Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
I am endlessly informed by Liberals that the reason Black students do poorly in school is racism. The teachers, the principals, the entire educational system is against them. If that’s so, then I must ask: why do we continue to employ racists in those positions? Fire every one of them, hire new people who pledge to do better, and monitor the results. If Black students do better, then Liberals were right. If not, then the problem lies elsewhere and we can stop hearing about racism as the problem.
The wrongfully accused and ultimately fired teachers and administrators? They can learn to code.
I am endlessly informed by Liberals that the reason Black defendants are over-represented in the justice system is racism. The cops, the prosecutors and judges, the entire legal system is against them. If that’s so, then I must ask: why do we continue to employ racists in those positions? Fire every one of them, hire new people who pledge to do better, and monitor the results. If Blacks do better, then Liberals were right. If not, then the problem lies elsewhere and we can quit hearing about racism as the problem.
The wrongfully accused and ultimately fired cops, lawyers and judges? They can learn to code.
We cannot continue to blame racists for society’s problems while we continue to harbor racists in their positions of power. A wholesale makeover of society is required.
Maybe you’re thinking that’s too ambitious. Maybe you’re thinking we should start small, a pilot project so to speak, to see how it goes. I have a suggestion, lifted from Henry VI, Part 2:
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
Joe Doakes No Longer in Como Park
If progs didn’t have racism/white supremacy/toxic masculinity to deflect to, they’d have to work.
Professor Terguson: Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. I’m gonna be watching you.
It strikes me that we’ve tried a little version of this already by letting 20-30% of police officers leave employment in Minneapolis. What are the results?
What BikeBubba said. That’s exactly what they’re doing by electing Soros backed DAs, woke teachers and discouraging people from entering the law enforcement professions. They haven’t completely succeeded yet, but the fruits of their labor are already being borne out in liberal cities.
Re “blacks fail because schools are racist”: I ended my military career in a city that has a population mix of about 44% white, 42% black. Not quite a majority black city, but not far off.
Based on where we lived, the schools my kids went to were overwhelmingly majority black. In a couple of school years, one or both of my kids were the only white kids in their classes.
Most of their teachers were black. ALL of the administrators were black. The majority of the school board was black. They were taught exactly the same curricula, with the same assignments, by the same teachers as the black kids.
My wife made a telling (and sad) observation during our Son’s 5th grade graduation. There were black families who threw huge parties, a couple even rented limos to carry their kids to and from the ceremony, they made a massive deal out of their kid graduating elementary school. I mentioned to my wife how ridiculous and overboard it all was, to which she replied “this is the only graduation a lot of them will ever have.” Yikes.
As sad as it was it was true. During both of my kids’ high school graduation ceremonies, the honors graduates walked first, and then the “normal” graduates. During the first few minutes of the ceremony, you would swear that the school was majority white with quite a few asians in the mix. No…it’s just that most of the whites and virtually all of the asians graduated toward the top of their classes. When the “normal” graduates walked it became very obvious that blacks were in the majority…and that didn’t even include the droves of blacks who dropped out before graduation.
Don’t get me wrong…I’m not saying that it was the color of their skin that determined their educational success. There were blacks in the honors graduates and many of them were my kids’ friends. The issue wasn’t that they were black, the issue was that they bought into the whole “inner city thug” culture where studying in school and getting good grades was “acting white” and derided by their peers.
Both of my kids went on to college and are now married, gainfully employed and have kids of their own. My son is actually a teacher (one of the few white teachers) at the very same high school he graduated from. He was named “teacher of the year” last year.
My point is that my kids went to the same schools with the same (mostly black) teachers, same curricula and same administrators as all those black kids who ended up in prison or in the ground. I would submit that the claims that academic underachievement by blacks is the result of racism are pure bunkum. The opportunities are there if they make the choice to avail themselves of them.
By the way, one of my daughter’s black classmate friends was a guy by the name of Levi Brown. They were in the International Baccalaureate program together. His parents had no idea what the IB program was when he applied, but they supported him and he worked his butt off to maintain his grades. Had him over the house more than once…he was a really good kid who was a very hard worker.
He was also a gifted athlete and got a full ride scholarship to Penn State for football. He was the first of his family to graduate from college and he wasn’t satisfied with one degree, he earned two while he was there: Labor and Industrial Relations and Psychology – in addition to being one of the best Offensive Linemen in college football. He was drafted in the first round by the Arizona Cardinals and played O-line in the NFL for 7 years. While in the NFL he continued his education and earned two Master’s Degrees (Human Resources and Employment Relations and Financial Psychology). He lives in Texas now, but he and my daughter still keep in touch.
Again, my point is, at least in the schools around here, when lack of educational achievement is the question, racism is not the answer. I’d be surprised if that’s the true answer anywhere in the US.
SailorCurt – thanks for that. I’ve often wondered how Minnesota racist teachers enforce their prejudices. Does the teacher stand at the door of the math room saying “Hi Jimmy. find your seat, oh no Latisha, you can’t come in this class, this is for whites and Asians only, you go to gym instead.”
I’ve been missing you Joe….Thanks for your thoughts.