"Merlin Dorfman" wrote in message
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> In ba.transportation Stan de SD wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > YOUR concept is definitely idiotic. You ignore the fact that there are
> > different levels of aptitudes, abilities, and even interest in given
areas
> > among different groups, then scream "racism" when the outcome isn't
> > "representative". We once had an administrator at a community college
who
> > had a similar mentality to yours. She decried that blacks were
> > "underrepresented" in students transferring to math and science programs
in
> > the UC and CSU systems, and one of the instructors asked her how she
> > expected 12% of the students accepted to these schools to be black when
only
> > 2-3% of the students in those programs were black to begin with? I
recall
> > that out of nearly 1000 students in the natural sciences department
> > (Chemistry, Physics, Biology) there were maybe a dozen black students -
and
> > half of those were Africans. Fact of the matter was that black students
> > simply weren't intrested in that academic track, despite the effort of
the
> > CC to offer all sorts of minority "outreach" programs to minorities.
>
> And why do you suppose that is? And do you see that as a problem,
> or should we just shrug our shoulders and move on?
I don't see that as a "problem" if there aren't a bunch of PC assholes
insisting that the reason these groups are "underrepresented" is somehow due
to "racism"...
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