The fact that they are letting teachers be incompetent because of diversity quotas is horrifying.
Just another example of affirmative action's basic framework proving incompatible with reality's harsh requirements in my opinion.
With Hispanic teachers, I can give their poor English skills a pass IF they are an immigrant or the child thereof and English is their second language, but that means they should study harder to pass the test again if they wish to teach.
This reminds me of an experience I had several years ago with a new math professor who had recently arrived from China. I only spent one day in the class before bowing out because of his accent and very shaky grasp of conversational English. Despite his limitations, I don't blame him for the problems he'd had. (For one thing, I could not--and still cannot--assess what his grasp on the subject matter was. I had no experience with that level of math through to that point and with only one day, there was no time to base a judgment on even if I did know what to look for.) The far more apparent problem, which had convinced me that the situation would soon be unwinnable if I proceeded with it was his problematic grasp on English. He meant well and he was trying, but he could not establish communication. I suspect if I spoke Chinese, things could have gone far differently.
Because of the obviousness of the communication issues, it was apparent that the school had almost undoubtedly judged the professor solely on his paperwork without testing how he fared in a mock classroom environment. Their sterile assessment overlooked this critical factor in organic situation of the classroom; thus, I ultimately lay blame at the feet of the school for that situation. They assigned him to a post where he could not fully cope.
For the black community, well, I hate to say this but it's their own damn fault. The black community in America has gained a strong sense of ethnic nationalism that has been intertwined with anti-intellectualism over the past few decades. Speaking and writing proper English, reading books, and doing anything remotely intellectual is seen as "acting white" and is condemned by the community as a whole, with said black intellectuals getting labeled as "sellouts" and "Uncle Toms". Things like BLM and the SJW movement have only worsened this issue.
I remember watching
this a few years ago; it wasn't exactly a newsflash of something entirely unknown to me, but it did provide some more insight into the culture that's bred this issue for decades.
Comparing the aims of blacks in America, you'll find that during World War II and up through to 1964 or so, they evidenced a "watch us do what you say we can't" sort of determination as evidenced by groups like the Tuskegee Airmen and the Montgomery bus boycotters. The blacks were told they couldn't do something (fly/successfully keep off the buses), they vowed to prove they could and would and they
did. Things have changed markedly in how they respond to these challenges since then.
Nowadays, instead of defiantly resolving to not only resist perceived wrongs but to also win out over them, blacks have essentially become defeatist. The general response to...pretty much
everything these days is that they cannot do __ because of the racism and discrimination towards them. They admit defeat and surrender before the fight even starts. The determination and eagerness to defy expectations that had served those blacks of the mid-20th century so well--resulting in many successes for their causes--looks to be long gone.
These days the blacks are simply too eager to throw pity parties for themselves to even try picking themselves up, much less succeed in doing so. To use part of a quote from Jimmy Carter, they've got to stop crying and start sweating. If results are what they truly want, it's time for them to step up. No more bullshit, no more complaining sitting down: action and meaningful accomplishments.
My bet is the latter will not be seen anytime soon.
Possibly the worst thing Cosby did by doing what he did was discrediting himself as one of the few voices in the black community willing to utter that truth.
Yes, this is highly notable--and the situation is probably worse than that even. Given that Cosby was regarded by many as being something on the order of the "model" for black men to aspire to, it's quite obvious that that label has blown up in the face of the blacks utterly.
Now detractors have a skeleton in the closet that isn't in the closet to beat the blacks over the head with and label them all rapists and such.
