Test Score Gaps in California Increasingly Driven by Race, Not Class

[PullMyFinger]

Originally Posted by michiganmoon

People are still confusing what equality in our Declaration of Independence means.

It does NOT mean that I am as equally fast as our Olympic sprinters like Tyson Gay.

It does NOT mean that I am as equally talented at Basketball as Lebron James.

It does NOT mean that I am equally as skilled at playing QB as Tom Brady.

It does NOT mean that I equally understand science as well as David Baltimore who researches viruses and cancer at CIT.

It does NOT mean that I equally understand history of the Civil War as well as James McPherson of Princeton University.

It does NOT mean that I am as intelligent as Dave Remine of MENSA.

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It DOES mean that I have the same political rights as everyone mentioned above.

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I have already explained this simple concept over and over...it really isn't that hard to grasp.

It does mean that you have the assumption of equality from birth however.

Your life is God's gift to you. What you make of it is your gift to God. And in America, you can make it anything you want.

But liberals will automatically believe you are disadvantaged from birth if you aren't white and that is the fact.

[The Dark Enlightenment]

Asian Americans average 15 or 20 points higher on IQ tests than African Americans, but this doesn't imply the things you seem to think it does. It doesn't mean all Asians are smarter than all blacks. There are still millions of black people with higher IQs than the average Asian. And, assuming you got into UCLA on merit and not AA, there is no reason to think that the Asians in your program would have more ability than you. Univesities more or less sort people by IQ, and students within in a single department of a single school should be of roughly equal ability. If the Asians in your program were much smarter, they would likely have taken a harder major, or gone to Berkeley, or Stanford, or some other higher ranking university.

Originally Posted by jmac1

All I know is, I never failed to meet or beat any other race academically while attending UCLA; that was when I realized all of this "they are smarter" jazz was hot garbage. I also know I performed better academically when money wasn't an issue, which it was at times when I was attending college.

I remember when we had TA sessions full of Asian, Whites, and Indians (Hindies), I use to tell myself, "damn, I thought they were supposed to be smarter than me......."

I think I am of average intelligence.