Here's your test:

Almost Black: The True Story of How I Got Into Medical School By Pretending to Be Black

"You don't resolve discrimination by discriminating. You simply don't."

Of course, that's not the point. The goal is the creation and exercise of political power.

That book looks really good, actually!

Not sure if you're a fan (my wife is), but the book's author is the brother of Mindy Kaling, from "The Office" and "The Mindy Project."

"The goal is the creation and exercise of political power."

That, and to create scapegoat groups. We saw it in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and countless times in European history. Being able to blame all their failures on scapegoats allows the politically correct to avoid introspection.

Why, gasp!, not having group quotas (diversity, my bad) would lead to Capitalism because RACIAL based colleges would open up to fill a demand.

You know, black colleges catering to "colored people", white colleges catering to privileged racists, and women colleges (separate races (but very safe from rapists) as well) and so on. You know the separate but equal but better this time around.

Employers would still have to have "diversity" hiring but capitalism usually lets that stuff die a natural death (except for government jobs).

So 30 years later someone simply mimicked (without needing to darken his skin) Soul Man? Simply proved what anyone who's not blind already knew. Big C. Thomas Howell fan I guess?

The thing is, Asian-Americans are not doing anything African-Americans cannot do. Focus on success and meeting high standards. Emphasize academics over athletics at home. Celebrate and attempt to emulate the academic success of others in your group. Discuss academic subjects at the dinner table. Populate the house with books and encourage reading.

Dr. Ben Carson's mother did that and she was a functionally illiterate single mother living in the ghetto and working three jobs. Her sons became a neurosurgeon and a mechanical engineer. It can be done.

Amy: "You don't resolve discrimination by discriminating."

Sadly, many on the left just do not understand that. And they won't understand that until more and more folks push back. (One reason for Trump's victory is that he DID push back)

For instance, MTV did a video which was suppose to be a "New Year's Resolution for white guys." But, it was basically a racist and sexist rant against white men. They got so many thumbs down on the video that they removed it - reposted it and still got more thumbs down that they then removed it completely.

I would hope that they learned that stereotyping any group is wrong; but, more likely, they think others just don't get "sophisticated" humor. If you don't think like them; well, in their mind you're just stupid then.

Universities sadly believe in the "equality of outcomes" fallacy. That is, failure of all people to be equally rich is proof of racism. If some people do better than others and you can identify them by a racial grouping (white, jewish, oriental) then those people must be part of a conspiracy somehow, and it is justified to impose a quota. There is necessarily a quota against whites also compared to blacks (what else is affirmative action?). Thomas Sowell has some great critiques of this fallacy, among them that Nigerian immigrants do very well in the US. A different culture seems to matter. Clearly such immigrants are even blacker than the average black in the US, so this is a good test of discrimination-as-cause-of-all-problems.

Have we ever seen Mindy Kaling's tits?

If you wanted the world run by a celebrity woman, would you choose Mindy Kaling, Lena Dunham, or Eva Green?

I'd choose Eva Green.

Sheezus, I should have checked that link first.

I mean, I totally stand by the sentiment I was trying to express, but had no idea how eagerly Google was going to answer the inquiry.

The Big Gee really came through for us here.

"The thing is, Asian-Americans are not doing anything African-Americans cannot do."

Yes, they are, so long as you address them as a class. As a class, Asians have more skull volume than Africans. Of course, some African groups also have physically larger brains than others. We routinely ignore that there is no "one" African; they are treated that way in the USA for political gain.

In processor architecture, the more transistors, the faster the processor. Even as the argument blazes on about heredity vs. environment (even as DNA changes are observed as a result of environment more quickly than inheritance would convey alone), bigger remains better.

The proof is everywhere in academia.

So, rad, if you have a small skull, you cannot discuss academic topics at the dinner table? You cannot emphasize academics over athletics? You cannot buy books and read them? You cannot try?

I said nothing about results, just effort. And even small-skulled people can make the effort. And they can better themselves through that effort, even if all they can achieve is a small step in the right direction.

I think colleges (private ones, at least) should be cut some slack on this. They've always used criteria beyond grades and test scores to decide who to admit. Schools like Harvard and MIT would take someone from a small Midwestern town over someone from New York City with slightly better scores because they wanted a geographically diverse student body. If they now want a racially diverse student body, I'd say that's their call.

(It would be nice if they had a more politically diverse faculty, of course.)

"I said nothing about results, just effort."

Ah, yes - The Little Train That Could™.

Effort isn't results. Results are what effort yields.

Equality is only found before the law, never in ability. Consult not only academia, but your local sports channel.

You can place bets there, with your own money.

I think colleges (private ones, at least) should be cut some slack on this.

Thats fine, so long as they never take any government money from any source, be it student loans, or tax breaks on their real property and purchases, or deferrals on the capital gains taxes for the money their endowments generate

Rex: "Schools like Harvard and MIT would take someone from a small Midwestern town over someone from New York City>"

You got proof of that?

I've never heard of "geographic" diversity in colleges. If anything, places like the Ivy league tend to draw from the Northeast.

As for cutting them slack? why? They ALL take government money in the form of tax deductions and student loans.

Equality is only found before the law, never in ability. Consult not only academia, but your local sports channel. ~ Radwaste at December 22, 2016 12:04 PM

True. But not making the effort and expecting equal results is insanity. Until African-Americans adjust "their" culture to include making efforts toward academic excellence, the results will continue to be failure, ignorance, and racial resentment.

And some of that adjustment includes copying the Asian-American culture's high regard for education and academic achievement. It includes populating one's house with books and reading them.

African-American culture used to respect education, demanding equal opportunity to pursue an education; and pursuing it with a vengeance. Modern African-American culture regards academic effort as "acting white" and denigrates it.

Opportunity and effort will effect a change to the academic status of African-Americans, to whatever degree. This is not a little engine fantasy. With a strenuous application of effort, African-Americans can change their failure rates and their academic outcomes.

History is replete with intelligent and accomplished intellectual African-Americans. Modern culture refuses to recognize the role making a sustained effort plays in achievement.

The irony is that African-Americans who immigrated from Africa or the Caribbean generally show higher regard for education, greater effort in obtaining an education, and greater results from said education. It ain't a racial thing, it's a cultural thing.

I've never heard of "geographic" diversity in colleges. If anything, places like the Ivy league tend to draw from the Northeast.

For all I know they don't do it anymore, but when I was in college (late 60's) it was common knowledge. Yes, the Ivies (and other top colleges like MIT) drew heavily from the Northeast, but that's where most of their applicants came from. They went out of their way to recruit kids from other areas to balance out the geographic distribution a little.