I propose that we Americans work to improve a single metric: Black high school English language proficiency test scores. That's it. Forget GDP, forget the debt, forget crime rates, forget birth rates, forget illegitimacy. Forget all of it. Black high school English language proficiency test scores are the key. Dig these charts from this data source.
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| Michigan high school English language proficiency in 2017 under white supremacist Trump. |
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| Michigan high school English language proficiency in 2014 under Lightworker Obama. |
I chose the Michigan data* because it came up first in my Google search and I'm lazy.
Whether the Federal government is run by a racist like Trump or compassion-filled Obama, about half of the black students are effectively illiterate. They're doomed. If you can't read by the time you graduate from high school, you're going to have a bad life and you won't contribute much to society.
All of the marches and rioting and sign-waving and speeches and word-salad gibberish coming from the Aristocrats in our universities mean nothing if half of the population can't read and write. We're wasting our time and from the historical data, we've been wasting our time quite a while.
Why I Chose This Metric
Drive English language proficiency among blacks and you drive everything.
First, there's no way to improve those stats without traditional families. Pay the teachers, blame racism, double the school staff, yell at the moms, blame racism some more and none of it changes until there's one parent doing the dishes while the other parent helps with the homework. That much is obvious from all of the available data across all races and all years.
Second, all we care about are black test scores because, for a variety of reasons that really don't matter, we've fetishized blacks. Everyone wants to be cool, so everyone wants to be black. The music, the attitudes, the hand gestures, the whole act, it's all cool and we want to be cool. If they're acing the English language test scores, we'll all do it.
Third, we're $25T in debt and we need everyone to pitch in and help the economy. If you can't read, you're a dead weight, dragging the rest of us down. Imagine where we'd be if black English language test scores were the same as white scores.
Go ahead, imagine it. I'll wait.
Finally, and most importantly, they are God's children and we're treating them like dirt right now. You know those progressives who scream at you about racism? Guess what? When they have to travel through all-black neighborhoods like Compton or South Side Chicago, they do what everyone else does. They roll up their windows, lock their doors and drive fast to get out of there as quickly as possible. Wanna know something else? The residents can't do that. So if you don't want to drive through there, imagine how it feels to live there. If you wouldn't want that for your children, you shouldn't accept it for anyone else.
I don't expect anyone to adopt this metric. We're having too much onanastic fun with our fight against racism. It's easier to tear down Robert E. Lee statues than it is to look into the reasons why blacks can't read and it feels oh-so-good to fight the Confederacy. After all, they don't shoot back any more. It's all pleasure and no work.
So there you have it. A simple metric we can all watch. Make of it what you will.
* - Don't ask me why they couldn't manage to present the data from the two years the same way. Suffice it to say that things have improved slightly under the white supremacist, but not enough to make a real difference.
This is also a good point. It is pretty much what I told my daughters, that reading is the basis for everything else, and as long as they read smoothly, comfortably, and whenever the opportunity arises, then I was confident that they could pick up anything else that they need to know.
ReplyDeleteThe big problem, though, is that school seems to almost be designed to make kids hate whatever they are studying. Kids who end up enjoying reading, or math, or history, or whatever, do so because of things that they do of their own initiative outside of school, not because of the things that they are assigned to do in school. And that is why the home portion is important. Not because a parent forces them to do homework (which usually just reinforces the hate). What is important is that the parent set a good example, and also make things available that are more enjoyable than the crap that is assigned in school.
Once again it all comes down to the sub-culture (not "sub-" as in "lower", but "sub-" as in a smaller part) in which these families (particularly the young males) find themselves. I've always wondered how we could get the liberals to accept this. I think I finally found it.
ReplyDeleteLiberals accept that humans are just animals, like any other animal. More and more we find examples in the animal kingdom where, behaviors once thought to be a hallmark of humanity, are found, at least partially, in another animal. So is there an example of an animal group which has found itself bereft of older, fully mature males (i.e., the infamous single mom family)? Yes, there most definitely is.
Turns out that in a few game preserves in Africa there are elephant herds in which there are no fully mature bulls. And what happens? The maturing males turn violent as their hormones kick in. Don't take my word for it. See for yourself in this YouTube video from none other than that bastion of the liberal press, the New York Times (note the name of the video!).
How have the game preserve wardens attempted to correct this? For some of the preserves they imported large bulls from other herds. And guess what? It stopped the bad behavior. That's right, just having a more mature male "subdue" them fixed the bad behavior (note subdue was the word used by a preserve warden). In one preserve (the primary focus of the video) one particular warden has become the big male and simply stands up to the not fully mature bulls. Remarkably, this has also worked.
I think the lesson for humans is as clear as clear can be.