"Academically accepted" - That doesn't mean much anymore given the low quality state of education there now. I'm really coming to believe more and more that trade schools are the way to go. I say this sadly, as when I went to school it was about moving outside the insular barely-there intellectual bubble of high school and expanding one'…
"Academically accepted" - That doesn't mean much anymore given the low quality state of education there now. I'm really coming to believe more and more that trade schools are the way to go. I say this sadly, as when I went to school it was about moving outside the insular barely-there intellectual bubble of high school and expanding one's horizons, but now that students are customers with a narcissistic view of what they want to learn, and not challenge their values or belief systems, I don't know that university serves a purpose anymore unless you really have to be there (like for a law or medical degree).
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter, as you know, speak at length about lowering expectations for black students in high-achievement schools in the name of DEI. How white & Asian kids have to have much higher grades, and more impressive achievements to get into certain schools whereas black kids just have to have good grades, but not higher than average. It *is* a bigotry of low expectations and often these kids can't compete - they don't have the study habits, motivation and drive these other kids have - so they fail, drop out, and that surely doesn't serve the cause of equity or equality in the slightest.
I just started reading Thomas Sowell's "Black Rednecks & White Liberals" and the first essay touches on *where* the traditional negative stereotypes of black Southerners come from - lazy, into overly-emotional religion, ignorant, violent, licentious, etc. - and the answer is, they inherited this from white Southerners who were characterized exactly the same way, not just in the US but back in the hinterlands of Ireland and Scotland where they were exactly the hillbillies & rednecks so many of us have come to disdain. He makes his case for how white Southerners *did* embody those stereotypes and it's where southern blacks got it - and how northern blacks were more industrious and educated (he even makes a case for the descendants of slaves who came from more educated households having those same values, and passing them down through the generations).
The book was published in 2005 so it might be a bit dated, not sure, but it's begun to answer a question I asked rhetorically last year here that no one really had a firm answer on - Why were white Southerners so brutal to black slaves? (Some challenged the contention that it was light-years worse than any other slavery institution). The answer may begin with that the rednecks who came to settle in the South rather than the more centrally English who settled in New England were far more violent and, frankly, savage by our standards, with a retributive justice system that formed the basis of lynching (which pretty much only happened to white men until *after* the Civil War and freed blacks) and a love affair with torture, dismemberment and bloodshed (duels were fought mano-a-mano, not with guns, and the options were 'fair fight' or 'rough and tumble', the latter often being the preferred choice not just by the spectators, but by the duellers themselves. It described one battle in which the loser lost both ears, had both eyes gouged out, and had his nose bitten off.
Anyway...to get back to the bigotry of low expectations, according to Sowell that's where they came from, and he notes, as Shelby Steele has, that black people need to deal with a culture of lack of valuing education and achievement and to stop considering success 'acting white'.
"Academically accepted" - That doesn't mean much anymore given the low quality state of education there now. I'm really coming to believe more and more that trade schools are the way to go. I say this sadly, as when I went to school it was about moving outside the insular barely-there intellectual bubble of high school and expanding one's horizons, but now that students are customers with a narcissistic view of what they want to learn, and not challenge their values or belief systems, I don't know that university serves a purpose anymore unless you really have to be there (like for a law or medical degree).
Glenn Loury & John McWhorter, as you know, speak at length about lowering expectations for black students in high-achievement schools in the name of DEI. How white & Asian kids have to have much higher grades, and more impressive achievements to get into certain schools whereas black kids just have to have good grades, but not higher than average. It *is* a bigotry of low expectations and often these kids can't compete - they don't have the study habits, motivation and drive these other kids have - so they fail, drop out, and that surely doesn't serve the cause of equity or equality in the slightest.
I just started reading Thomas Sowell's "Black Rednecks & White Liberals" and the first essay touches on *where* the traditional negative stereotypes of black Southerners come from - lazy, into overly-emotional religion, ignorant, violent, licentious, etc. - and the answer is, they inherited this from white Southerners who were characterized exactly the same way, not just in the US but back in the hinterlands of Ireland and Scotland where they were exactly the hillbillies & rednecks so many of us have come to disdain. He makes his case for how white Southerners *did* embody those stereotypes and it's where southern blacks got it - and how northern blacks were more industrious and educated (he even makes a case for the descendants of slaves who came from more educated households having those same values, and passing them down through the generations).
The book was published in 2005 so it might be a bit dated, not sure, but it's begun to answer a question I asked rhetorically last year here that no one really had a firm answer on - Why were white Southerners so brutal to black slaves? (Some challenged the contention that it was light-years worse than any other slavery institution). The answer may begin with that the rednecks who came to settle in the South rather than the more centrally English who settled in New England were far more violent and, frankly, savage by our standards, with a retributive justice system that formed the basis of lynching (which pretty much only happened to white men until *after* the Civil War and freed blacks) and a love affair with torture, dismemberment and bloodshed (duels were fought mano-a-mano, not with guns, and the options were 'fair fight' or 'rough and tumble', the latter often being the preferred choice not just by the spectators, but by the duellers themselves. It described one battle in which the loser lost both ears, had both eyes gouged out, and had his nose bitten off.
Anyway...to get back to the bigotry of low expectations, according to Sowell that's where they came from, and he notes, as Shelby Steele has, that black people need to deal with a culture of lack of valuing education and achievement and to stop considering success 'acting white'.