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Prior to the the transatlantic slave trade and colonization, Europe was in very bad shape: diseases ( bubonic plaque and syphilis) wiping out half it's population, extensive poverty and crime, stagnant mercantile economies, lack of natural resources, and debauchery (priests raping children). The southern antebellum "CRACKER CUTURE" emanated from the old cracture culture in certain parts of North England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland - high level of violence, sexual promiscuity, high illiteracy, etc. Castration was a practice among these people which was inflicted upon Black males during slavery and Jim Crow. Syphilis and smallpox from Europe wiped out indigenous people around the world. There are many extinct Indian tribes throughout the Americas. You're a played out pseudo scientific racist wanting to use this nonsense for half baked social policies. Racism is an economic relationship between groups. It doesn't take a genius to become a millionaire that can hire nerds like you.
Hey Glenn! Tell Mr. Gates, I enjoyed him as your guest. I think he’s reasonable and makes some valid points. As an opponent of “woke,” I do see merit in some of his arguments and think we could find some common ground.
you and the good professor expressed the opinion that money spent on schools influenced IQ test scores. If that were the case, the IQ test would be invalidated wrt its primary purpose. If you question that assumption you will quickly find studies that contradict that, finding that investment in schools doesn't much affect students' problem solving ability. You have also often fallen into the fallacy that poverty causes crime. Have you ever examined that? My Appalachian county has the same median income as Harlem but we don't have nearly the problem. Being broke doesn't require gun violence. That's the result of low integrity.
I have to say to Glenn - I've been taking engineering and STEM courses on and off for 16 years. I'm in one now, a course on concrete mix design. I have taken courses with students of African descent but not one of them that I can remember was of legacy African-American heritage. I've taken courses at UC Denver, Colorado State - Fort Collins, University of Nebraska (Lincoln and Omaha), and Colorado State - Pueblo. I've sat next to folks from Sudan, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. The closest I've come to sharing a class with a American of legacy black heritage was a young man from Maryland, whose parents had immigrated from Ghana (to pursue PhD's!).
In all these years, and all of the classes, and not one legacy African-American wanted to be an engineer? What the heck is wrong with this picture? And to be clear, there have been folks of Hispanic, Turkish, Chinese, Iranian, Ukrainian, Indian, Brazilian, German, and other, descent, and men and women, so it's not that my coursework has lacked in diversity. Far from it.
Hispanic Americans, both men and women, are 50% of my courses at the moment. They're usually citizens but there is sometimes a recent immigrant or two. One young man back in 2009-2010 was from Chihuahua and recalled being in a drug cartel raid on a night club and losing a cousin to cartel violence. A young man who didn't let the trauma of the past get in the way of his future.
So I ask Glenn, and John Mac. for that matter - what is wrong with this country that folks of the legacy black population do not seek careers in science and math and engineering in numbers anything like every other demographic group?
Blacks only control and own less than 2% of the wealth in this country, which hasn't changed since the eve of the American Civil War, wherein there were 4 hundred thousand freed Black slaves and 4 million Black slaves. The original constitution was a white supremacist document excluding Africans. It codified Blacks as property like horses, hogs, chickens, or inanimate objects. Blacks could be murdered by whites without repercussions. Black slave women could be raped by white men with impunity. Thomas Jeffersin raped a 16-year-old slave girl and fathered a number of children with her. My great grandmother was brutally raped by a Scott-Irishman with impunity. Due to the 250 years of Black Chattel slavery plus 100 years of Jim Crow, African Americans fell far behind in accumulating wealth and power (several years of opportunity lost due to being restricted from being able to fully participate in capitalism). Europeans came here for free stuff. What's your excuse for lagging behind considering the 400-year white headstart program? The Native American population was almost entirely wiped out through genocide, small pox (some intentional biological warfare), syphilis, etc. Solution to fight white racism: Blacks redirecting most of their 98% spending (2 trillion dollars) from non Black owned buisneeses to Black owned buisnesses (creating a solid Black economic infrastructure and a black political bloc operatiing on quid pto quo basis for black interests). Social integration isn't measurable; it can't be deposited into the bank. Diversity is diverting money to people with unearned benefits (undocumented immigrants). Undocumented immigrants aren't in the bests of blacks, especially at the lower socioeconomic level. My late fad, a construction worker, would have had problems earning a livable wage today as a result of illegals who are payed non-union wages. Nevertheless, note the success of Asian towns, Arab towns, Mexican towns, and Jew Towns. There used to be more Black towns before desegregation: more Black owned businesses and farms. The best and brightest Black teachers were sent white schools at the start of desegregation. Black schools then received incompetent white teachers who didn't give a damn about Black kids.
I'll do do my best to tone it down - be more cognitive of the adjectives I use. James Baldwin related that a conscious Black man is always in a rage. My anecdotal fighting experience working in a very ruthless past environment (prison setting) has had an impact in me. My PTSD working in a very negative environment for 34 yesrs? I'll sort it out. I like this platform to share my perspectives.
Personally, I found some of Professor Gates’ comments on STEM and standardized testing to be slightly glib, although I certainly appreciated hearing his perspective on the matter. As Clifton Roscoe argues, you can’t have creativity without a baseline threshold of technical competency, either in music or the sciences.
As I noted in a prior comment, Black Americans have a long way to go before we can expect anything even remotely close to parity in the sciences, especially in quantitative fields such as physics. Recent data from the Brookings Institute suggests that a slightly larger percentage of Asian Americans score a 700 on the SAT math than Blacks score a 500 on the SAT math. This basically translates to a 2 SD difference in mean performance between the two groups and implies that only about 2% of Black test takers score at least above the Asian American mean on the math portion of the SAT.
In my opinion, this is the root cause of most of the group disparities we see in STEM and only when Black Americans are able to attain the same core quantitative competencies as other ethnic groups will we start to see group representation trend towards greater parity. I could be wrong here, but it seems to me that you can’t really do modern physics if you aren’t proficient at math.
When the "anti-racist black activists" say anything, the grift is afoot. Their livelihoods depend on blaming anything negative that happens to any black person as a sure sign of racism. How convenient. What excuse do non-blacks have when things do not go their way? And no one bothers to consider how the "activists" managed a level of success if the deck is so stacked against them.
Racializing everything worked horribly the first time. You'd think people would want to avoid doing that again, but it seems that race is all we talk about. Well, race and the insistence among some crazy people who argue that women are not the only humans who get pregnant.
when i try to upgrade to paid your site dies. There appears to be an input for email address, doesn't take input. There is a button below for 'upgrade', changes from red to faded red and does nothing. Fire your website support staff.
Prior to the the transatlantic slave trade and colonization, Europe was in very bad shape: diseases ( bubonic plaque and syphilis) wiping out half it's population, extensive poverty and crime, stagnant mercantile economies, lack of natural resources, and debauchery (priests raping children). The southern antebellum "CRACKER CUTURE" emanated from the old cracture culture in certain parts of North England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland - high level of violence, sexual promiscuity, high illiteracy, etc. Castration was a practice among these people which was inflicted upon Black males during slavery and Jim Crow. Syphilis and smallpox from Europe wiped out indigenous people around the world. There are many extinct Indian tribes throughout the Americas. You're a played out pseudo scientific racist wanting to use this nonsense for half baked social policies. Racism is an economic relationship between groups. It doesn't take a genius to become a millionaire that can hire nerds like you.
Hey Glenn! Tell Mr. Gates, I enjoyed him as your guest. I think he’s reasonable and makes some valid points. As an opponent of “woke,” I do see merit in some of his arguments and think we could find some common ground.
you and the good professor expressed the opinion that money spent on schools influenced IQ test scores. If that were the case, the IQ test would be invalidated wrt its primary purpose. If you question that assumption you will quickly find studies that contradict that, finding that investment in schools doesn't much affect students' problem solving ability. You have also often fallen into the fallacy that poverty causes crime. Have you ever examined that? My Appalachian county has the same median income as Harlem but we don't have nearly the problem. Being broke doesn't require gun violence. That's the result of low integrity.
I have to say to Glenn - I've been taking engineering and STEM courses on and off for 16 years. I'm in one now, a course on concrete mix design. I have taken courses with students of African descent but not one of them that I can remember was of legacy African-American heritage. I've taken courses at UC Denver, Colorado State - Fort Collins, University of Nebraska (Lincoln and Omaha), and Colorado State - Pueblo. I've sat next to folks from Sudan, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. The closest I've come to sharing a class with a American of legacy black heritage was a young man from Maryland, whose parents had immigrated from Ghana (to pursue PhD's!).
In all these years, and all of the classes, and not one legacy African-American wanted to be an engineer? What the heck is wrong with this picture? And to be clear, there have been folks of Hispanic, Turkish, Chinese, Iranian, Ukrainian, Indian, Brazilian, German, and other, descent, and men and women, so it's not that my coursework has lacked in diversity. Far from it.
Hispanic Americans, both men and women, are 50% of my courses at the moment. They're usually citizens but there is sometimes a recent immigrant or two. One young man back in 2009-2010 was from Chihuahua and recalled being in a drug cartel raid on a night club and losing a cousin to cartel violence. A young man who didn't let the trauma of the past get in the way of his future.
So I ask Glenn, and John Mac. for that matter - what is wrong with this country that folks of the legacy black population do not seek careers in science and math and engineering in numbers anything like every other demographic group?
Eric the car guy but I'm not sure what's going on w him now, and Schrodinger's Box.
Blacks only control and own less than 2% of the wealth in this country, which hasn't changed since the eve of the American Civil War, wherein there were 4 hundred thousand freed Black slaves and 4 million Black slaves. The original constitution was a white supremacist document excluding Africans. It codified Blacks as property like horses, hogs, chickens, or inanimate objects. Blacks could be murdered by whites without repercussions. Black slave women could be raped by white men with impunity. Thomas Jeffersin raped a 16-year-old slave girl and fathered a number of children with her. My great grandmother was brutally raped by a Scott-Irishman with impunity. Due to the 250 years of Black Chattel slavery plus 100 years of Jim Crow, African Americans fell far behind in accumulating wealth and power (several years of opportunity lost due to being restricted from being able to fully participate in capitalism). Europeans came here for free stuff. What's your excuse for lagging behind considering the 400-year white headstart program? The Native American population was almost entirely wiped out through genocide, small pox (some intentional biological warfare), syphilis, etc. Solution to fight white racism: Blacks redirecting most of their 98% spending (2 trillion dollars) from non Black owned buisneeses to Black owned buisnesses (creating a solid Black economic infrastructure and a black political bloc operatiing on quid pto quo basis for black interests). Social integration isn't measurable; it can't be deposited into the bank. Diversity is diverting money to people with unearned benefits (undocumented immigrants). Undocumented immigrants aren't in the bests of blacks, especially at the lower socioeconomic level. My late fad, a construction worker, would have had problems earning a livable wage today as a result of illegals who are payed non-union wages. Nevertheless, note the success of Asian towns, Arab towns, Mexican towns, and Jew Towns. There used to be more Black towns before desegregation: more Black owned businesses and farms. The best and brightest Black teachers were sent white schools at the start of desegregation. Black schools then received incompetent white teachers who didn't give a damn about Black kids.
Thanks! I am quite sane. I'm not your typical lantern yard boy. 😂🤣😅😆😁😄😃🙂
You must watch the same auto channels I do. 😀
I'll do do my best to tone it down - be more cognitive of the adjectives I use. James Baldwin related that a conscious Black man is always in a rage. My anecdotal fighting experience working in a very ruthless past environment (prison setting) has had an impact in me. My PTSD working in a very negative environment for 34 yesrs? I'll sort it out. I like this platform to share my perspectives.
How did I specifically offend Glenn Loury? Your responses are as vague and ambiguous as the U.S. constitution.
https://youtu.be/qZ7GZq2tfoE
I'm definitely not a lawn lantern boy for ultra conservatives. Lol!
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Personally, I found some of Professor Gates’ comments on STEM and standardized testing to be slightly glib, although I certainly appreciated hearing his perspective on the matter. As Clifton Roscoe argues, you can’t have creativity without a baseline threshold of technical competency, either in music or the sciences.
https://glennloury.substack.com/p/styles-of-excellence/comment/7992781
As I noted in a prior comment, Black Americans have a long way to go before we can expect anything even remotely close to parity in the sciences, especially in quantitative fields such as physics. Recent data from the Brookings Institute suggests that a slightly larger percentage of Asian Americans score a 700 on the SAT math than Blacks score a 500 on the SAT math. This basically translates to a 2 SD difference in mean performance between the two groups and implies that only about 2% of Black test takers score at least above the Asian American mean on the math portion of the SAT.
In my opinion, this is the root cause of most of the group disparities we see in STEM and only when Black Americans are able to attain the same core quantitative competencies as other ethnic groups will we start to see group representation trend towards greater parity. I could be wrong here, but it seems to me that you can’t really do modern physics if you aren’t proficient at math.
When the "anti-racist black activists" say anything, the grift is afoot. Their livelihoods depend on blaming anything negative that happens to any black person as a sure sign of racism. How convenient. What excuse do non-blacks have when things do not go their way? And no one bothers to consider how the "activists" managed a level of success if the deck is so stacked against them.
Racializing everything worked horribly the first time. You'd think people would want to avoid doing that again, but it seems that race is all we talk about. Well, race and the insistence among some crazy people who argue that women are not the only humans who get pregnant.