Comments on: Update III: ‘A Nation Of Cowards’

By: Van Wijk

Van Wijk — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:33:37 +0000

Ha! So much for Post-Racial America.

Unfortunately for Nefertiti and her ilk, the history of slavery didn’t begin with the first purchase of a black by a white (and very probably sold at a market in Africa by African slavecatchers). Slavery began before the first word was written. The Romans enslaved the white Gauls, Britons and Spaniards, and before them the Greeks enslaved each other. Go back far enough in time and everyone reading this blog probably has a slave ancestor. But gelded whites in this country have allowed blacks to take special possession of slavery, and blacks immediately put it to use hustling whites out of their money.

This is the tip of the iceberg. Hopefully an angry race-baiting black will eventually slap white America hard enough to wake it up.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:05:11 +0000

Of course, admission to the elite colleges does absolutely zero – nothing – about the problem of the semi-permanent underclass. Eliminating the damage caused by welfare, minimum wage laws, anti-competitive laws, governmental schools, and the war on drugs would help the urban poor more. Meanwhile, forcing the remnants of the capitalist system to promote minority “credentialed” mediocrities will actually help transfer wealth to “people of color” – in India, Korea, China, and other countries. Ironically, the big joke is that the so-called elite colleges are essentially overrated – consider this gedanken-experiment: What is better – spending 4 years at Harvard and receiving a diploma saying “U. of North Dakota” or spending 4 years at North Dakota and receiving a diploma that says “Harvard”?

By: Blode0322

Blode0322 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:40:00 +0000

Your article on UCLA was excellent but one quotation seems to have understated how much distortion affirmative action creates. You quoted: “[t]he median SAT score of blacks and Hispanics in Berkeley’s liberal arts programs was 250 points lower (on a 1,600-point scale) than that of whites and Asians.”

Looks correct except that the parenthetical section seems to assume that the minimum SAT score is 0, with AA contributing just under one sixth of a perfect score to a candidate of the correct skin color. In fact the minimum score is 200; the combined range is only 1200 points. Thus AA contributes over one fifth of a perfect score to a correctly pigmented candidate.