Wasting Time With Alex

Not gone..

I know it has been a long time since I posted anything. Between work and other obligations I have been real busy. And I have also not felt compelled to post much because it all seems to be more of the same. Then again, today after reading this article by Clarence Page, I was left baffled how he concluded it by claiming that maybe Affirmative Action has gone wrong because it only looks at skin color. See his premise, and bone of contention, seems to be that black immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean, or South America are disproportionately getting into colleges & universities and graduating in record numbers. From his own article:

In a side-by-side comparison of 2000 census data by sociologists including John R. Logan at the State University of New York, Albany, black immigrants from Africa averaged the highest educational attainment of any population group in the country, including whites and Asians.

For example, 43.8 percent of African immigrants had earned a college degree, compared with 42.5 of Asian-Americans, 28.9 percent of immigrants from Europe, Russia and Canada, and 23.1 percent of the U.S. population as a whole.

His premise and conclusion, as I read it, is that Affirmative Action has failed because local blacks still are not getting a leg up. Even worse, he blames this on these immigrant blacks and seems to imply that what needs to likely happen is discrimination against these successful immigrant blacks because of their success. Way to miss the clear message this discrepancy in educational success between native and immigrant blacks is showing Clarence. The reason that immigrant blacks are so successful is precisely because they have not been brainwashed by the AA race hucksters! How can Mr. Page fail to see or address the critical issue that our native black population, especially the poorest urban ones where education would be key in providing them a leg out of poverty, has a huge problem with education precisely because of AA. The majority of these kids are told, or shown by example, that education is a wasted of their time since it is rigged in favor of Whitey. So many fall for, or only want, get rich quick schemes, too often involving criminal activity, that lead to exactly the opposite. Socialists & liberals in government, under the auspices of helping out, have rigged the system to encourage and reward the very bad behavior that locks people into poverty- children out of wedlock and before one is done with getting an education coupled with a lack of interest in getting an education - on top of that!

Victim hood, the gospel of the AA movement, is why these kids fail. The successful black immigrants having been spared this cross, do understand the importance of an education, and consequently - and at even a higher level than Asian-Americans and Asian immigrants - take advantage of the system to do so. And yet, rather than pointing out that maybe the problem African-Americans face is a direct result of the victim hood mentality created by AA and the race hucksters, his solution is to separate and punish yet another group for the very failings of AA. Clarence here is some advice. Get rid of Affirmative Action. Tell young blacks - and for that matter every other young person because this is a universal truth - that the key to success is to get educated, avoid making children while you or unmarried or unable to support them, and to not believe you are owed anything.

That is the difference between the majority of the African immigrants & too many of our own African-American population, and why the former is doing well while the later is not. AA doesn’t need to be tweaked; it needs to be done away with. It, like so many programs enacted in haste and based on feelings rather than logic, has caused orders of magnitude more harm than good to the people it was supposed to help. But too many people make a living on reverse racism these days for that truth to apparently be acknowledged. And too many others hold political power precisely because they continue to perpetuate this failed policy. It seems AA helps out everyone but those it is supposed to help.