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Education Equality Project, January 16, 2009

The Education Equality Project Hosts the King Day Rally in Washington, DC
Monday, January 19th

On the eve of President Barack Obama’s inauguration, EEP will host a King Day Rally in Washington, DC to reflect on Dr. King’s dream. As we inaugurate the United State’s first African-American president, there is no more important time to address the shameful achievement gap that persists between the races in our country.

We cannot ignore the achievement gap and the work that remains to fulfill Dr. King’s dream. EEP considers fixing the nation’s schools to be the critical civil rights challenge of our time. This event will raise awareness nationally and build support for our urgent mission.

EEP co-founders Reverend Al Sharpton and New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein invite supporters to join them at the King Day Rally on Monday, January 19th at 12:30pm in Washington, DC. The event will be held at Cardozo High School, located at 1300 Clifton Street, NW in Columbia Heights. (A short walk from the Columbia Heights metro.) Doors open at 10am and the National Action Network will have a pre-rally at 11am.

Reverend Sharpton and Chancellor Klein will lead the rally and will be joined by other civil rights, government, and education leaders including Mayors Booker (Newark) and Johnson (Sacramento), Martin Luther King III, Governor Romer, US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, Dr. Michael Lomax (President, United Negro College Fund), Geoffrey Canada (President and Chief Executive Officer for Harlem Children’s Zone), and Senator McCain.

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(Posted on January 16, 2009)

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1 — Question Diversity wrote at 6:53 PM on January 16:

What jumps out at me is John McCain’s participation. There is a theory that Obama’s choice of Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano for HLS isn’t as much for her border “expertise,” or that she was an early BHO supporter over HRC, but for that BHO is rewarding McCain for forfeiting the election, by taking out his most serious opposition for Senate re-election. I expect McCain to change parties if the Dems wind up with 59 in the Senate.

As for the subject matter, what are they all proposing to do that hasn’t been done already?

2 — ice wrote at 6:56 PM on January 16:

“Fixing the schools will fix the achievement gap.”

That’s really funny. They continue on with let’s pretend very successfully, keeping black low I.Q. and inability a taboo subject.

It’s one of the most humorous topics on the race issue, right along with the claim that having a half-black president will give black men the impetus they need to graduate from college, then go on to complete their doctorates.

Real life is truly stranger than fiction.

3 — Reader-1 wrote at 7:34 PM on January 16:


Watch out. They think they can spend their way out of the nation’s economic problems. You can bet that there will be plenty of proposals to “spend away” the achievement gap too. “Our kids need a bailout!”

4 — Anonymous wrote at 7:55 PM on January 16:

Instead of constantly pouring my tax dollars into a bottomless pit decade after decade, in a hopeless endeavor to “fix” the racial achievement gap, perhaps the government should simply create a “correction multiple” of 30 to 35 percent and add it to the scores of Blacks throughout all levels of academia. It’s the only way balance will be achieved.

Once again, the facts.

5 — Memphomaniacs wrote at 7:57 PM on January 16:

No amount of Federal funding will enable cotton pickers to become scholars. No amount of tutoring. No amount of visual aids. No amount of teacher pay. No matter what the class size. No matter how many books they have in the school library. No amount of bright colored construction paper or marker pens, will make poets out of stevedores. History has already proven that fact.

6 — Tim in Indiana wrote at 8:28 PM on January 16:

As we inaugurate the United State’s first African-American president, there is no more important time to address the shameful achievement gap that persists between the races in our country.

Shame on you, Mother Nature, for this shocking achievement gap between the races! How dare you make the races different in the name of “diversity?” Don’t you know that diversity must be of the most superficial nature only, say in the manner of skin color or mere culture? To make any real diversity in capacity or natural abilities cannot be allowed! After all, we must “celebrate” diversity while at the same time denying it exists!

7 — Anonymous wrote at 9:10 PM on January 16:

“address the shameful achievement gap that persists between the races in our country”

What exactly is “shameful” about this? A canary isn’t as strong as a goose, but there is nothing “shameful” about recognizing that. A collie is considered less intelligent than a poodle, but it hardly stands to reason that this is a “shameful” condition.

It’s biological reality, and nothing to be ashamed of. About the only thing that IS shameful is assuming everyone is equally able in all respects because that in turn means that you turned off your brain.

8 — White is Beautiful Robert wrote at 9:18 PM on January 16:

E.D.U.C.A.T.I.O.N. E.Q.U.A.L.I.T.Y. P.R.O.J.E.C.T. = “Egalitarians Don’t Understand Chasm Accentuating The I.Q.s, Obviously Nullifying Egalitarianism’s Questionable, Untrue Assumptions All Leftists Idiotically Yield -Purposefully Robbing Or ‘Jacking’ educated Caucasians Today”

9 — Anonymous wrote at 11:37 PM on January 16:

After all, we must “celebrate” diversity, while at the same time denying it exists!
Tim in Indiana


Chuckle. Ain’t that the truth?

10 — exkcresident wrote at 12:06 AM on January 17:

Yes! Question Diversity. I was bound and determined to vote for Pat Buchanan in 2000, but I was suckered into voting for Bush at the last second by my conservative family members and friends, especially since the poll numbers were so close, as it turned out, they were! I voted for Chuck Baldwin in 2008. This election seems like a replay of 1996, where the born loser fought tooth and nail during the primary but was a whipped puppy in the general election. But Dole, at least, resigned from the US Senate, whereas McCain is still around. Any theories?

11 — Realist in Atlanta wrote at 6:10 AM on January 17:

If the quality of a school is measured by academic achievement, the only way to improve a school is to increase the quality of the students. No amount of highly paid, high quality teachers will results in success at teaching nuclear physics to below average students. Its just not going to happen.

It takes an average IQ of around 100 to graduate from high school and fully comprehend the subject matter. IQ’s over 120 will self teach even in the absense of teachers or schools. IQ’s over 110 will learn in even the poorest schools with inadequate teachers. IQ’s less than 90 will not be successful in academics even with the best schools and the finest teachers.

It doesn’t make me feel bad to realize that at least half of all white people in this country are not college material. All people black, white or otherwise need to understand their strengths and weaknesses and invest their efforts in something that will maximize the former and minimize the latter in order to give them the best chance at succeeding in life. We need to reinstitute IQ tests.

- Realist in Atlanta

12 — Kwaku Minta wrote at 6:42 AM on January 17:

“No amount of Federal funding will enable cotton pickers to become scholars. No amount of tutoring. No amount of visual aids. No amount of teacher pay. No matter what the class size. No matter how many books they have in the school library. No amount of bright colored construction paper or marker pens, will make poets out of stevedores. History has already proven that fact.”

Posted by Memphomaniacs at 7:57 PM on January 16


I think that you’re underestimating blacks here. Sure, in general, blacks and whites may never be equal as far as mental/intellectual potential goes. But to simply write off blacks as overall “inferior” by certain standards is premature in my opinion. There were (and still are) a handful of blacks whose intellectual prowess are on par with whites such as past great black thinkers like Booker T. Washington, Langston Hughes, and Marcus Garvey, to their contemporaries like Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, and, my personal favorite, Mrs. Elizabeth Wright of Issues & Views. Of course, these blacks are the exception to the rule as this doesn’t change the fact that blacks, as a group, lag behind other races academically and intellectually. But history has also shown that even the “lowest” of races have the potential to rise to some degree of greatness.

Besides, if you want to talk about which race is better, there’s only one objective way to determine the superiority of one racial/ethnic group over another; and that’s through Nature’s test: The Survival of the Fittest. The strong survive and the weak perish. From what I’ve seen so far, it is whites who are failing Nature’s test and declining fast. Unless white people shape up and soon, they will eventually go the way of the dinosaurs.

13 — Allan wrote at 12:12 PM on January 17:

The trouble with Black education is the homes from which the children come rather than the schools. White children from poor homes rarely do well either. All children are, to some extent, home schooled, and when the parents don’t do their part, the children will not learn.

Back in the sixties I taught for two years in an all-Black school on the Westside of Chicago. The vice-principal, a middle-aged Black women would tell every parent who came to register a child, “You see to it that your child has ten hours of sleep and a good breakfast before he comes to school, and we won’t be able to stop him from learning.” She once told us that she knew most of the parents would totally ignore her words, but she could not stop saying them.

Most of the problems in Black schools are caused by Black homes; most of the problems in White schools are carsed by White homes; and the schools cannot do anything about it until the parents clean up their act.

14 — RHG wrote at 12:46 PM on January 17:

Yep, just give the “Revrum” Al and his race-hucksters at the EEP (another silly front group for his favorite “charity”, himself) access to tax dollars and it will fix all the problems of blacks in public schools.

15 — Memphomaniac wrote at 2:01 PM on January 17:

“I think that you’re underestimating blacks here.”

Posted by Kwaku Minta at 6:42 AM on January 17


DEAR SIR: YOU DID NOT READ MY POST. I NEVER MENTIONED “BLACKS”.

But to directly address your post….just as people are not equal, nor are they uniform. What we should celebrate is the infinite human variety.

Education has two basic purposes:

To identify those people who would most benefit from additional learning, because of their capacity to think, reason, and remember. These minds should be cultivated to a practical extent.

Make a sincere effort to provide everyone with a basic (minimum) understanding and skill set, which will enable the learner to be a good citizen, able to support and care for themselves (and their family). That skill set would include basic math, English reading and conversation, and socialization to the greater society.

We don’t actually expect much….but it is too much for some of our citizens…..and still we manage to produce Nobel prize winners.

16 — MikeH wrote at 2:21 PM on January 17:

There is absolutely nothing they can do about school desegregation. The fact is whites today are much more aware than they were in the 60’s as to what a large percetage of blacks in school means to both the safety and education of their children. In the 60’s and 70’s many naively went along with integration and bussing. No Child Left Behind was the final nail in the coffin of the public trusting government to make the right decisions on educating their kids. Today folks will just move or take up home schooling before they put up with any more fools experimenting with their kids. School integration is as they say “history”.

17 — Whiteplight wrote at 4:15 PM on January 17:

“Besides, if you want to talk about which race is better, there’s only one objective way to determine the superiority of one racial/ethnic group over another; and that’s through Nature’s test: The Survival of the Fittest. The strong survive and the weak perish. From what I’ve seen so far, it is whites who are failing Nature’s test and declining fast. Unless white people shape up and soon, they will eventually go the way of the dinosaurs.”

Posted by Kwaku Minta at 6:42 AM on January 17

> You are wrong here - if Whites are declining, it is not natural, it is political and artificial, a man made thing. But stop for a moment and consider what things will be like when Whties no longer manage the world. Imagine the world running like South Africa, Zimbabwe, the Congo, Nigeria, or any African nation you might pick, including Kenya, that is right now engaged in riots between one political faction against another.

Blacks everywhere have been being artificially supported by Western White nations for as long as we have records. They were found living in the Stone age and can hardly be said to be much beyond that today, when it comes to managing themselves. If Darwin’s law was in effect, Blacks would be nearly extinct now. I wish we would stop helping and “uplifting” people who are clearly not fit to live in a civilized world.

18 — Michael C. Scott wrote at 5:33 PM on January 17:

The United States already spends more per student on public education than any other nation on Earth. The miserable schools in the US can’t be “fixed” because they already are. They were intended to be this way by the people who created the Department of Education.

19 — BonBon wrote at 6:15 PM on January 17:

“…From what I’ve seen so far, it is whites who are failing Nature’s test and declining fast…”

Whites are not declining because of Nature. Nature is what made Whites what they are—creative, innovative, curious, industrious.
The few who were able to survive ice ages, famines, plagues, hostile attacks, and long dark winters were more intelligent more organized, better able to plan for the future and survive extreme weather conditions in the northern latitudes. We are a unique people whose talents have built the greatest, freest civilizations EVER created on the face of the earth.

What has led to our decline is a hostile, anti-White government, media and academia that forcefully suppress Whites in favor every other ethnic/racial group. Whites are punished harshly through specious AA, set-aside programs, quotas and satanic taxes. Whites are denied university admissions, scholarships, promotions, job placements in the name of ‘righting past injustices’ and ‘diversity.’ This is not random; it is by design—a design to weaken us, dilute our numbers, destroy our neighborhoods, destroy what we have created, destroy our spirits. And it’s working.

If we resist or complain we are openly called Nazis and racists and put ourselves, our careers and our loved ones at great risk.

This only pertains to Whites as other ethnic/racial groups freely debase, impugn, mock and scorn Whites—and in fact are often encouraged to do this.

http://www.amren.com/features/anti-white/hate_speech.html

Do you see what we are up against? As the US becomes increasingly non- and anti-White why would anyone want to raise children in such an environment?

Nature has nothing to do with our demise.

Bon

20 — Anonymous wrote at 7:35 PM on January 17:

“But Dole, at least, resigned from the US Senate, whereas McCain is still around. Any theories?”

McCain is a Leftist hack and a traitor to the nation.

BTW, the Republican Party has been doomed for years. They are now in direct competition with the Democrats in promoting and enforcing multiculturalism and diversity.

I am a strongly Conservative, heterosexual White man, but the Republican Party no longer represents me. It is no longer comprised of traditional Conservatives. I am deeply ashamed I supported them and contributed money to them for so many years. I will never make that mistake again. They can have the Black and Brown votes, but they won’t have mine or my campaign contributions ever again.

Like many of you, I voted for Chuck Baldwin this time. He was not an ideal candidate, but he was the candidate I identified with the most.

The vast majority of Whites do not know who Chuck Baldwin is. America is purely “D” or “R”.

21 — SeenItAllBefore wrote at 10:51 PM on January 17:

“The strong survive and the weak perish. From what I’ve seen so far, it is whites who are failing Nature’s test and declining fast.”

You may be right. Let’s put it to the test, by withdrawing all of our financial & medical help to Africa. Let’s see how they manage their various problems (disease, corruption, war, etc) w/o a single penny of white aid.

Maybe they’ll do brilliantly. Either way, we’ll know, won’t we?

22 — Jill wrote at 7:34 AM on January 18:

The trouble with Black education is the homes from which the children come rather than the schools. White children from poor homes rarely do well either…

Posted by Allan at 12:12 PM on January 17


While home environment and parenting is important to a child’s education, it’s incorrect that poor whites are as educationally doomed as blacks. Poor white students still outscore middle-class blacks, and usually outscore wealthy blacks.

No Child Left Behind’s emphasis on public release of racial test results is making the inequality of the races impossible to hide. Even California had to publicly admit that blacks score worse than whites regardless of income: http://www.vdare.com/sailer/071118_oconnell.htm

Yes, black parenting styles vs white parenting styles are partially to blame, but race creates behavior as well as IQ. Cultures are created by races.

23 — Anonymous wrote at 2:08 PM on January 18:

Poor parenting must be fixed. Then DNA must be fixed. Civil rights fascists will never understand the issue or fix anything since they labor under the faulty premise that “racism” is to blame.
As an aside, I invite everyone to put the word “racism” in quotation marks when you write it. The word is being rendered meaningless through overuse and misuse as time goes on. Putting the word in quotes will help this process, which is important since the word is currently used to stifle free speech, to extort, and to intimidate. Stand your ground and don’t allow this asinine word to have any effect on you.

24 — Anonymous wrote at 4:27 PM on January 18:

Just wondering if there are adequate techical schools available to blacks in urban areas. Many of these kids would benefit from good trade schools rather than high schools that are not suitable to their temperment. They would probably find it more interesting to have a real hands on learning experience than just the academic stuff. At least when they graduate from school they will have some kind of marketable skill.

25 — Bobby wrote at 7:20 PM on January 18:

“Fixing the schools will fix the achievement gap.”

This long held belief of some American educrats is not true. If they were honest, they’d admit that their own experience proves it to be untrue. None of the great educators of the past or present believe(d) it. It is the learner,the student,that is central,to the learning process,not the school. Here is a belief from someone who helped bring in the modern world, a person that knew a little about how knowledge is acquired and the nature of learning,

You cannot teach people anything; you can only help them find it within themeselves. Galileo,1564-1642.

P.S. Or if you prefer the lighter side of the argument, “I never let schooling interfre with my education”. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) 1835-1910

26 — q wrote at 8:59 PM on January 18:

“We cannot ignore the achievement gap and the work that remains to fulfill Dr. King’s dream.”

What about the gap between blacks and Hispanics? And Asians? And Middle Easterners? And Indians and Pakis? And Southeast Asians?

Why isn’t it a concern of blacks to narrow the gap between other races besides whites?

I mean ALL these people have higher group average I.Q.’s and outperform blacks everywhere. So why wouldn’t it be to black advantage to try to set their sights just a bit lower, incrementally, one group at a time?

For example, mestizos are closest to them in I.Q. Why not work toward catching up with them before worrying about whitey?

It doesn’t make sense to me.

Unless of course they won’t mention they’re behind all these groups because it will draw attention to the fact they’re in last place behind everybody and they won’t be able to pretend their failure is due to white oppression and racism.

27 — Rrc wrote at 2:24 AM on January 19:

Why is it that whites who frequent this website feel threatened by some supposed extinction of the white race. Darwin like his law was very foolish and unchristian to say the least.In life an animal is an animal and a man is meant to rise above the fray of animalistic behavior and that so-called only the strong survive mentality which is animalistic by its very nature. When one talks about civilization its spoken of in terms of progression yet it is still bound by the chains of the animalistic behavior so prevalent in hateful ideologies grounded in or masked by the delusional theories of racial natural selection. A man who is aware of himself begins to grow in his or her own destiny and that destiny is also measured by the victory gained by his or her own struggle. Animals kill the weak so the strong survive yet the delusion is that those with the bigger and more effective guns are the strongest of all mankind. The power of the heart mind and soul are forgotten by men such as these who consider the rifle to be natures deciding factors. I am convinced that such a one-sided view of what qualifies for a sustainable society such as the one promoted here on this website is doomed to failure or the lauching pad to further demote the intelligence of all peoples especially that of those who promote such a foul smelling ignorance as that which I’ve found here. If by chance you happen to be a christian or at least have led yourself to believe you are one and share the views promoted here you would do well to remember that if grace were not given and YHVH dcided only the strong in righteousness should survive then you would all stand condemned this very day. Enough of your hypocrisy I say and good riddance to your beliefs when they find their rightful place in extinction.

28 — WhatHappened1776 wrote at 3:42 AM on January 19:

Per Anonymous from above:

“There you have it.”

Exactly…a team of the best scholars couldn’t have put it better.

Thanks a lot to those of you out there who kept thinking it was funny to use terms like “McCrazy”…

A pro-gun guy, from the pro-est, pro-gun state in the world. His running mate ALSO pro-gun. People were afraid of him. Other countries feared him. Personally, I don’t much care for any politician. They don’t work for a living like you or I do.

But consider the alternative. Oh wait…you already did…and he won…pathetic.

Y’know, wanting so-called “better” candidates like your Ru Pauls, or your Jareds, or your Daisy Dukes…nothing really wrong with that. But you know as well as I do…THEY NEVER HAVE A CHANCE OF WINNING!!!!!!!!!!!!

Say it with me…

“They…never…have…a…chance…of…winning.”

Aint Gonna Happen…!!!!! No matter how bad you want it. Remember the whole Perot thing? Or is there anybody out there left who’s even old enough to remember such things?!?

VOTE FOR PEROT! (Help Elect Clinton!) That was a wake up call wasn’t it?

So what do we end up doing…exactly what minorities and their liberal dog handlers wanted…let ourselves be divided. Well, it worked. What do you think of things now? Feel better about yourself?

It’s now legitimate. Our kind is nothing but a laughing stock. Just a bunch of racist, white trash, change hating rednecks to be made fun of every ten minutes on Comedy Central(MTV).

Please, don’t let this site become “The Onion”. We’re better than that. WE don’t believe everything Hollywood tells us.

I was tired of fuming before this election. Now I get to do it double-time for the next four years…at least!

Yeah…there you have it alright. Thanks….thanks alot!

29 — Reality check wrote at 10:37 AM on January 19:

Declining white populations and interracial offspring with create the cherished equality the delusional strive for. View the future today by visiting Mexico or Brazil or at least turn on your cable T.V. and watch latino T.V.

Few hit the genetic lottery jackpot like B.O. Examples of the most likely offspring can be found on the pages of thugreport.

30 — BonBon wrote at 12:22 PM on January 19:


“…They were intended to be this way by the people who created the Department of Education…”

Posted by Michael C. Scott at 5:33 PM on January 17

I’ve always maintained that the Department of Education is about generating non-White jobs, not about educating children (which is far down on the list of their goals).

After all, what does the government do with all those black PhDs in Education?

The secondary goal is to indoctrinate and intimidate White children into government-sanctioned mult-culti, PC psychobabble to bring them in line with government plans for a New World Order (with Whites on the bottom). The Communists couldn’t do a better job than the Department of (Re-) Education.

Bon


31 — Fed Up wrote at 1:11 PM on January 19:

Repeat after me: “The achievement gap between races has got to be the fault of the White Man.” Granting the absence of White influence of any kind, WHY did Blacks in Africa achieve virtually NOTHING on their own in the eons before White European explorers started exploration of the Dark Continent? I mean we are told to believe there ARE NO real racial differences other than complexion and skin color.

Perhaps an African poster would be kind enough to tell us about the incredible number of Black philosophers, scientists, physicians and other intellectuals who helped lift White Europe out of the miasma and stagnation of feudalism and pave the way for the Industrial Revolution in Europe and America.

32 — Mike wrote at 5:01 PM on January 19:

“…it is whites who are failing Nature’s test and declining fast.”

Actually our population has stayed marginally the same as a race. The only real losses we’ve suffered are from the small minority of whites who race mix and from whites who refuse to actually have children. In the big picture, our population is still relatively the same. We have lost territory, but that can be regained.

The worst case scenario is that whites breed en masse with coloreds as they did in Mexico and Brazil. Best case scenario is we regain territory for whites only.

33 — Anonymous wrote at 8:57 PM on January 19:

“Why is it that whites who frequent this website feel threatened by some supposed extinction of the white race?”

Because our numbers are rapidly declining around the world. Because 95% of the legal immigrants who come to the U.S.A. are not white by government policy. Because 98% of the illegal aliens here are not white. Because American whites are not safe when walking in many non-white areas. Because we are diluting our European-American culture with non-Western people who are here to colonize and create mini versions of their home countries.

Surely it is not immoral for white Americans to want to live in safety and not be overwhelmed, overtaxed and outbred into non-existence?

34 — voter wrote at 9:28 PM on January 19:

“The strong survive and the weak perish. From what I’ve seen so far, it is whites who are failing Nature’s test and declining fast.”


Well, ordinarily yes. But only on a level playing field.
But it’s not necessarily so when the whole thing has been engineered and rigged to go a certain way.


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