Re: Fred Thompson's Questionable Taste in "Friends"

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:24:12 GMT, "       bozak"
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>"Way Back Jack" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:54:22 GMT, "       bozak"
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>>>"waybackjack" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:13:37 GMT, "       bozak"
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>>>>>"waybackjack" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:58:18 GMT, "       bozak"
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>>>>>>>>>no wonder sane white people dont want to be around you...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>whats this all about??? you feeling home sick???
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone with any common sense can look at how sub-Saharan Africans
live
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>>>>>still on that race thing huh... must be ****ed up to live a life full
of hate
>>>>>for no reason at all...
>>>>>
>>>>>i guess you want me to start arguing with you about how bad white
people are...
>>>>>
>>>>>lol... youre ****ing pitiful...
>>>>
>>>> Borderline Retarded
>>>
>>>hahahaha... if only you were close to being borderline retarded, there
would be
>>>a chance of getting you some help...
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>> It is now Blacks who commit the most atrocieties against newsgroup
morons...
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>lol... sweet... 
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Rich, Black, Flunking   
Cal Professor John Ogbu thinks he knows why rich black kids are
failing in school. Nobody wants to hear it.  
BY SUSAN GOLDSMITH

The black parents wanted an explanation. Doctors, lawyers, judges, and
insurance brokers, many had come to the upscale Cleveland suburb of
Shaker Heights specifically because of its stellar school district.
They expected their children to succeed academically, but most were
performing poorly. African-American students were lagging far behind
their white classmates in every measure of academic success:
grade-point average, standardized test scores, and enrollment in
advanced-placement courses. On average, black students earned a 1.9
GPA while their white counterparts held down an average of 3.45. Other
indicators were equally dismal. It made no sense. 
When these depressing statistics were published in a high school
newspaper in mid-1997, black parents were troubled by the news and
upset that the newspaper had exposed the problem in such a public way.
Seeking guidance, one parent called a prominent authority on minority
academic achievement. 

UC Berkeley Anthropology Professor John Ogbu had spent decades
studying how the members of different ethnic groups perform
academically. He'd studied student coping strategies at inner-city
schools in Wa****ngton, DC. He'd looked at African Americans and
Latinos in Oakland and Stockton and examined how they compare to
racial and ethnic minorities in India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, and
Britain. His research often focused on why some groups are more
successful than others. 

But Ogbu couldn't help his caller. He explained that he was a
researcher -- not an educator -- and that he had no ideas about how to
increase the academic performance of students in a district he hadn't
yet studied. A few weeks later, he got his chance. A group of parents
hungry for solutions convinced the school district to join with them
and formally invite the black anthropologist to visit Shaker Heights.
Their discussions prompted Ogbu to propose a research project to
figure out just what was happening. The district agreed to finance the
study, and parents offered him unlimited access to their children and
their homes. 

The professor and his research assistant moved to Shaker Heights for
nine months in mid-1997. They reviewed data and test scores. The team
observed 110 different cl*****, from kindergarten all the way through
high school. They conducted exhaustive interviews with school
personnel, black parents, and students. Their project yielded an
unexpected conclusion: It wasn't socioeconomics, school funding, or
racism, that accounted for the students' poor academic performance; it
was their own attitudes, and those of their parents. 

Ogbu concluded that the average black student in Shaker Heights put
little effort into schoolwork and was part of a peer culture that
looked down on academic success as "acting white."