We Always Knew They Were Stupid

Staunch opponents of affirmative action have argued, albeit while struggling to maintain a straight face, that they believe minorities are intelligent, capable beings. It is liberals, you see, who oppress minorities through racism masked as altruism.

Conservative politicians make little effort to conceal their dislike of minorities. Republican Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott of Mississippi and Republican Congressman Bob Barr both addressed the Council of Conservative Citizens, an organization that David Duke throws his weight behind.

Liberals, on the other hand, have dressed up their racist beliefs with affirmative action, quotas, and handouts, and minorities bend over backward to accept them.

Do minorities accept these programs because they truly believe Bill Clinton and his comrades are looking out for their interests? If they do, are the Trent Lotts of the country closer to the truth? Or have they simply grown accustomed to a society that gives credence to their every complaint?

Racial profiling has gone national. What was once a political scandal limited to New Jersey now has other states probing the possible biases of their police officers. Hearings and investigations in New Jersey are ongoing (with no police officers present to explain their side of the story), and the testimony of racial profiling "victims" has started to hit the papers.

At one hearing, DeShantel Tribbet wove a tale of racism, provoking outrage from a state senator.

Tribbet conceded that she was racing down I-295 in a frenzied attempt to get her younger sister to Rider University's campus before the sister's class began.

An off-duty police officer spotted the speeding 1987 Oldsmobile and turned on his flashing lights to pull her over. The off-duty officer was in a green van, and the flashing red light was on the dashboard. Tribbet, rightfully wary of an unmarked vehicle, continued to maintain her pace and refused to pull over.

After a brief pursuit, Tribbet acquiesced and pulled to the side of the road. Of course, forgetting that she had been barreling down a highway and initially ignored the off-duty officer's request to pull over, she explained that it was "definitely racial."

She also invoked her 4-year-old son to garner sympathy, although no reporters thought to ask why she placed her son's life in danger by driving at such a high speed. Being late for a class isn't an emergency.

A Camden schoolteacher, Rob Williams, told the panel that his arrest by state troopers was because of his race. Williams said he was allegedly stopped for swerving, and then given a battery of sobriety tests. Williams, who admits he had "a drink" earlier in the evening, said he could not perform a balance test due to gout in his leg. When the officer did not buy that excuse, Williams said to the officer: "This is racial profiling."

While one would be naοve to say profiling does not exist -- and even more naοve to claim that it doesn't have its value -- the above stories are not proof of it. What it proves is that minorities are being coddled and any wrongdoing on their part must stem from a racist mentality.

"If the car is going fast, being pulled over means I'm being harassed."

Two recent decisions in Florida mirror the entitlement mentality that has shifted from middle-class whites to the black population.

In Palm Beach County, the school district discovered blacks were underrepresented in the gifted and talented programs. Black students make up almost 30 percent of the district's enrollment, but account for only 7 percent of students in the gifted program. A four-year-old complaint says the district discriminates against minorities in its gifted program, and the federal Office of Civil Rights is demanding to know how the district will fix the problem.

Rather than assessing why black students do poorly in school – presumably because they come from single-mother households in which education is not stressed – the school district decided to place a band-aid on the problem. A key element: Teachers would be required to recommend for screening three students who are either minorities, have limited English skills or are poor.

As happened in colleges when standards were lowered to boost female and minority enrollments, the value of the gifted program will decrease. A college degree is no longer an advantage because anyone can attain one, regardless of merit. If anyone can be admitted to a gifted program, it will become a ghetto for the disadvantaged, with intelligent students seeking a new outlet.

Florida also has the "Bright Futures" program. ("Bright" being subjective.) Most Bright Futures scholarships pay about 75 percent of tuition and fees at one of the state's 10 public universities for high school students who earned a 3.0 GPA and a score of at least 970 on the SAT. About two-thirds of all university freshmen now get one of the scholarships. At the University of Florida, 97 percent do.

A 3.0 GPA and a 970 on the SAT are not indicators of a student with a "bright" future. Grades are so inflated today, and with Florida being a refuge for the stupid, a 3.0 is more like a 1.0. An adjusted score of 970 can be achieved by almost anyone, and all it proves is that you paid attention in SAT tutoring classes.

Florida politicians, aware that a 970 proves only that a student has a pulse (and not necessarily a strong one), considered raising the standards. For months, state education leaders, including the governor and State University System Chancellor Adam Herbert, called for raising the SAT standard to 1029. A score of 970 is 30 points below the state average and 47 points below the national average. Included in the higher standards was a core requirement of advanced math and science courses.

The plan was scrapped, though, when it became obvious that 73 percent of the 22,929 high school graduates who received Bright Futures scholarships last year had not taken the advanced classes that a pending bill would require of future recipients, and almost 90 percent of black students who received the scholarships would not have been eligible under the proposed standards.

"Those are scary numbers," said state Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston.

Yes, it's scary that public schools are doing such a poor job of educating students. Instead of getting rid of unnecessary fluff courses and returning to a bare bones system that provide a solid foundation for future learning, the umbrella is continually widened to accommodate subpar students.

Students who would have spent their mornings in the resource room a decade ago are now guaranteed "bright futures" by a system unwilling to admit that most Americans are mediocre at best and do not warrant special treatment.

What is most disturbing is that blacks continue to flock to these programs. The latent function of the programs is to prove blacks are every bit as unintelligent and unremarkable as those in charge believe they are.

They are taking the path of least resistance. Why hire a tutor to explain trigonometry to your son if you can demand the school lower the bar?

For students who do not live in Florida, colleges have set up a system to reward below-average students. It manifests itself in the form of sports scholarships.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is the organization through which the nation's colleges and universities speak and act on athletics matters at the national level. The NCAA has a set of "standards" that incoming athletes must adhere to in order to be eligible to play sports.

Student athletes must successfully complete a core curriculum of at least 13 academic courses, and depending on the athlete's GPA, receive a minimum score on the SAT. A student with a 2.5+ GPA needs an 820, while a student with a 2.0 needs a 1010. No one would accuse those standards of being particularly stringent. Except, of course, four black students challenging the requirements and a judge who ruled in their favor.

Leatrice Shaw, one of the plaintiffs, was ranked 5th in her graduating class. On the SAT, though, she scored a paltry 810 -- placing her 10 points below eligibility. Shaw decided taking the SAT over again was not an option, so she sued.

U.S. District Judge Ronald Buckwalter determined that the requirements unfairly discriminated against black athletes. He suggested the association give more weight to grades instead of setting a minimum cut-off.

The reason the NCAA used the SAT was the level of the grade inflation in public schools is astronomical. Some standardized method was needed to gauge a student's academic potential in college, and the most accepted system we currently employ is the SAT. Ranking 5th in one's high school class is no indication that a student has what it takes to excel in college. All it demonstrates is that the student knew how to play the game, which is an important aspect of surviving in the real world but one that needs to be coupled with other skills for true success.

According to the Massachusetts-based National Center for Fair and Open Testing, 43 percent of black students who take the SATs do not meet the NCAA minimum.

"I feel more upset than anything. Being right doesn't mean anything to me," commented former Georgetown University basketball coach John Thompson, an ardent opponent of the SAT requirements, after the ruling. "What do you do for the kids who have been deprived, who needed athletics to get out of their situations?" he asked. "Change will obviously come but how do you go back and change the kids' hurt?"

What you do for the kids that have been deprived, Coach Thompson, is herd them into community colleges to brush up on their English and math skills. Few students who play sports in college will turn professional. They need something to fall back on, and if they cannot score a meager 820 on the SAT, it is obvious they need help.

If I were black in America, I would hang my head in shame that such hand-holding existed. Lowering standards to ensure unworthy students have a shot at college is a slap in the face to students who worked hard and received little in return for their efforts.

I guess Chris Rock was right when he said there existed a schism between blacks in this country. There are blacks, and then there are niggers. And if these rulings are any indication, the niggers are winning -- with spoiled white people in SUVs and genetically-engineered babies bringing up the rear.

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