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Winston C. Extavour, Ph.D.
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June 4, 2014
Part 1: The Achievement Gap
Albert Einstein is said to have defined “insanity” as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Considering the unshakeable fidelity with which African-Americans have gone to the polls over the past 40 years to cast their votes overwhelmingly for the Democrat Party, with precious little to show in return, this famous witticism is, undoubtedly, a propos.
The following statistical sample generally reflects the quality of life being experienced in black communities today, thanks to established Democrat control: (1) 70% of children born to unwed mothers are in the African-American community; (2) in 2003-2004, for every 100 bachelor’s degrees conferred on black men, 200 were conferred on black women; (3) 54% of African-Americans graduate from high school compared to more than 75% for white and Asian students; (4) on average, African-American 12th grade students read at the same level as white 8th grade students.
Black TV commentator Tavis Smiley, when asked, offered this candid verdict. “Five years”, he said, “after President Obama was first elected, African-Americans are worse off, judged by every single leading indicator”; and Nathan Glazer, distinguished sociology professor emeritus at Harvard University, characterized the 70 percentile of African-American children born to unmarried women as “tragic”, in that “high out-of-wedlock birthrates mean a constantly renewed cohort of adolescent males without male parenting, which means disorderly neighborhood and schools”.
In light of such dismal socio-economic conditions, combined with no real signs of any movement towards drastic improvement, one cannot help but be mystified that the black community is not up in arms with vociferous calls for their leaders to change the failed policies of the 40-year Democrat experiment. Instead, black leaders seem immune from criticism from indulgent supporters, while they suffer their deprivations in relative silence.
