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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asians are often considered “white adjacent.”

I’m not sure how the success of black immigrants gets explained.[/quote]

Black immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean come from upper middle class and educated professionals, not the poor laborers and servants there. You racists always ignore the huge advancements of U.S. blacks since partial enforcement of civil rights. There has been a huge increase in bachelors, masters, and professional degrees and incomes and standards of living. [/quote]

That can't be right. To hear the anti-racists tell it, nothing has gotten better for Black people since the Founding. [/quote]

Of course things have gotten better, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t many challenges still. Things have also gotten better for women but they still are behind men in many ways, such as representation in government, and they still make less than men on average—82 cents for every dollar a man makes. So should we as a society stop striving for more equality because “things have gotten better”?  
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Strive as you wish for the magic “equality” that you cannot define.   The sad fact is that our country is sliding away from equality as our educational standards are weakened by the woke who believe leveling will make us better when  the opposite is true.   Kids strong in humanities and weak in math and science cannot become adults who sustain our economy. [/quote]

I know you love throwing out the word woke like it makes you cool or something, but your comment is dumb.  Just because someone is woke (which you have no idea what that means) does not mean that we want to lower our educational standards.  At the same time, the truth is, the world does not revolve around math and science.  I work for a think tank.  I need kids who write well - which is difficult to find b/c everyone is so focused on math and science.  They can't think their way out of a paper bag but they can do math.  Steve Jobs was a psychology major.[/quote]

The word woke is commonly associated with folks who want a racial reckoning, which has ramped up in the last two years, as they’re obviously upset by the terrible historical injustices of slavery, and its legacy which affects many aspects of American society today. They also don’t like police brutality, because police killings disproportionately affect the black community based on their size of the population.

There are laudable goals to reduce racism and the things listed above.

Then there are questionable polices that are being implemented under amorphous equity goals.

These include things like ending AP classes as we know them, to allow more people to get in. It’s essentially watering down academic vigor in favor of a quota system. Then there are things like deeming things that aren’t racist as being racist. “Show your work” is not a racist thing. Conventional math is not racist. It’s either you know it or you don’t. In NY, 2/3rds of the Asian students were FARMS students. Yet, they represent a success story at the school. Ending race neutral entrance exams to a challenging school because that school comprises “too many” Asian or white students just seems counterintuitive and would ensure resentment. The Dems need to be tough and fair with what types of policies they implement or they will lose elections. I am a moderate dem and am getting fed up with being beaten over the head with “white fragility” and guilt based solutions to complex realities.[/quote]

Except that no one was happy with the recently current state of Stuy, including and/or especially Asian students.  It needed to be fixed.  Whether this is the right fix, something needed to change, and this is a start.  Paralysis solves no problems.  [/quote]

No one, huh? Sounds like you’re pulling that out of your ace.

I think the FARMS immigrant students who were excelling found it to be working. Who is no one? It was the most highly regarded public school in NY. I’m sure many current and former students disagree with your anecdotal assessment. We can’t just a trophy to everyone. Unfortunately, we need planes built by engineers who weren’t just give an honorary degree out of fairness, in order for it to fly correctly.[/quote]

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