Sixty percent of our (Beaumont, Texas) highest paid school employees are Black.But only 6.8% of Blacks in the city have at least an Associates degree - in a district that is 65% Black students.
In a city of 100k people that is 50% Black.
I live in an area whose economy is dominated by "The Three P's" (Petroleum, Prisons, The Port) - and each of these require at least an Associates degree for advancement.
What is needed IS NOT more Blacks in positions of power - what is needed is more qualified Blacks.
Agreed! I was sitting at a Duval County Public School leadership meeting the other day, and as I looked around, it suddenly struck me how much of the leadership was first of all female and second of all black. Then it struck we as we sat in this august group of educational professionals the irony of the discussion: Why minorities, esp. African Americans, continue to lag so far behind in Duval County.
ReplyDeleteThe levels of pure, "ivory" tower unselfconsciousness prevailing in those school district offices is utterly astonishing.
ReplyDeleteTalk about fiddling while Rome burns...,
I agree with anonymous
ReplyDelete^ Laughing at brohammas
ReplyDeleteI ran Anonymous's message thru Google Translator. It's a pitch for Asian sex videos, lol.
Anyway, I don't much about sports, John, but I think you changed the color of your font to dark gray and it's hard to read with the black background page color.
Left this comment on the wrong post.
ReplyDeleteRe: this one. Hard to believe.