Powell was sentenced to spend 16 years behind bars.
The article speaks for itself. I have nothing else to add.
Here's a couple other stories from Rochester, NY that this blog has covered in recent months:
- Hispanic Man Who Murdered Four White People Given Standing Ovation Upon Return to Jail (link)
- City Residents Carjack and Rape Pregnant Suburban Woman (link)
Saturday, December 19, 2009
The Looming Crisis in Human Genetics: Studies Show Recent Human Evolution Has Resulted in Significant Genetic Differences Between Races
There is a looming crisis in the field of human genetics which will become public knowledge within the next year. In 2010, dozens of research papers will be released that identify specific genes associated with almost every imaginable heritable trait - including intelligence and personality. These findings have alarming political implications because they show that recent human evolution has resulted in inequalities and genetic differences between ethnicities and races.
This is what evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller reported last month in The Economist.
In his book Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior, released earlier this year, Miller writes that "the central intellectual taboo of modern American life" is the refusal to "talk about meaningful psychological differences between groups."
Perhaps the most important psychological trait that differs between groups is conscientiousness, which Miller defines as self-control, willpower, reliability, consistency, dependability, trustworthiness, and the ability to delay gratification and pursue long-term goals. Males with low conscientiousness are often unreliable, undependable, impulsive, flaky, and downright criminal. They tend to be more comfortable with chaos, and are more apt to leave young females pregnant and single.
Miller explains that conscientiousness differs between groups because it has evolved in the past ten thousand years during man's transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer and herder.
Once agriculture was introduced into a region, it's likely that natural selection favored farmers who were able to accumulate wealth by deferring gratification and working hard even when there was already enough food to eat. Because sub-Saharan Africa adopted agriculture only relatively recently, there was less time for genes for high conscientiousness to be selected for.
It's long been suggested that blacks are less "future-minded" than whites (or, to put it in economic terms, blacks have a "higher time preference" than whites). By casual observation, blacks seem to focus more on their well-being in the present and the immediate future and place less emphasis on their well-being in the further future.
Recent studies have confirmed the stereotype that blacks engage in more conspicuous consumption and save less for the future than whites.
A 2008 study conducted by finance professors at the Wharton School and the University of Chicago found that blacks spend 30% more than whites of comparable income on visible goods such as fashionable clothes, jewelry, and flashy cars.
Because they spend so much of their discretionary income on bling, blacks have less money than whites to save and invest. According to Emory Law School Professor Dorothy A. Brown, blacks "tend to invest into stocks a lot less, in percentage terms, than white Americans in the same income brackets."
The inability of blacks to delay gratification and plan for the future is usually blamed on whites. For example, in 2006 the Seattle Public Schools' Equity and Race Relations Department declared that "having a 'future time orientation'" is an example of white cultural racism.
Even though in the coming years genetic studies will reveal that differences in conscientiousness among whites and blacks are partly the result of differential evolution, we can't expect the mainstream media to abandon the blank-slate model of human differences. It's up to us to educate ourselves and our loved ones about the science of human diversity and its consequences.
To get the ball rolling, here's some advice Miller provides for white middle-class suburban boys: avoid succumbing to the influences of rap and hip-hop music. Young white males may think they're displaying "coolness, attitude, and street cred" when they mimic black rap stars, but they're really advertising low conscientiousness. This will repel well-adjusted white girls, who possess an (evolved) inclination for highly conscientiousness men.
More Information:
A review of Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior and an interview with its author, evolutionary pshychology professor Geoffrey Miller, can be found at Richard Hoste's HBDBooks site.
Another popular science book released earlier this year, The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, by evolutionary anthropologists Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending, explains in more detail how time preference may have declined (among some people more than others) as a consequence of agriculture.
Both of these books have been positively reviewed in the conservative press (The 10,000 Year Explosion in the Wall Steet Journal and Spent in the Washington Times). Either of them would make a great last-minute Christmas gift!
This is what evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller reported last month in The Economist.
In his book Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior, released earlier this year, Miller writes that "the central intellectual taboo of modern American life" is the refusal to "talk about meaningful psychological differences between groups."
Perhaps the most important psychological trait that differs between groups is conscientiousness, which Miller defines as self-control, willpower, reliability, consistency, dependability, trustworthiness, and the ability to delay gratification and pursue long-term goals. Males with low conscientiousness are often unreliable, undependable, impulsive, flaky, and downright criminal. They tend to be more comfortable with chaos, and are more apt to leave young females pregnant and single.
Miller explains that conscientiousness differs between groups because it has evolved in the past ten thousand years during man's transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer and herder.
Because hunter-gatherer life did not require as much planning and memory for debts and duties as life in larger-scale societies with more complex divisions of labor, conscientiousness may have evolved to higher average levels only recently, and perhaps in some populations more than others. Only with the rise of activities like agriculture and animal herding would our ancestors have needed the sort of anxious obsessiveness and future-mindedness that characterize the highly conscientious.The chronology of the spread of agriculture is well known. Farming appeared first in the Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia by 9500 B.C., and over the next few thousand years spread in all directions including northwest to Europe. But because of geographic barriers in central and southern Africa, agriculture did not reach that region until 1000 BC.
Once agriculture was introduced into a region, it's likely that natural selection favored farmers who were able to accumulate wealth by deferring gratification and working hard even when there was already enough food to eat. Because sub-Saharan Africa adopted agriculture only relatively recently, there was less time for genes for high conscientiousness to be selected for.
It's long been suggested that blacks are less "future-minded" than whites (or, to put it in economic terms, blacks have a "higher time preference" than whites). By casual observation, blacks seem to focus more on their well-being in the present and the immediate future and place less emphasis on their well-being in the further future.
Recent studies have confirmed the stereotype that blacks engage in more conspicuous consumption and save less for the future than whites.
A 2008 study conducted by finance professors at the Wharton School and the University of Chicago found that blacks spend 30% more than whites of comparable income on visible goods such as fashionable clothes, jewelry, and flashy cars.
Because they spend so much of their discretionary income on bling, blacks have less money than whites to save and invest. According to Emory Law School Professor Dorothy A. Brown, blacks "tend to invest into stocks a lot less, in percentage terms, than white Americans in the same income brackets."
The inability of blacks to delay gratification and plan for the future is usually blamed on whites. For example, in 2006 the Seattle Public Schools' Equity and Race Relations Department declared that "having a 'future time orientation'" is an example of white cultural racism.
Even though in the coming years genetic studies will reveal that differences in conscientiousness among whites and blacks are partly the result of differential evolution, we can't expect the mainstream media to abandon the blank-slate model of human differences. It's up to us to educate ourselves and our loved ones about the science of human diversity and its consequences.
To get the ball rolling, here's some advice Miller provides for white middle-class suburban boys: avoid succumbing to the influences of rap and hip-hop music. Young white males may think they're displaying "coolness, attitude, and street cred" when they mimic black rap stars, but they're really advertising low conscientiousness. This will repel well-adjusted white girls, who possess an (evolved) inclination for highly conscientiousness men.
More Information:
A review of Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior and an interview with its author, evolutionary pshychology professor Geoffrey Miller, can be found at Richard Hoste's HBDBooks site.
Another popular science book released earlier this year, The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, by evolutionary anthropologists Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending, explains in more detail how time preference may have declined (among some people more than others) as a consequence of agriculture.
Both of these books have been positively reviewed in the conservative press (The 10,000 Year Explosion in the Wall Steet Journal and Spent in the Washington Times). Either of them would make a great last-minute Christmas gift!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Black Students Attack 26 Asian Students at Philadelphia High School; CBS Blames Whites
Yesterday the Associated Press posted an article about a series of interracial assaults at South Philadelphia High School. The school is 70% black and 18% Asian, and the assaults were almost all black-on-Asian. All of the 10 students suspended for the attacks are black or Asian.
While the AP article makes it clear from the start that the racial tensions at the school are between black and Asian students, the article by the local CBS affiliate assigns equal blame to white and black students for the violence. Reporter Elizabeth Hur quotes an "unidentified student" who says, "It was blacks and whites and they saw the Asians at the school, it all started with an argument." The article makes no further mention of the race of perpetrators.
South Philadelphia High School is only 6% white and has been labeled "persistently dangerous" by the state. The white students are probably being victimized just as badly as the Asian students are. Unfortunately, they just don't have an interest group like the "Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corp." looking out for them.
The mainstream media didn't pick up the AP article, and the Drudge Report, which has highlighted a number of disturbing interracial assaults committed by blacks since the inauguration of Barack Obama back in January, decided to link to the sanitized CBS article instead of the more factual AP article. Beside for people who live in the Philadelphia area, readers of pro-white blogs and forums are the only ones aware of this latest example of black violence.
While the AP article makes it clear from the start that the racial tensions at the school are between black and Asian students, the article by the local CBS affiliate assigns equal blame to white and black students for the violence. Reporter Elizabeth Hur quotes an "unidentified student" who says, "It was blacks and whites and they saw the Asians at the school, it all started with an argument." The article makes no further mention of the race of perpetrators.
South Philadelphia High School is only 6% white and has been labeled "persistently dangerous" by the state. The white students are probably being victimized just as badly as the Asian students are. Unfortunately, they just don't have an interest group like the "Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corp." looking out for them.
The mainstream media didn't pick up the AP article, and the Drudge Report, which has highlighted a number of disturbing interracial assaults committed by blacks since the inauguration of Barack Obama back in January, decided to link to the sanitized CBS article instead of the more factual AP article. Beside for people who live in the Philadelphia area, readers of pro-white blogs and forums are the only ones aware of this latest example of black violence.
The Newest Digiorno Pizza Commercial
You've probably seen the newest Digiorno pizza commercial. (Youtube link)
While a couple enjoy a conversation at a party, the host sets a Digiorno Ultimate Toppings pizza on a table.
The weight of all the ultimate toppings causes the table to fall through the floor.
Overlooking the giant hole in his floor, the host proceeds to argue with two stoned white guys in the apartment below about who is the rightful owner of the pizza. The couple looks on curiously.
As the arguing continues, the couple migrates to the host's right...
then back to his left. They're in every shot!
Realizing he won't be getting the pizza back, the host shows his frustration. The couple, who have remained calm throughout the incident, lose interest in the pizza and turn to resume their conversation.
Is it me, or is there more than just pizza this ad is trying to sell?
While a couple enjoy a conversation at a party, the host sets a Digiorno Ultimate Toppings pizza on a table.
The weight of all the ultimate toppings causes the table to fall through the floor.
Overlooking the giant hole in his floor, the host proceeds to argue with two stoned white guys in the apartment below about who is the rightful owner of the pizza. The couple looks on curiously.
As the arguing continues, the couple migrates to the host's right...
then back to his left. They're in every shot!
Realizing he won't be getting the pizza back, the host shows his frustration. The couple, who have remained calm throughout the incident, lose interest in the pizza and turn to resume their conversation.
Is it me, or is there more than just pizza this ad is trying to sell?
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Rochester, NY: Hispanic Man Who Murdered Four White People Given Standing Ovation Upon Return to Jail
While mayor Bob Duffy was answering questions from the media yesterday about the shooting of two Rochester police officers on Tuesday night [the officers are white, and the suspects are black, as if you couldn't guess], he was asked about Frank Garcia, the Hispanic man who earlier this week was convicted of murder.
Garcia killed four white people on Valentine's Day. He shot Mary Sillman, a 23-year-old nurse, as she was reporting to work at Lakeside Memorial Hospital in Brockport. He also shot Randall Norman, a passerby who came to Sillman's aid when he saw Garcia roughing her up. After murdering Sillman and Norman, Garcia drove to Canandaigua, where he murdered Christopher and Kimberly Glatz.
Garcia's motive? He had been fired from two jobs for sexual harassing Sillman and Kimberly Glatz. He got his revenge by murdering both white women (and two witnesses) on Valentine's Day.
So what did Duffy have to say about Garcia?
When Garcia was returned to the Monroe County Jail this week after being found guilty of murder, the inmates cheered and gave him a standing ovation.
Given the racial composition of the inmates at the county jail, this revelation doesn't come as a surprise to me.
Frank Garcia murdered four white people on Valentine's Day. As he was returned to jail earlier this week after being found guilty of murder, inmates cheered Garcia and gave him a standing ovation.
Garcia killed four white people on Valentine's Day. He shot Mary Sillman, a 23-year-old nurse, as she was reporting to work at Lakeside Memorial Hospital in Brockport. He also shot Randall Norman, a passerby who came to Sillman's aid when he saw Garcia roughing her up. After murdering Sillman and Norman, Garcia drove to Canandaigua, where he murdered Christopher and Kimberly Glatz.
Garcia's motive? He had been fired from two jobs for sexual harassing Sillman and Kimberly Glatz. He got his revenge by murdering both white women (and two witnesses) on Valentine's Day.
So what did Duffy have to say about Garcia?
When Garcia was returned to the Monroe County Jail this week after being found guilty of murder, the inmates cheered and gave him a standing ovation.
Given the racial composition of the inmates at the county jail, this revelation doesn't come as a surprise to me.
Frank Garcia murdered four white people on Valentine's Day. As he was returned to jail earlier this week after being found guilty of murder, inmates cheered Garcia and gave him a standing ovation.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
For Second Time This Year, a Black Child Rapist Murders Four White Police Officers
The similarities between Lovelle Mixon and Maurice Clemmons are striking.
Both men are black. Both served time in jail on gun charges. Both raped a 12-year-old girl. And both murdered four white police officers before being killed by police.
Clockwise from top left: John Hege, Daniel Sakai, Ervin Romans, Mark Dunakin. All four Oakland, CA police officers were murdered by Lovelle Mixon.
Clockwise from top left: Tina Griswold, Gregg Richards, Ronald Owens, Mark Renninger. All four Lakewood, WA police officers were murdered by Maurice Clemmons.
The question is, will the black community in Seattle hold a vigil for Clemmons and call him a hero?
Black Oakland residents hold a vigil to mourn cop killer Lovelle Mixon.
My guess is yes. Although Clemmons sustained a serious gunshot wound during his coffee shop ambush, he was able to elude capture for nearly two days with help from a network of friends and family who gave him places to stay, medical aid, rides and money. Clemmons clearly has a number of supporters in Seattle's black community.
Both men are black. Both served time in jail on gun charges. Both raped a 12-year-old girl. And both murdered four white police officers before being killed by police.
Clockwise from top left: John Hege, Daniel Sakai, Ervin Romans, Mark Dunakin. All four Oakland, CA police officers were murdered by Lovelle Mixon.
Clockwise from top left: Tina Griswold, Gregg Richards, Ronald Owens, Mark Renninger. All four Lakewood, WA police officers were murdered by Maurice Clemmons.
The question is, will the black community in Seattle hold a vigil for Clemmons and call him a hero?
Black Oakland residents hold a vigil to mourn cop killer Lovelle Mixon.
My guess is yes. Although Clemmons sustained a serious gunshot wound during his coffee shop ambush, he was able to elude capture for nearly two days with help from a network of friends and family who gave him places to stay, medical aid, rides and money. Clemmons clearly has a number of supporters in Seattle's black community.
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