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? how is a math test racist?  Can you give me an example of a racist math question on the SAT?[/quote]

A restaurant bill is $120.  What is the total after 5% sales tax and 18% tip?

[b]Blacks don't have money to go to restaurants[/b], and would not be aware of tipping, and whether the tip applies after the sales tax or before.[/quote]

Are you being serious?  Because I go to restaurants pretty frequently and I routinely see black people dining in them.

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dp.. that was sarcasm, PP.

People who are saying that the SAT is racist are being ridiculous, and using the ^^ as an example of how ridiculous that assertion is.

How can a math problem be racist?  And if someone brings up the stupid "regata" example, I'll just remind that person that a lot of Asian Americans and white people also wouldn't know what that is.  I sure didn't when I took the SAT in the 80s.[/quote]

I posted that, and it wasn't sarcasm.  That is the argument that gets made over culturally biased questions.  I was too lazy to put up the example from Diff'rent Strokes about how many people can sleep in a house, that involved black people know people sleep on the floor and in the bathtub.[/quote]

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