Originally Posted by Alexus
That's quite a generalization. Certainly you don't mean ALL black men. I'm going to assume that you mean there are not enough black men who are interested in high academic achievement to offset the negative effects of those who are not. It's probably fair to say there are more who are not interested in getting a good education than those who are. Let's talk about those who are high academic achievers.
White kids from the suburbs grow up sheltered. They have few if any obstacles in their path. They don't have to learn to respect or get to know the intricacies and perculiarities of other races with the exception of some asian and indians. More than likely their parents are together and BOTH gainfully employed for life. Their parents went to college as did their grandparents. These spoiled kids never go without. All the resources they need are at their disposal. Their parents can afford to buy them laptops, equipped with the latest technology and provide high speed internet. Their schools are well-equipped and well-funded. They are the priority and they know it! These brats never face any form of discrimination and just cruise through their existence, thinking that they hit a home run when in reality "they were born on third base." All their teachers look like them. All the books they read have pictures of people who look like them. They look at TV, and every program or ad is centered around people who look like them. They go to the grocery store, the mall, the doctor's office, and every magazine cover features somebody who looks like them. They cruise into Marquette, a place for them. Just after midnight on Saturday morning, after yet another Friday night drinking binge, you will find many of these girls doing such things as: vomiting on the dorm room wall, urinating in the alley, spitting, farting and belching loudly, fighting, yelling, screaming, cursing, crying, vandalizing, trashing the streets, stealing, and yes, sleeping with total strangers and each other. The guys are equally as bad. Many of these girls have been forbidden to associate with black men, but they frequently throw themselves at them in secrecy during floor parties while the lights are turned low and everybody is drunk. In the morning when they realize that they slept with a black man, they are deeply ashamed, bordering on mental disturbance. Their true nature? They get through college with the utmost of support in the most accomodating of environments. They're accustomed to studying and doing so in college is just an extension of what they did in high school. Life is easier for them, no worries. Later in life, you find the women in therapy because they can't cope and the men struggling through divorce and mid-life crisis.
Black people are a proud people. Dynamic, explosive, intense, talented, intellectual, self-abusing, enraged, exceptionally humorous and entertaining, compassionate, sensitive, supremely gifted athletically, insightful, perceptive, and exceptionally creative are some of the words and phrases I would use to characterize black people. If more would refocus, this society would be transformed. However, a black person who gains high academic achievement has to work harder than the white counterpart. It's likely that he or she comes from a broken home. This person watched his parents try to maintain their dignity even as doors closed for them due to racial discrimination by the multitude of ignorant whites who exist in the industry. It is infuritating to witness the injustice, especially when you see that it has broken down your parents or caused them discomfort. This doesn't create great hopes for your own future. Almost on faith you have to believe that achieving high academic achievement is going to reward you with the type of opportunities that escaped your parents. You don't have a laptop because your parents can't afford one and the only access you have to the internet is at school. You have to share the connection with 30 other students. Your school is not funded as well as the suburban schools, lending credence to the perception that you are not expected to succeed or go far despite your efforts. It is also more likely that you live in a community that is not safe and you continually live with distractions. Fewer of your classmates are going on to college. Some have lives so stressful and difficult that prison would be a better life. You must deal with people of all races, people who couldn't afford to move to the suburbs. If you overcome these obstacles or those like them and make it into Marquette, you are EXCEPTIONAL. However, the spoiled white kids treat you as though you don't deserve to be there. You are shunned at every turn and treated like an idiot. When required to work in groups, the white kids are condescending. You are isolated, yet proudly and with the greatest of determination, you push on. You have more resolve. When you graduate, you have traveled longer and your road has been harder. You realize that you are simply better. To graduate on the same day with those spoiled brats is internally liberating. If you chose the right major, one that is highly valued by society. It will also be financially and professionally rewarding as well.
So it is not as simple as you say. It is EASIER to get an A in the suburbs. Blacks who have been accepted into Marquette are given a free ride because they are EXCEPTIONAL, and don't you ever forget that. Every black person you see on Marquette's campus today is exceptional. Suffice it to say that admission into the university is only the BEGINNING of another round of problems for the black person! You have to dig deeper, understand the dynamics. Strive to become more sophisticated about such things.
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