Kicking. Squealing.
1. Speaking of murderous football players, I’d never heard of Robert Rozier who admitted to killing seven “white devils” back in the 1980s. Rozier only played six games in the NFL for the (then) St. Louis Cardinals. He fell out of the league and then joined a Black Nationalist outfit headed by Yahweh bin Yahweh. Rozier was granted leniency for testifying against Yahweh who was also put in prison for RICO infractions but eventually died outside the joint. So a black guy killed seven whites and nobody involved went to jail for the rest of their lives.
2. I was unaware of this. The Wall Street Journal provides cross-tabs of FBI data on homicides for individual states and the whole country for the years 2000 through 2010. Race, gender, age, relationship, circumstance, weapon – all of these tabs are included. Very useful.
3. Kay Hymnowitz knocks down Philip Cohen’s piece which delinked single parenthood and violent crime.
4. Insurance premiums expected to increase dramatically under the “affordable” care act.
5. Someone actually asks and then discussed whether or not the Christmas song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is “rapey”. GTFO.
6. A discussion at The Atlantic on the blurry line between boyhood and manhood.
7. Dr. Ibram Rogers University at Albany – SUNY writes on the racial bias of the SAT:
For me, grossly and consistently unequal outcomes almost always prove racist intent. The annual outcome of Whites out-scoring Blacks on the SAT demonstrates intent, proves the test is biased. I do not need evidence that shows racist intent. The outcome, for me, is enough.
Only someone who does put “Dr.” in front of their name – Ph.D. or not – would write something like that. Rogers does present an argument (someone else’s – that of Jay Rosner, a white guy) I’d not heard of before. Rosner has claimed that all questions that favored blacks in the SAT pre-test or experimental test section never made it to the big test. All big test questions “favored” white students. I’d be interested in learning how whites who scored poorly on the test overall performed on the questions that blacks outperformed whites on. Or whether there supposedly is class bias on the SAT. Do the poor outscore the rich on any questions?
A funny thing in the blurb linked above, Rosner writes “I have identified several other examples, including a black preference SAT math question, that were rejected.”
A single, lonely math question. And it seems we’re talking a small sample number of examples which comes nowhere near filling the SAT score gap.
8. I wonder if this will get the Kanazawa treatment.
“I do not need evidence” should be the motto of blank-slate leftists everywhere.
8: No. Kanazawa claimed it was inherent (to some degree, it assuredly is). These people are toeing the social-constructivist, We-Are-Not-Animals route. How evil society is! We should reform it!
They’ll be left alone.
#7: Taking this at face value, there are a couple of ways that this could happen (which Steve Sailer has pointed out) – 1) make the question so easy that everyone gets it right, or 2) make the question so hard that it’s essentially a guess.
In the SAT (as opposed to the ACT), a wrong answer hurts you more than a non-answer. So for a question that’s nearly impossible, someone with extremely high self-regard or someone who didn’t check the test’s basic rules is more likely to “guess” a correct answer because they will actually hazard a guess rather than leaving it blank.
But ironically for Dr. Rogers, the best outcome for us is that he is absolutely correct and The Gap is closed after all – it’s just a matter of acknowledging it! So we can now stop wasting billions of dollars on closing it! Yay! Fist-bump?
Dr. Ibram Rodgers once again proves to me most African Americans are incapable of logical thought.
I’ll put the ball back in his court and tell him to create a test in which he believes black Americans will excel at.
Insurance premiums expected to increase dramatically under the “affordable” care act.
This is hardly surprising since the real purpose of Obamacare is to put private insurance out of business. Which it will do. First step is to make insurance unaffordable for as many as possible, thereby creating a wave of anger which will not be properly directed at Democrats, but easily deflected towards “greedy insurance companies.”
In any case, insurance companies will be driven out of the medical business as Obamacare essentially makes it impossible for them to run profitably. Ho hum, another day in the Socialist Paradise.
Umm. Back in ’95, insurance companies were profitable spending 95+% of their revenues on healthcare payouts. I’m not sure how the current ~85% (or the 80% floor set by the ACA) is a reasonable shift.
Insurance is a natural monopoly, and, like utilities, probably does need at least some level of government oversight. Part of the current problem is that people paying in to Medicare and Medicaid do so based on income, not on risk of payout. We can either go full-public or full-private, but doing both will just compound the incentivization of poor maintenance of health.
Personally, I think the likelihood that Medicare and Medicaid could be turned into a national healthcare system is pretty low, but if we wanted a fully privatized system, we’d also have to overturn EMTALA, and that dog won’t hunt.
I’ll put the ball back in his court and tell him to create a test in which he believes black Americans will excel at.
Other than the 100 meter dash you mean?
Re: #7
How the fuck is math a racial or social construct?
#8 So, these people have rediscovered Rushton’s rule. I’d guess that they don’t cite Rushton.
The WSJ link is pretty cool for a quick data search and even has Joe Mantegna doing an instructional voice over. Quick color of crime type articles can be based on this data. This is the first place I’ve seen Hispanics separated for crime stats.
Convincing a woman to have sex with you is rape? Ridiculous. I wish some senator would attack the NFL and the NBA for their racist ways. Racism is just like feminism in that any disparity that is beneficial to white men is discrimination but any disparity that has minorities or women being the beneficiary is because they’re just better at it which if you take it to it’s logical conclusion is “whites/men and blacks/women are exactly the same except for the things blacks/women are better at” suggesting that white men are always inferior.
Quick color of crime type articles can be based on this data. This is the first place I’ve seen Hispanics separated for crime stats.
This application is racist. It will soon be removed.
That WSJ database is going to take some heat for putting race at the front of the statistics. I wonder if that was intentional.
The “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” dissection is becoming an annual tradition.
@peterike – Thoughtcrime by WSJ! I’d like to see a WSJ article that a majority of murders in the US are committed by Democrats.
Dr. Ibram Rogers…. heh heh.
Dr. Ibram H. Rogers is an assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University at Albany – SUNY. He began his career as an assistant professor of African American history at SUNY College at Oneonta. Advised by Ama Mazama, he earned his doctoral degree in African American Studies from Temple University in 2010.
Nothing says “brilliant academic” like a degree in African American Studies. His blog is sadly devoid of any comments. I’d suggest dropping him a line, but I suspect his blog comments are moderated (free thinking Progressives always moderate).
Reading a small portion of his blog chatter I find he has that oh-so-annoying way of talking so common among black academics. And needless to say, he writes a huge pile of blank-slate nonsense.
The sad truth is Whites receive more racial preferences in admissions than Blacks, which is why they are over-represented in higher education. Why else would they be over-represented, particularly at the highly selected institutions? Why else would there be a racial achievement gap?
Why else indeed, Doctor Rogers. He then dismisses all of reality with this blithe turn of his hand.
I am sure some would argue Whites are naturally superior students, not they [SIC] receive favorable treatment in the K-12 system (and the admissions process). But that is a racist argument.
That takes care of that.
#8: It won’t get the kanazawa treatment because it’s heavily couched in social constructivist gibberish. Here’s a thought: Maybe people perceive asian men least masculine and black men most masculine because… it’s true? Heaven forfend! Stereotypes don’t materialize out of thin air. If they did that you’d see a more random distribution of competing stereotypes. But understanding that would require logic, and logic is unacceptable in modern academia-speak.
Robert Rozier is in prison for other stuff, though. He will probably spend the rest of his life there.
I can remember seeing that Yahweh ben Yahweh stuff on public access TV down here in Atlanta as late as 10 years ago. His followers we making shows and plastering his photo everywhere.
peterike, you missed the best part. ibram makes explicit exactly the question to be answered:
“Is it really better to be Black than White when applying for a college that uses affirmative action?”
Then talks about how shitty black k-12 education is for the rest of the piece.
When making absurd arguments you gotta be vague 100% of the time. Any accidental explicitness is deadly.
odds ibram is a pseudonym for eric holder?
People of Color have amny children
white people do not have children
white women crave Black Men
GAME OVER
I actually left a couple of quick responses to “Dr.” Rogers article at the link. I don’t expect him to respond to them, because he doesn’t appear to be that bright. But it’s always good to let people like that realize someone, somewhere will counter their bullshit. I’m sure at the University, this man has never once encountered serious opposition to anything he’s said or wrote.
I’m angry that the SAT is so clearly designed to favor asians and jews over white gentiles. Obviously a conspiracy.
“Rosner has claimed that all questions that favored blacks in the SAT pre-test or experimental test section never made it to the big test. All big test questions “favored” white students. ”
“Chillin is to homeboy as laying pipe is to: A. my job B. my friends. C. my bitch. D. All of the above.”
“Chillin is to homeboy as laying pipe is to: A. my job B. my friends. C. my bitch. D. All of the above.”
Analogies have been removed from the SAT for being too logical… I mean too racist.
Newsflash for Dr. Rogers – The SAT OVERPREDICTS black performance in first year GPA. Understand what that means. A black student with the same SAT scores as a white student will perform worse in their first year GPA than the white student. Combine this with lowered admission standards via affirmative action and you get the mess we currently see with black student under-performance. A rational approach would be to set the SAT bar higher for black students in order to equalize outcomes in first year GPA.
How the fuck is math a racial or social construct?
Check out my series of posts on Anti-Racist Math instruction in Newton, MA.
A word problem on converting grams to ounces might skew in favor of black youths.