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“We don’t do as well on these multiple-choice tests,” said Capt. Otis Jordan, president of the Houston Black Firefighters Association. Jordan and the HBFA are not part of the suit. “I compare fighting a fire, riding an apparatus, to playing football. Your best athlete might not be the straight-A student.”

During standardized tests, minorities are also vulnerable to performance anxieties that stem from cultural stereotypes, Foster said. The result, he said, is that historically marginalized groups often do worse on tests, especially “high stakes” tests that affect one’s livelihood or future life path.

mvscal wrote:

“We don’t do as well on these multiple-choice tests,” said Capt. Otis Jordan

The world needs ditch diggers, too.

Papa Willie wrote:I think they're going to find it a LOT harder to whine and bitch now since there's one in the WH.

Blitzkrieg wrote: Fuck that. From here on in it's going to be handout-mania. It's going to be like Trading Places where Eddie invites all of his friends from the ghetto over and they steal everything that isn't nailed down.

campinfool wrote:How the hell are they going to fight a fire. every Nog I know immediately throws a rack of pork ribs on when they see a fire going.

Screw_Michigan wrote:Rack the return of the galloping penis.

Papa Willie wrote:I think they're going to find it a LOT harder to whine and bitch now since there's one in the WH.

Ana Ng wrote:We should just surrender all of our white women.

If that doesn't even things up, nothing will.

Van wrote:Methinks it's a matter of choice...cultural choice.

Van wrote:Smuggled into the country, without a dime to their names.

Van wrote:... standardized tests ...

Van wrote:Quit dancing.

Explain how blacks still should require lower testing standards for themselves, vs everyone else.

Explain how it's correct that they feel the need to ask for lowered standards while first generation immigrants kicking ass in our culture don't.

Explain it however you want. Do so, with no more dancing, or we're through here.

Van wrote: I'm definitely not a racist ...

mvscal wrote: n...igger

mvscal wrote:... n...iggers ...

CNN -- Years ago, a frustrated boy with a violent temper attacked his own mother with a hammer (his older brother restrained him). He stabbed a schoolmate over a dispute about which radio station to listen to; the knife blade luckily hit a belt buckle.

That brash teen today is a world-renowned neurosurgeon and the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Dr. Benjamin S. Carson made medical history in 1987 by performing the first successful surgery that separated twins conjoined at the back of the head. He also became known for his expertise in pediatric brain tumors and methods of controlling seizures. In 2008, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, this country's highest civilian honor.

Having come up from the streets of Detroit, Michigan, to receiving an award at the White House, Carson, 56, works to spread his gospel of education and hard work to motivate others.

He and his wife, Candy, started a scholarship foundation to help children with strong academics and humanitarian qualities to pay for college.

"I have at least 100,000 letters from kids and adults from around the world ... telling me how it changed their lives," Carson said. Their tales of transformations and redemption inspire him to keep talking about educational empowerment and overcoming adversity, he said.

An obstacle is a hurdle, and "you jump over it," Carson said. "Every time you see a hurdle, you jump over it, and it strengthens you for the next one. And if that's the case, you lead a victorious life, because whatever comes before you, you know you're going to get around it."

Carson was raised in Detroit, majored in psychology at Yale University and attended medical school at the University of Michigan, where he studied neurosurgery.

Carson's life has been told through plays, books and movies, including a TNT made-for-TV movie called "Gifted Hands," which airs Saturday. (TNT is part of Turner Broadcasting, which also owns CNN.) The biopic stars Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. as Carson.

"I think he's an angel, a gift from God," Gooding said. "He has touched a lot of people's lives."

Carson holds more than 50 honorary doctorates and hundreds of other awards. He's fortunate, he acknowledges, but this doctor does not believe in luck.

"I always say you make your own luck by being prepared," he said.

His mom pushed him hard.

Sonya Carson "would not accept the victim mentality. She wouldn't let us accept the victim mentality. No excuses. She didn't make excuses, and she didn't accept excuses," Carson said.

She turned off the TV, sent Carson and his brother to the library and made them write weekly book reports. Meanwhile, she worked several jobs to support her two sons. She is now 80 and lives with Carson in Baltimore, Maryland.

When Carson was young, he was influenced by stories about Booker T. Washington, a former slave who taught himself to read and later advised presidents, and the biblical character Joseph, who persevered though his brothers sold him into slavery.

"Those kinds of stories had an impact on me and helped me to believe it's not where you started, it's where you end that counts. And you have a whole lot to do with that," he said.

"Everybody has problems. They just come in different forms. If that problem for you becomes a containing fence, then you become a victim. Once you think you're a victim, you are one, and you're not going anywhere."

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"My message is that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you," Carson said. "Not somebody else, and not the environment. If you have a normal brain, you're capable of incredible things."

"Everybody has problems. They just come in different forms. If that problem for you becomes a containing fence, then you become a victim. Once you think you're a victim, you are one, and you're not going anywhere."

mvscal wrote:Exposing you as a takeless, mentally deficient fucktard is as easy as pointing out the simple fact that I'm not Van.

Care to take a stab at explaining why n...iggers are such pathetic fuck ups everywhere they can be found?

Blitzkrieg wrote:7 black Houston firefighters sue, say city exam biased

“We don’t do as well on these multiple-choice tests,” said Capt. Otis Jordan, president of the Houston Black Firefighters Association. Jordan and the HBFA are not part of the suit. “I compare fighting a fire, riding an apparatus, to playing football. Your best athlete might not be the straight-A student.”

WTF?

and...

During standardized tests, minorities are also vulnerable to performance anxieties that stem from cultural stereotypes, Foster said. The result, he said, is that historically marginalized groups often do worse on tests, especially “high stakes” tests that affect one’s livelihood or future life path.

So black people are chokers? Are these people we want fighting fires?

Blitzkrieg wrote:

"Everybody has problems. They just come in different forms. If that problem for you becomes a containing fence, then you become a victim. Once you think you're a victim, you are one, and you're not going anywhere."

IMHO, this sums up the entire black experience in this country.