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Wow, you people are horrible! How dare you mock and ridicule this poor little kid who clearly has a learning disability of some sort? At least he is putting forth some effort. Just because he can't organize the majority of his words into what most people would consider a comprehensible format is no reason to make fun. This misunderstood child that is so desperately seeking your approval the he quotes your positive comments and repeatedly posts poor emulations of you in misguided attempts to gain a glimmer of attention. You should all be ashamed of yourselves!

Preach on, "Alma"! I think you're totally rad above, too!

P.S. - Omega, I'm not sure what you mean by "generational wealth". I'm 3rd generation American of po' *** European descent. I'm going to assume you're White, so you must have tons of cash. If you or your crazy-rich parents could send me some I'd very much like to get in on this rich White guy legacy thing.

P.P.S. - Kelvy, if you could teach me some self-rape techniques that don't leave any marks I may have some interesting business opportunities to line up.

3.P.S. - I just recently learned that my sig is no longer ironic. What a sad day.

Look what the cat dragged in.

I've skimmed most of this thread and never saw it turn towards Africa. The topic is about blacks, in the US, being disadvantaged.

Let me rephrase Alma /= you people.





Edited, Dec 2nd 2011 2:52pm by Elinda

I know that I shouldn't even waste my time responding to such an amateurish derision, but we can certainly play this game. Don't let your ignorance and stupidity lead you to think that you're worth anything in life. You're obviously a bandwagon poster who's completely clueless on what's going on and felt the need to recycle comments to "fit in". I mean, unless you truly believe the typo "rad" is any indication of logic.

If you're unable to understand my words, then maybe that's a clue that my intellect is peerless to you. So, if it makes you feel special, then go ahead and hold on to that tenacious thought of me being somewhat inferior to you in any way shape or form.



No feasible and logical amount of money will ever close the gap of "generational wealth". It's truly sad that you think money is the answer.

If the people don't have the knowledge, motivation and goals to be something in life, they will fail, no matter how much money they have.

"Throwing some money into low-income education" as opposed to refocusing the education is the exact reason how the education system fails.

That's as adorable as a litter of fluffy kittens in one of those twenty minute ASPCA Sarah Mclachlan commercials.

JD is an old poster that's come home to roost. We like him. Unlike you.

@ JD
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You want the DADT thread. Or maybe the virgin one.

Edited, Dec 2nd 2011 11:46am by Jophiel

Well there's your problem right there.

Don't worry; the impulse control will come with age. I understand your words just fine. I have a six year old with about the same grasp of the English language so I'm fairly accustomed to deciphering what you kids **** on a page.

Right, because the practical application of which would be used for a purpose other than the accumulation of wealth. I'd also disagree with your inference that "the people" (and by "the people", I assume you mean "those people" {and by "those people" I mean "black" people}) are ignorant, lazy under-achievers.

How you doin'?

lazy prick.(but cool link. I saw that show on Netflix, very funny. Neat new feature, when did they connect the youtubes to the zam tube?)
While he makes a mildly amusing observation, in my experience it is grossly exaggerated. I'm white and I'm not rich. I can't even afford a Lexus! My BMW is already four years old and I've still got $24k to pay off! I'm on the verge of being upside-down on a mortgage since the ****** housing market is pushing the property value below $500k. Do you have any idea what that does to your credit?! I'm already down to 845 for ****'s sake!!

Well, that depends on what the problem is. When I was studying "Curriculum and Instruction" from lolphoenix, I concentrated on math education. Research supports that math is a favorite subject for elementary students, but quickly falls to last in the pre-algebra time period.

In my high school, there were students who planned to go to college, but took the tech path to avoid taking Algebra II, not realizing that College Algebra is nothing more than Algebra I and II. In college, I tutored fresh out of high school freshman on middle school math.

I stopped, thought and researched the math concepts that are taught in the k-12 curricula. For the most part, it can be very redundant up until 9th or 10th grade if the student decides to "take it slow".


I spent 3 years in Korea and spoke with various Asians of different backgrounds and concluded that they equally hate math just as much as we do. The difference is that they have to take entrance exams to go to HIGH School, so they study and they are forced to take Physics and Calculus. Because of this, when they come to the U.S., they blow us out of the water. It has nothing to do with them being inherently smarter.

What does this all mean? It means, that a fault that the U.S. has in the math curriculum is redundancy and options to "take it slow". From there, you address those issues by forcing students to take certain classes by certain levels and providing summer school and after school programs for students that might need extra attention. Is it that easy? No. Is that the 100% solution? It's the concept of what has to be done to improve education.

Although, money is a huge factor, just tossing money at that problem without properly defining what the problem is and why it is what it is will never solve it.

Oh, I see. That, my friend, is the result of being in an environment that exceeds your level of understanding. When I was an undergrad attending post-grad colloquiums, I too understood the words said but didn't have a clue on the mentioned concept. After a few sessions, I began to understand more and more. If you spent more time trying to expand your mind and less time deriding me with recycled calumnies, then this discussion would sound less like a "six year old" discussion and more like something that you can actually comprehend.



What? You just can't throw money at a problem and expect it to be fixed. You'll just end right back up in the same situation again later.



That was never an implication. If you actually read my posts, then you would have read where I said that I wasn't implying that any group of people weren't educated. The problem is when society creates this environment to support and reward mediocrity and below. That creates a new standard for the said group and they will work hard to reach that goal. If that problem is BELOW average, then you have successfully set that group of people up for failure.

It isn't laziness on their end, it's a constitutional set back for individuals that results in people not obtaining the standard.

money lets you attain overall knowledge and goals you dolt. You need money to get schooling, and you need money to realize goals.