October 10, 2006
There is a “growing gap†between the number of black and Hispanic students graduating from high school in California and the number who are enrolling in the UC (University of California) system. Naturally, the race whores are having the vapors over these new statistics shedding tears of dread and doom over the fact that, for example, only 96 of the enrolling freshmen at UCLA are black.
“California has a real serious problem in terms of inequitable educational outcomes for students of different races,†said Ricardo Vasquez, spokesman for the UC system. “Only 6.5 percent of Latino public high-school graduates are eligible for UC, compared to 6.2 percent for African-Americans, 16.2 percent for whites and 31.4 percent for Asians.“
The answer to this “problem†is contained within the quoted passage above, if you really were serious about finding answers rather than just race-baiting. A university system should be concerned only if it is providing inequitable educational opportunities. So long as it is not denying the equal chance for any student with the grades and resume to attend, it has discharged its responsibility. As is often said in the civil rights arena, the issue is one of equality of opportunity, not equality of result.
More importantly, the key to the kingdom rests in the fact that Asian students are out-performing everyone. For quite a few years now I have been asking the question why is it that some black, Hispanic, Native American, etc. kids manage to do quite well in the same system in which many other of their peers fail miserably. I don’t know the answer empirically, although I have my suspicions, but the answer to this question should certainly unlock the solution. Think about it. Two African-American males from the same neighborhood and sitting in the same class have vastly disparate academic results. Why should that be? What is one doing that the other is not? What is one exposed to that the other is protected from?
Which is why the academic performance of Asians is throwing a wrench into the works of the affirmative action debate. Why is this visibly-identifiable minority group so outperforming by leaps and bounds all others, including white kids? Let me tell you a quick story to illustrate my point. When my daughter was in fifth grade, she won her school’s spelling bee. That allowed her to compete against the winners from the other nine elementary schools in her school district. Although Asian kids made up about 23% of the student body throughout the district, seven of the ten finalists were either of Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese or Japanese ancestry. In fact, three of these kids were not even born in America, and English was their second language. [Note: By the way, my daughter is half African-American]
What is it that these minority kids do that allows them to academically stand head and shoulders above their peers who are sitting right beside them in the same class? That’s the question we should be asking.
[This article can also be seen at Release The Hounds!]
4 users commented in " Those Damn Asians Keep Screwing Up The Pro-Affirmative Action Debate "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackbackthats because asian kids tend to be pushed by their parents at a VERY early age and learn to be very competitive education wise. you cant really blame them for skewing the curve, because they just happen to work 10x as hard everyone else.
Instead of trying to keep bringing the bar down, raise the bar and push every child to work as hard as asian children then talk about not get an equal oppurtunity and all the other bullshit. And if thats too hard then you prolly deserve what you get. Hardwork and education pays off, learn from the asians or suck it up foo…
Seriously?? Don’t blame the Asian kids. Just work harder. No one is going to care if you don’t work hard. The big reason to why there is a bigger gap between blacks/latinos and others? Work-ethic. Plain and simple. And to your “throwing the wrench” to affirmative action, Asians are actually hurt more from affirmative action. They are not considered into affirmative action. And besides, what does that matter? As long as your black/latino (not saying I am racist but it is reality) you will get the edge. But honestly, if i were black/latino, I would feel ashamed to have affirmative action because it basically says “You aren’t good enough to do it by yourself”. Think it over before you rant about how “Those Damn Asians Keep Screwing Up The Pro-Affirmative Action Debate”.
Just leave it to the white people to screw stuff up. Affirmative action hurts everybody. And who came up with it? All of those white people in the government.
To white people: AA makes it so that you have to work harder to achieve less than what someone else can. Greaaat idea, geniuses
To Asian people: AA does the same thing to Asians, BUT there are several big differences. First of all, Asians didn’t vote for this and bring it upon themselves like white people did. Second, Asians are underrepresented by a lot. Nearly every time a white person complains about AA (which was their idea) helping out all the minorities, the Asians are forgotten. Some stupid people even think that AA helps Asians.
Nope, this is what AA is: “Let’s help all of the minorities! Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asi–oh wait, not Asians. They’re the smallest minority and actually some of the people who should help the most, but let’s not.”
To blacks and Hispanics: “Y’all are too stupid to do anything for yourself. I’ll just do it for you… Caaan yoooou undeeeerstaaaand?”
Do you know what AA really does? Say there’s a little Chinese boy whose parents immigrated from China. His parents work hours a day to run the Chinese restaurant that gives them the small amount of money they have. The boy rarely sees his parents as a result of that. He aspires to be successful when he grows up so he works hard in school. Now there’s another boy. He’s a little black boy whose family has lived in the U.S. for generations. Generations ago, his ancestors immigrated from South Africa. Not a single one of his ancestors was a slave or anything like that. Now, after all those generations, his family is rich. His parents get very expensive tutors to teach him and his parents basically buy their way through everything. This little boy doesn’t even care about his education because he figures he’ll just inherit his parents’ money. Years go by, and the poor, but dedicated Asian boy and the rich black boy both apply for college. The Asian boy has higher scores than the black boy at everything. The Asian boy has amazing extracurriculars and has hundreds of hours of community service. The black boy? Nothing. There is one college that both of the boys has their eyes set on. Who gets in? The black boy who never has given a crap about hard work at all. Can you really tell me that Asians love AA?
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