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A rare success story from the once fashionable era of billionaire-funded Education Reform efforts was the KIPP chain of charter schools. The point of KIPP was to offer volunteers schools that train poor students the way the military does: with an emphasis on order, character-building, and repetition in the fundamentals. KIPP never sold itself as a panacea. Instead, it was an option available for underclass kids willing to do the work to develop lower middle class habits. From my review of historian Raymond Wolters’ 2015 book The Long Crusade:
A few reformers have actually done some good, usually by undoing the work of past gurus. Perhaps the most appealing figures in The Long Crusade are Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, who founded the KIPP charter-school chain in 1994 to offer discipline, hard work, and back-to-basics schooling to the fairly small percentage of slum students serious about earning a way out of the hood. Good kids deserve some breaks in life, such as getting to go to a school without a bunch of layabouts and knuckleheads.
Some of the success of KIPP is due to reviving many of the techniques of public order and respect used by schools before the ascendance of progressive education ideology in the late 1960s.
Thus, KIPP’s slogan was, “Work hard. Be Nice.”
But, it’s 2020, so all good things must come to an end. From KIPP.org:
Retiring “Work hard. Be nice.” as KIPP’s national slogan
Wednesday, July 1, 2020After adopting a new mission and vision, we understood that Work hard. Be nice. needed to change; we needed to lift up a new national slogan. We learned many KIPP Regions had either passively stopped using it or were actively removing it from their schools. …
Feedback on the slogan falls into a few buckets:
- Working hard and being nice is not going to dismantle systemic racism. For example, in the words of student performers at KIPP School Summit: “I’ve been told I should just work hard and be nice. That it’ll pay off in the end. I’ve worked hard and I’ve been nice but the nice guys finish last.”
- It suggests being compliant and submissive. For example, in the words of an alum: “Asking us to ‘be nice’ puts the onus on kids to be quiet, be compliant, be controlled. It doesn’t actively challenge us to disrupt the systems that are trying to control us.”
- It supports the illusion of meritocracy. For example, in the words of Orpheus Williams who leads the Foundation’s equity programming: “The slogan passively supports ongoing efforts to pacify and control Black and Brown bodies in order to better condition them to be compliant and further reproduce current social norms that center whiteness and meritocracy as normal.”
Yeah, kind of … Alternatively, you might phrase it as KIPP was offering black children an opportunity to learn a culture that doesn’t lead to so goddam many mass shootings at funerals.
… We are replacing it. We are not going to rush this part. Aligned with our shared mission and vision, we know we need to lift up a slogan that better represents the tomorrow we are hoping to build, together. While the Foundation’s Marketing and Alumni Impact teams will facilitate the process, we want the new slogan to be designed by our students, alumni, and families. We will share more details on this effort when we have them.
Suggestions for a new KIPP slogan: “Goof off. Do crimes.” “Be like George Floyd.” “Ibram X. Kendi for Philosopher-King.”
Being nice leads to White Supremacy.
Or it might be the other way around, I forget.
Meanwhile..
Blacks will always disappoint.
The whole point of charter schools was to literally whip the shit out of kids who talked like this because their single moms wouldn’t or couldn’t. I’m really not exaggerating, the unstated mission of charter schools was to be a kind of adoptive disciplinarian father, which was also the reason for their relative success.
To say they’ve abandoned their mission here would be a gross understatement; like everything else converged, they’ve actually inverted their mission.
So, does Ibram X. Kendi really have a 2-digit I.Q.? Or was that just an excellent zinger? If it’s the former, I would like to reference it as often as possible.
A KIPP teacher showed up 2 years ago to pick up a book case I offered on a Free Cycle website. She was picking up free items and selling them on Craigslist to get money for her classes.
How about “Hands up, don’t shoot?”
Black kids are getting sabotaged.
It’s a damn shame.
I suggest “Thug Life” for the new motto. If it’s not that, it will be something like. And of course the motto doesn’t matter other than as a signpost on the road to total collapse of KIPP.
And we have another example of Conquest’s Second Law: Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
We want them to reproduce? News to me.
“Work hard” and “be nice” are standards. Standards are racist. (They are. Think about it.)
Holding young people to standards will not dismantle systemic racism. It is systemic racism!
Yes, just because you have, on offer, a path to success, where the black children who follow it will be able to live a nice American middle-class lifestyle, with the scaffolding for their children to follow in their success, does not mean that you will not be classified as a vicious, rabid, insane Nazi-STD-infected-purveyor-of-unendorsed-Democrat-endorsed-pedophila for pointing out that solving the problems of the underclass is actually easy.
Just check with Corvinus and Guy De Champ-Plag-Ne and they will confirm your status as an enemy-of-the-state(tm).
Years ago, as I was about to go into a rage about some FU on a job, an old timer told me…”You know Joey, it’s nice to be nice.” Yeah, the old chestnuts about “Nice guys finish last” and “It is better to be feared than loved” are great ways to go through life. Well, “hard work is its own reward” and “it’s nice to nice” are of course just slogans but they’re not the worse thing you could tell some kid. Worse would be you don’t have a chance to succeed.
Work Hard. Be Nice. = Beach diner work.
Part of the reason why “conservative” efforts at educational reform are bound to fail is that every teacher is trained at a university in an education department. Charter school teachers the same as public school ones, ditto private schools. Only private schools have some discretion in some states to hire outside education programs. These students are generally average IQ at best, and among the lowest scorers among all university degrees. And education departments are often places where scholars recycle watered down identity politics from lit and sociology. (Ed scholars publish a lot, but most of it is derivative and short, quantity trumping quality.)
Yes BLM and the Great Awokening shifted things, but I imagine before that the teachers at the ground level at these schools softened and eroded whatever reasonable principles the institutions established.
I think the new slogan needs to convey this idea:
We want our beautiful black children to grow and develop into beautiful black adults and to thrive and reproduce without having to work and for the bullets to magically stop without us actually having to stop shooting and it’s all yt’s fault if it doesn’t happen.
OR
Superman must make it right.
“Be Best, all you Blacks”
Boston public exam schools drop admissions tests.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/21/metro/school-committee-debates-dropping-admissions-tests-citys-exam-schools-one-year
Ibram X. Kendi in the Boston Globe :
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/22/opinion/transform-bostons-exam-schools-into-opportunity-schools
So… the rest of Boston’s public schools where the majority of kids go will officially be “anti-opportunity” schools? Kendi’s cool with that? Pretty callous.
Suggestions for a new KIPP slogan: “confirm your stereotype!”
Dalton has something to say about that:
“Nice Guys Finish Last”, like the man said
This is like those PSAs that tried to make smoking seem uncool to teenagers by telling them that it is playing into the hands of evil Big Tobacco. Except this is telling black kids that being smart and having “merit” is totally uncool because that’s exactly what Big Whiteness wants them to do.
I am sure that will end well. Heck, maybe that’s the message that got all the Korean kids to score so well at math.
If only we taught blacks more conspiracy theories about how the system is trying to keep them down, and hard work and good behavior isn’t going to pay off, then things will definitively improve for them. Heavens forbid they try to be more like Nigerian immigrants. All this disrupting of systems since the 60s has definitively been good for black inner cities and black families.
I know all this has already been said before, but what hasn’t already been said on this topic?
The news cycle is so fast that this story seems like months ago, but it was less than a week ago you posted the story about the San Diego Unified School District lowering its standards. This story goes along with that one.
It’s almost as if their administrators have no grounding in actual educational research. There is a theory called Habits of Mind that you want to develop in children. Having students do homework consistently is good for its own sake. It’s like athletes lifting weights even though they aren’t professional weight lifters. SDUSD wants students to pass classes even though they don’t do any of the homework until the end of the marking period, without realizing that for the vast majority of students, they won’t be able to pass without having developed those Habits of Mind throughout their school careers.
Now, if teachers could give the students the poor grades they actually deserve, it wouldn’t be an issue, but there is pressure to have your grading distribution fit a certain curve.
I don’t understand.
On Topic – this video popped up under yt recommended videos. Basically, a young gullible white woman explores the reasons why a 15 year old black male killed his white foster mother with a hatchet and then set her on fire.
I just hate people who say racist ideas, don’t you?
Some of them tell me I shouldn’t put a comma between the primary subject and verb in a sentence. So racist.
A new adaptation of Dahl’s The Witches is on HBO MAX. Vox is not happy…..
https://www.vox.com/culture/21526708/the-witches-movie-2020-review-roald-dahl-antisemitism
Meanwhile children of the elite’s are safe in their exclusive private academies, actually learning while n0n-wealthy students of all races who want to learn, but are stuffed in public schools, have yet more obstacles thrown in their way.
Coincidence? Nah, its on purpose.
My little theory Ive never seen expounded, even by Steve Sailer:
Busing ruined much of our industrial competitiveness.
Yes, you read that right. You see, white people moving into larger houses out in ring suburban counties that poor black people couldn’t afford made those same white people ask for raises at their jobs, which they got in the 1970s. Big Corporations realized they could pay much less overseas, so we ended up de-industrializing. It hurt our competitiveness. I can’t tell you how many Nashville private schools have a 1969 start date, but its got to be at least 4 or 5. People who couldn’t afford it beat feet out to the ring counties. I wonder how many millions of gallons of gasoline have been spent commuting from ring counties to urban counties since 1969? There would be a whole lot more oil still in the ground………
Private Eye magazine once ran a spoof subscription ad so readers could buy an “n” for Roald Dahl.
I do wonder if that’s intentional trolling. Reminds me of the time Korean War POWs told the Norks the middle finger was the “Hawaiian good luck sign.”
I just want to punch myself in the face for reading that.
Students should emulate Orpheus Williams and strive for a job like “Senior Director Equity Programs.”
I wonder if Orpheus’s parents were Tennessee Williams fans? He looks about 30, and that would coincide with a certain Broadway theatrical revival.
“Ibram was a bright but underachieving senior at his Northern Virginia high school. His GPA was below 3.0; his SAT scores were just above 1000. He thought he wasn’t smart enough for college, even though he had been admitted to historically black Florida A&M University.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2019/10/14/anti-racist-revelations-ibram-x-kendi/?arc404=true
I’d probably guess that score around 1999 converts to a 100-105 IQ, but it could well be 99.
Some days it’s very hard to get inside the mind of the Mensa Man.
I like his full comments better.
Grease car young man.
Fascinating tidbits and motive buried under the heavy handed analysis. “An entirely atonal Chris Rock” is presented as further sign of the racial problems of this portrayal: that the makers throw a lot of black actors in to signal diversity. Atonal is apparently problematic, because it isn’t “black”—unless the reviewer is complaining that the makers do so well not stereotyping blacks like Chris even as they demonize Jews. Chris Rock fully tonal seems to be a minstrel show caricature, to me.
Dahl was one of the most fairy tale influenced writers of the children’s genre. There’s a dark underbelly in his work similar to the original Grimms, in which peasants recorded real dangers to their traditional lives, coded as magic and the fantastic. No doubt he’s problematic to everyone today since we are told that danger from the wealthy or politicians or people of color are only signs of one’s bigotry and stupidity, rather than received wisdom and common sense.
You know an organization is screwed when it has “equity programming” (wtf that is) and EP is lead by the likes of Orpheus Williams.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/orpheusw/
Charter schools are public schools.
Many operate simply to scam tax dollars.
I’ve heard about some suburban charters with long waitlists. Admission slots go to the kids of parents who “donate” money.
Totally crappy, neighborhood schools for non-rich kids are kept open so that tax dollars can flow to exclusive schools for rich (White) kids.
Public education at its finest.
Keeping It Real?
KIPP==Killing Pale Privilege
or
KIPP==Kicking Pale People
…
I don’t know about KIPP, but the similar Success Academy in New York City has a military school feel to it. Much of what I have read, however, suggests that the boot camp stuff doesn’t bear a causative relationship to the results, but rather functions as part of a filtering system to weed out the low IQ students.
To get into and stay in Success Academy you have to be fairly smart:
— Entry is by lottery, but to be in the lottery you have to know about it and make the effort to apply. This requires a certain amount of having it together on the part of the parents, whose characteristics are heritable to the kid.
— Kids who do not follow the rules or who misbehave in any way are removed from class and undergo a one-on-one session with a teacher, and the parent is called. For anything above the trivial level, the parent must come in for a meeting. The parents usually work and have to take time off. You can see how a few of these meetings will result in the misbehaving kid being pulled out by the parent(s) and put back in public school. Presumably there is a correllation, at least weak, between misbehavior and intelligence.
— Kids who do not perform academically are removed from class and undergo a one-on-one grilling by a teacher about why they did not study enough (the blank slate fiction is observed and students who do not perform are considered to have skimped on study). A parent has to come in and is berated about how the kid is not studying enough, and why isn’t the parent enforcing study. The parent is taking days off, the kid is miserable. Result: Back to public school for these dumber kids.
— New students were originally only accepted into the lowest grade, and the classes would shrink as time went on, with only the smartest students remaining. They changed things under criticism so that there is another acceptance window at some grade level, but the harassment filtering system remains in place, and coming into a higher level grade where everyone behaves and is smart is probably very unpleasant to the less smart (so back to public school for them).
It would be interesting to have standardized testing data for all students at every grade level longitudinally to verify that this filtering system exists.
That article is fascinating: In high school Kendi came to prominence in a public speaking competition in which he resurrected MLK, and ushered a jeremiad and exhortation that blacks be better. He notes his shame and embarrassment at ever uttering such evils, since telling blacks to learn about their past, not be violent, and achieve is not the epitome of Antiracism as Kendi demands it today.
Since just under half of all American high school students enroll in college, and a 1000 is around the 40th percentile, I’d say it is highly likely Kendi is in the 90s for IQ. But given that he clearly has some verbal skills and thus may be slightly above average there, I suspect his mathematical and therefore reasoning and logic skills are far below average. People who can speak well but reason not at all are the greatest dangers to our society.
Believe it or not, Temple, where he got his PhD, still has his dissertation on their website for your perusal. So, if you want to read 367 pages on The Black Campus Movement: An Afrocentric Narrative History of the Struggle to Diversify Higher Education, 1965-1972, here you go…
https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/collection/p245801coll10/id/55936
At the time he received his PhD, his name was Ibram Henry Rogers; Kendi is the name he and his wife both took upon their marriage in 2013.
Obvious solution: have the tests made up by an exclusively black committee.
This is Steve’s 3rd post today–3 for 3!–that cries out “Separate nations!”
There is now no point whatsoever to having KIPP schools. The mooks who have taken over are committing institutional murder.
“Riot together”
Combine Steve in Greensboro with AnotherDad et voila:
“Thug Life. Keeping It Real!”
Done.
I’m sure somebody’s said it somewhere, and maybe a lot of places and times, but if there’s racist sentence structure that threatens all that vitality, then will we told to switch to ‘ax’–I won’t ever have to, becoming more racist by the day (wouldn’t go up to Madison Park and watch the ‘fun thing’ the BLMers and a drag queen were going–I had axed a young white-ally couple this; they said it wasn’t dangerous, so I took the short cut route.) I don’t know if I’ve ever heard, long before this intense version of all this shit has come to be, of anyone correcting people (and there are plenty of low-class whites who say it–greys, I guess) who say it in English classes. I’m not a schoolteacher but I bet some have run into this. Surely, there must be many who’ve corrected it. If it comes from casual commerce at a Rite-Aid, etc., I won’t correct it, so I don’t personally ever have to, and wouldn’t anyway in a more or less innocuous encounter–I’ve done enough mission work.
So will the work ask be considered anti-white enough to be suppressed?
If he does, Jimbo, you’re going to need to start working harder…
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/07/how-get-rich-calling-americans-racist-daniel-greenfield/
https://peopleai.com/fame/identities/ibram-x-kendi
How long until Roald Dahl is canceled? Sure he was a WWII fighter ace and helped invent a medical device that saved the lives of 3,000 children. And kids love his books.
But still …
It’s not that much of a loss. Education Realist has written some superb stuff exposing KIPP for juking it’s stats and stealing the best blacks/hispanics from low-ability public schools.
My favorite is “White kids don’t do KIPP.”
https://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/parents-and-schools/
“ Atonal is apparently problematic, because it isn’t “black” “
I dunno. I’ve seen the trailer and you can tell the narrator is Chris Rock – and black — in about two words. “Atonal” is just some stupid reviewer trying to sound smart.
The trailer struck me as “they made it into another anti white screed.” Now that I know it’s anti-Semitic I may actually watch it.
I’m sure it’s historically happened before…
How about:
KIPP
Killing Indiscriminately (of) Privileged People?
One suggestion:
Kindly
Invert
Pedagogical
Practices
Is there anything any man could do that would make himself cancel-proof?
Kendi in that article also writes:
It would be interesting to see how well Kendi’s child would do on the exams after lots of test-prep. I seriously doubt that she’d be competitive with the smart kids.
Kendi:
Blacks do plenty of test-prep, though not as intensively as the Asians.
The SAT, Test Prep, Income and Race
https://marginalrevolution.com/?s=Test+prep
I don’t think that Kendi is the least bit bothered by facts that conflict with his claims.
Jews have reptile hands and feet?
A *German* accent is antisemitic?
They’re reaching. They’re really reaching.
YOU, YOU are abhorrent.
… and, worst of all, if they don’t vote for Bidet … they ain’t black.
“Ibrahim (‘s) test scores were just above 1000…. He thought he wasn’t smart enough for college, even though he had been admitted to historically black…”
So in other words, yeah, in fact he wasn’t smart enough for college. Well, smart enough for Clown College, but not for real college.
Better yet, ass.
As in “ass”-constructions. As in Cardi’s “wet-ass kittycat”.
If someone said that to me, I’d slap him.
Though, it’s probably better than hearing, “Say, Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?” or “Have you ever seen an grown man naked?”
They’re implying that working hard and being nice only suits future burger flippers. Not revolutionaries. So “beach diner work” is an apt anagram, isn’t it?
Is this the new catch-all slogan / excuse that people are going to use when they want get out of work, or get someone else into it?
“I know you wanted an X-box for Christmas, son (daughter, other), but that’s not going to dismantle systemic racism.”
“I know you expected me to install the more expensive vinyl siding that you paid me to install, but that’s not going to dismantle systemic racism.”
“For every Frappuccino you buy, Starbucks will donate 10 cents to dismantle systemic racism.”
OT: Yale University demands that the firms managing their endowment diversify their staff.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/yales-david-swensen-puts-money-managers-on-notice-about-diversity-11603450800
And, Paul Krugman goes full Otter:
He has been, for lack of a better tern, soft-cancelled. It’s almost as if those cancelling him want to do it relatively quietly, to avoid a massive mainstream backlash.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/nov/06/royal-mint-roald-dahl-coin-antisemitic-views
Be a black leftie.
The email shows that “Democracy” has reached terminal dogma status. It’s like “Gluten Free”.
https://community.expensify.com/discussion/7632/protect-democracy-vote-for-biden
Remember kids: Keep it clean! Too much CNN is bad for you.
I was asking the question about ASK and AX specifically, not talking about something totally different, which is vernacular and already accepted among whites, whether the ‘ass-end of nowhere’ or whatever. AX is about the moist disagreeable, incorrigible mispronunciation.
So somebody that isn’t so fucking ass-dumb, do let me know if you’ve heard one is too *Pro-White* if one has the gall to say ASK. That would seem to be one of the last things to totally blackface all the white allies at very least, so I gather, if with nothing but a butt-ass response, we don’t know yet or nobody’s heard if we are still allowed to say ASK.
Thanks.
I wonder if cancelling Roald Dahl would mean cancelling Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper–quite the triumvirate whirring around The Fountainhead (the movie), which is totally pro-quality and precision and anti-pickaninny and well-constructed, not to mention originated by Ayn Rand, never a favourite of Angela Davis. Neal had an abortion by Cooper and 5 children by Dahl. In the film, she says to the architect (Cooper): “It’s a great building”. BLM never heard anything like that.
Maybe we can crowdfund a isteve reader to read it and pull out the highlights..?
I used to try to be nice but now just shoot for superficially pleasant. What more does anyone want?
Cut his dick off and dress like a woman.
My fairly founded fear is that all organizations, companies, government agencies will soon have equity programming. I know Trump is somewhat holding the line now. I guess this is yet another reason to vote for the buffoon. Which he is, but he’s a buffoon for the right side. Anyone who says Biden is not a buffoon has not been paying attention.
Well the correlation would be between misbehavior and low intelligence, despite misunderstood geniuses claiming otherwise.
Having skimmed the extensive excerpt you re-posted, and having skimmed the original, I can say that I wouldn’t take this Aja Romano character’s word for anything.
“… perhaps this movie needed to hire a culture critic as a consultant in order to save it from itself.”
Aja Romano, Vox
I have no doubt that the suits at HBO did indeed have a diversity commissar rule on the script, as on every script, which is why the movie was blackified.
So, the commissars ruined the story, yet Aja Romano is still complaining? You got the world you wanted, whatever you are, so what is your complaint?
We need to revive a saying from the 1960s—“People who won’t take ‘yes’ for an answer.”
How about, “Because you just can’t help your damned selves” ?
(((Democracy))) in 2020 is defined as inherently good for the Jews. Anything that’s bad for them is undemocratic.
Keep it real. Snarl at whites.
He can string together complete sentences using standard grammar. That’s not really the same as “having verbal skills.”
As for MLK, Kendi is fulfilling his vision now. The “content of their character” thing was a ruse meant to deceive well-meaning, gullible whites. And it worked.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BerniceKing/status/1299340664409395202
They never wanted to be judged by their character.
Roald Dahl wasn’t nearly anti-Semitic enough. He allowed himself to be used as a sex toy for an American high society slut Clare Booth Luce, who was in an open marriage with the media mega-magnate Henry Luce, in order to win her (and thus Henry) over to the (((British))) position towards Germany.
Her many other lovers included JFK’s dad and Winston Churchill’s son Randolph.
Or
“Work shambolically, be niggardly.”
‘Do diddly, be bad’
‘Mug hard, get loot’
‘Work woke, be narcissistic’
‘Arbeit macht white’
Yep, the kipp.org website has many pictures of the POCs and white libtards who run the place. Not surprisingly, no asians!
Let’s consider Expensify the ‘Spoils of War.’
Yup. Fairy tales tell you not to talk to strangers, not to go off in the woods by yourself, not to approach large animals like wolves, and not to be nasty to even the town idiot, all useful things for a European peasant’s kid.
Danger from politicians and the wealthy, though? (Agree on POC.) Isn’t that what they’re always talking about? Sure they’re always Republican politicians and rich people, of course…
I doubt that MLK was intentionally perpetuating a ruse when he said it. He said it because it sounded good, without worrying about what a reasonable operational meaning might be. But he never would have opposed preferences or reparations for blacks and would have bullshitted to explain why there was no conflict between that and the “content of their character” thing.
I think the right term for the “content of their character” thing is “rhetorical flourish”.
I’d suggest stringing together complete sentences with accurate grammar _is_ evidence of some verbal skill. I teach at the college level, at a state school where the average admission scores are higher than Kendi’s. Unless he has an editor or ghost writer, he’s not bad—better than some black preachers or rappers who use big words but do so incorrectly. At any rate my main point was, say he has a 110 equivalent with verbal proficiency, but an 80 in math-logic-reasoning. That’s more terrifying to me than someone in the 90s across the board.
Totally random BUT…
In my highschool there was a HUGE cheating scandal with Asians…it was Government and Econ…
It was so bad that the Asians were put in front of a tribunal…I don’t know many details cuz they kept it super hush hush
The Asians had all the previous homeworks from older siblings and were just passing them around on a hard disc
No whites were involved. In fact, I remember being shocked because it was my ‘closest friends’ who had the hard disc
The whites and more honest Asians would all get together on the morning that Econ assignment was due and do a Giant 7 am Answer Session where we would all make sure our answers were 100% correct…but in order to partake, you had to make sure You did The Homework. Then we would just all lay our homeworks down and make sure everyone got 100% on their HOmework Grade Assignment as Homework was part of the grade.
It seemed fair, as no one wants to have their overall grade lowered because of genuine learning errors via homework.
And it was fair because I don’t remember anyone NOT doing their homework before the struggle session.
Anyways…maybe dropping Homework Grades and intermittent testing is due to Teacher Laziness at having to Make Up Different Tests Each Year (especially if you gave a weekly quiz…maybe teachers are just too lazy to make up a different weekly quiz year after year…I kinda get that but that’s what you are being paid for)
But if all the Asians are swapping homework…and Asians are getting 100% perfect homework score grades and 100% on weekly quizes recycled from last year…yet hispanics, whites and minorities are taking and doing the homework ‘Fresh’ Yeah…I could see a massive problem
How about “Book Learning Matters” ???
Why not Thug Academy. Teach real skills in demand. Pimping. Ho. Drug dealing. Street robber y. Home invasions. Things of real use and demand in the black community.
Might as well be “Joggers gonna jog”, or “Layabout, Chimp Out”.
They gist seems to be that Western Civilization is a White thing, and being anti-racism requires a lack of civility. The negro has long been accused of generally being uncivilizable savages, and Kendi and many others now agree. Working hard and being “nice” are what White people do. Africa wins again.
Please note that some God-awful “poet” won Americas Got Talent this year–young black kid shouting at the audience–we had to turn him off each time he “performed”—hard to believe the ballots weren’t manipulated for him to win–he was really just dreadful.
Slightly off topic:
Black lives matter, except in Lagos Nigeria. Dozens killed, government silent.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/lagos-imposes-indefinite-curfew-curb-nigeria-protests-police-deploy-anti-n1244030
It seems the foster mother was black, but no less saintly for that.
Pseudo*-journalist and Whiskey-vindicator Jennifer Toth writes about Good Boy Who Dindu Nuffin, Johnnie Jordan, who did murder his foster mother in cold blood for no discernible reason despite liking her. Although he is a murderer, Jennifer grants her subject’s every premise (and with the foster parents dead and gone, who is there to gainsay him?). The then 30-to-35-year-old and apparently childless Jennifer spent weeks at a time for five years visiting the then 16-to-21-year-old Johnnie and still talks with him at least weekly even though the book is done, which is to say, more time than a lot women spend with their boyfriends and possibly more time than Jennifer spent with her husband. “Why did you write the book?” asks the interviewer, perhaps sensing the obvious. “That’s a difficult question to answer,” evades Jennifer. I’ll bet it is.
The publication of Jennifer’s book causes 42-year-old single mother of two and Whiskey-vindicator Pamela Smith to get in touch and fall in love with Johnnie. She moves her family from California to Toledo Ohio to be close to “the love of her life”. She also makes the http://www.supportjohnnie.com website to spring him from jail and make it harder convict guys like him. Also, she’s got needs.
Well, at least someone’s explained it to her. Of course, it doesn’t apply in her case.
Maybe it’s a bad idea to involve your children with a convicted murderer?
Ho-kaaay.
Anyhow, sometime around 2006, or shortly after this Toledo Blade story came out, the supportjohnnie website went offline. Did the bloom come off the Johnnie+Pamela rose, or did Johnnie just move on? The Toledo Blade story was written by Robin Erb, who describes her reporting as “the intersection of public policy and health”, yet her most prominent stories all seem to be about murders and sex.
tldr: Pulling at the thread of a random video unravels a trail of middle aged white women indulging in jungle fever, which through the magic of the Fake News Machine gets laundered into human interest stories about unjust conviction and the hope of prison reform.
The rot goes deep and has been festering a long time.
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* Years ago I happened to read—or tried to read—her first (1993) book, The Mole People, about the supposedly thousands of homeless people living in subterranean cities beneath Manhattan, in a sort updated liberal’s version of the Hollow Earth-type science fiction, which at the time sparked a minor moral panic about the poor neglected Troglodyte-Americans. (This was of course before the modern view came into vogue that dispossessed white-ish people living underground in fear and agony was a good thing.) Going through the book, it quickly became apparent to me the book was, at best, confabulations, even while the respectable press treated her to glowing reviews interspersed with virtue-signalling cries to “do something” about people who mostly didn’t exist. (According to Wiki, Jennifer Toth is a “British journalist” but Toth is a Hungarian name, so she might descend from 1933-ish émigrés.)
Here’s a trailer from the Roeg-Henson 1990 original movie. Lower vibrancy quotient.
Saw The Witches when I was ten when it first came out. It really creeped me out. I recently re-watched some clips online, and the practical makeup effects still hold up. Acting-wise, Angelica Huston is the MVP:
“the illusion of meritocracy”
Irrelevanf. One can work hard and be nice without possessing any merit of which to speak. Outside the limited merit of being hard-working and nice.
Who among as has not worked hard at something knowing all th while that you sucked at it?
A vote against democracy, you say? Hmm.
Wait a minute. [Does doubletake.] Vote…democracy. Don’t those two have something to do with eachother?
Kill whitey. Also, kill whitey.
I’ve always thought the Gringots in the Harry Potter movies are caricatures of Jews: short people with big noses, ugly, balding, run the banks, love money and treasures, cater to both sides to maximize profit just like Jews traditionally in warring Europe prior to WWII. Maybe that’s why JK Rowlings is being raked over the coals these days, i.e. it ain’t about the trannies, it’s payback time for the Gringots.
wait until full war on Pedos! Many people, here, on Unz, need to wake up. Digital warriors of no regional bounds, hate pedos and will go after them. So many of you are on their systems. Good Bye, hahaaaa. Pedos need to be arrested and, well, destroyed. I would like public hangings or burning pedos at the stake… that’s my Halloween spirit. Diddling with kids is wrong. F*cking and torturing kids is wrong.
All the “good” schools at every level “steal” the best students of all races from lesser schools. That’s the main thing that makes them “good” or at least “not bad”.
Hasn’t that been the general takeaway of all these realism-tilted discussions of 5 decades of education reform that never closes “the gaps” ?
However some research shows that there is at least a modest effect of KIPP’s efforts at least in terms of college enrollment with randomized applicants to KIPP middle schools: 48% college admission for those in KIPP middle-school and 41% for those not). i’ll hasten to add i think is a poor choice of metric for this demographic. A solid military or trades job (or even staying out of jail or age at first child) would be at least as good to look at as measures of success.
https://www.educationnext.org/new-research-kipp-charter-middle-schools-can-improve-early-college-outcomes/
Dunno. M-to-F trans types are a spiteful bunch…..
Assuming that Out of Africa hypothesis is true, my corollary is that there was a good reason we got the hell out of Africa. And just when we thought we were out, we pull ourselves back in.
Not specifically in 2020. Absolutely all Catholic and even Agnostic French moralists have been stating what you say since the Revolution of 1789 and before : democracy is any form of government, dictatorial or otherwise, that serves Jews over non-Jews, and tyranny is any form of government threatening to confiscate Jewish property. Humanism is any philosophy that postulates the superiority of the synagogue over the Church.
There were people arguing that, actually. I think she looked generally liberal enough nobody took that seriously. But now, who knows?
“Content of their character” may have been akin to “From each according to his ability” — a kind of end state of a social transformation, but not necessarily the condition during the “dictatorship of the proletariat” phase?
Yes BLM and the Great Awokening shifted things, but I imagine before that the teachers at the ground level at these schools softened and eroded whatever reasonable principles the institutions established.
Indeed. ‘Personnel is policy’ is as close to an iron law as there is.
I was about to mock this characterization; this portrayal of a grown, mentally competent, independent, highly accomplished man as the mere sex toy of a woman; as her pitiful victim. But then I considered, thanks to your subtle highlighting of the fact, that Jews apparently were involved. And I remembered just how wily, lubricious and ruthless we Jews excel in being…
No, there’s nothing less-than-rational or reasonable in effectively denying the agency of as much as 90+ % of a general population, maintaining that they are but hapless, benighted pawns manipulated to act against their own interests and desires by the roughly 2-3% of the population. Repeatedly, continually, for millennia. Nor, of course, could such a narrative ever reasonably be seen as in any way patronizing, insulting or demeaning to the demographic that comprises the overwhelming majority. Only a rabid Jew or hopeless boomer cuck could ever think otherwise.