This POST made me so angry I could barely breathe. As directly posted at WIZBANG [corrected typo]:
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Update [2005-7-19 20:20:8 by Sinequanon]: A clickable link to
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FROM WIZBANG: how will I ever get anyone to pick my cotton?
A story out today confirms what I've always known. Black kids are stupid. In fact they are too stupid to learn english.
Ebonics suggested for district: By Irma Lemus Staff Writer
Incorporating Ebonics into a new school policy that targets black students, the lowest-achieving group in the San Bernardino City Unified School District, may provide students a more well-rounded curriculum, said a local sociologist.
The goal of the district's policy is to improve black students' academic performance by keeping them interested in school. Compared with other racial groups in the district, black students go to college the least and have the most dropouts and suspensions.
Blacks make up the second largest racial group in the district, trailing Latinos.
A pilot of the policy, known as the Students Accumulating New Knowledge Optimizing Future Accomplishment Initiative, has been implemented at two city schools.
Mary Texeira, a sociology professor at Cal State San Bernardino, commended the San Bernardino Board of Education for approving the policy in June.
Texeira suggested that including Ebonics in the program would be beneficial for students. Ebonics, a dialect of American English that is spoken by many blacks throughout the country, was recognized as a separate language in 1996 by the Oakland school board.
"Ebonics is a different language, it's not slang as many believe,' Texeira said. "For many of these students Ebonics is their language, and it should be considered a foreign language. These students should be taught like other students who speak a foreign language.'
I finally found something that I agree with California liberals on.
Black kids are too stupid to learn english, we all know that. So why should we try to teach them? Let them stick to their own kind. If we teach them english then they'll be reading then the next thing you know they'll be taking our jobs and trying to move into our neighborhoods.
I say we keep them stupid. If not, how will I ever get anyone to pick my cotton?
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GO GET WIZBANG, what a Xenophobe!
Update [2005-7-19 20:21:27 by Sinequanon]:
After reading everyone's comments here, I found the commentary going into a direction I hadn't foreseen as a first issue. Interesting. My outrage at the way the original post was handled by the author, i.e. in a completely negligent, misinformed and prejudiced manner was barely reflected in the commentary below. Again, interesting .... and, disturbing. Your commentary on the whole is really amazing regarding education, sociology and linguistics particularly.