Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
How, with a record like this, does Biden inoculate himself against attacks by rival candidates, especially candidates of color, in his run for the nomination?
Of 895 slots in the freshman class of Stuyvesant High in New York City, seven were offered this year to black students, down from 10 last year and 13 the year before.a
In the freshman class of 803 at The Bronx High School of Science, 12 students are black, down from last year’s 25.
Of 303 students admitted to Staten Island Technical High School, one is African-American.
According to The New York Times, similar patterns of admission apply at the other five most elite high schools in the city.
Whites and Asians are 30 percent of middle school students, but 83 percent of the freshman at Bronx High School of Science, 88 percent at Staten Island Technical and 90 percent at Stuyvesant.
What do these numbers tell us?
They reveal the racial composition of the cohort of scientists and technicians who will lead America in the 21st century. And they tell us which races will not be well represented in that vanguard.
They identify a fault line that runs through the Democratic Party, separating leftists who believe in equality of results for all races and ethnic groups, and those who believe in a meritocracy.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has expressed anger and frustration at the under-representation of blacks and Hispanics in the elite schools. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature have ignored his pleas to change the way students are admitted.
Currently, the same test, of English and math, is given to middle school applicants. And admission to the elite eight is offered to those who get the highest scores.
Moreover, Asians, not whites, are predominant.
Though 15 percent of all middle school students, Asians make up two-thirds of the student body at Stuyvesant, with 80 times as many slots as their African-American classmates.
The egalitarian wing of the Democratic Party sees this as inherently unjust. And what gives this issue national import are these factors:
First, the recent scandal where rich parents paid huge bribes to criminal consultants to get their kids into elite colleges, by falsifying records of athletic achievement and cheating on Scholastic Aptitude Tests, has caused a wave of populist resentment.
Second, Harvard is being sued for systemic reverse racism, as black and Hispanic students are admitted with test scores hundreds of points below those that would disqualify Asians and whites.
Third, Joe Biden has a history on compulsory integration dating back to the 1970s that Sen. Jesse Helms called “enlightened.”
Here are Biden’s quotes, unearthed by The Washington Post, that reflect his beliefs about forced busing for racial balance in public schools:
“The new integration plans being offered are really just quota systems to assure a certain number of blacks, Chicanos, or whatever in each school. That, to me, is the most racist concept you can come up with.
“What it says is, ‘In order for your child with curly black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin to be able to learn anything, he needs to sit next to my blond-haired, blue-eyed son.’ That’s racist!
“Who the hell do we think we are, that the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child?
“I am philosophically opposed to quota systems. They insure mediocrity.”
That was 44 years ago. While those views were the thinking of many Democrats, and perhaps of most Americans, in the mid-’70s, they will be problematic in the 2020 primaries, where African-Americans could be decisive in the contests that follow Iowa and New Hampshire.
Biden knows that just as Bernie Sanders, another white male, fell short in crucial South Carolina because of a lack of support among black voters, he, too, has a problem with that most loyal element in the Democratic coalition.
In 1991, Biden failed to rise to the defense of Anita Hill when she charged future Justice Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment. In the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was a law-and-order champion responsible for tough anti-crime legislation that is now regarded as discriminatory.
And he has a record on busing for racial balance that made him a de facto ally of Louise Day Hicks of the Boston busing case fame.
How, with a record like this, does Biden inoculate himself against attacks by rival candidates, especially candidates of color, in his run for the nomination?
One way would be to signal to his party that he has grown, he has changed, and his 2020 running mate will be a person of color. Perhaps he’ll run with a woman of color such as Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost the 2018 governor’s race in Georgia.
An ancillary benefit would be that Abrams on the ticket would help him carry Georgia, a state Donald Trump probably cannot lose and win re-election.
Wrote Axios this morning:
“Close advisers to former Vice President Joe Biden are debating the idea of packaging his presidential campaign announcement with a pledge to choose Stacey Abrams as his vice president.”
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Thanks for digging up those quotes, Pat. I certainly agreed with them back then. I still do. More so, actually. But they will surely cook this perv’s goose and Stacey (The Refrigerator) Abrams won’t be able to bail out his lily white ass.
Those stats on the ethnic breakdown of smart kids in top schools are telling also. Look at the high school valedictorians in communities where there are any amount of Asians and see if you can pronounce their names. It occurs to me that Asians may skew our future society more towards Hong Kong rather than Nigeria. A pleasant thought.
No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women
No fun, no sin, no you
No wonder it’s dark
Everyone around me’s a total stranger
Everyone avoids me like a cyclone ranger
Everyone
That’s why i’m turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese
I really think so
I’m turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese
I really think so
I’m turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese
I really think so
I’m turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese
I really think so
I’m turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese
I really think so
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I really think so
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I really think so
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Robert (QSLV)
Fuck you, white boy for talkin’ about my auntie like that and for thieving the name of a great Negro song.
Biden will not get treated with the respect and deference that he wants and believes he deserves by the rest of the democrat cohort. If he enlists Abrams everybody will question his judgement as the VP is supposed to be of a caliber that he or she can sit in the chair and provide a seamless transition. Abrams is a side show freak……
Pat covered a Lot of bases. First, does anyone know if the less than one percent Black qualifiers had parents born out of CONUS? Of the 16 percent white selected a is there any ethnic category break-down?
Second, if Lori Laughlin and hubby paid hundreds of thousands to gain admittance to USC, they were big time suckers. Just look at pictures of the 19 year-old daughter. Any college or university would give her a full scholarship and no quid pro quo from parent’s needed.
Third, all Joe needs to do to prevail in a general election is revive the NYT revealed and revieled quotes with an action plan.
STACY is logical VP, by gender and color. KAMALA is too vain to ride behind. ELIZABETH is DNA damaged goods. Kristin is a simple blond not a POC, Alexandra is too young. Beto acknowkdged he is both wrong gender and complexion; he does play a great Hispanic on TV. CORRY MIGHT make the cut, if he comes out of the closet. Checks two or even three boxes.
He has to pick an ugly woman because if she were the least bit attractive he wouldn’t be able to keep his paws off of her.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/03/22/stacey-abrams-nonprofit-slapped-with-irs-complaint-735714
off topic,but about left wing violence–
a colin flaherty podcast,50 minutes, about black violence in the public schools–
http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/6/2/8/6284e11d6fad3af1/TEACHERS_UNDER_ATTACK_IN_CHOCOLATE_CITIES._Schools_are_War_Zones_say_parents.mp3?c_id=37552421&cs_id=37552421&expiration=1553271558&hwt=5adee7b650ff3614561538b53ad1328b
not about biden directly but about all democratic potus candidates,from the babylon bee–
“che guevara announces 2020 potus run,immediately denounced as too moderate”
https://babylonbee.com/news/reanimated-che-guevara-announces-2020-run-quickly-criticized-as-too-moderate
What do the following have in common? ——- white people, bananas, water shortages, climate change, Almond Joy, broccoli, deforestation, Deforest Kelly, Mary Poppins, Dick van Dyke, used cars, RiNS, Uzbekistan, Christians, and Webster’s Dictionary?
They are all inexorably connected in Undilutable’s upcoming article.
rins is not a racist,he’s just denying his inuit heritage–
lol
Geeze I get no respect around here..
Getting lumped in with all that lot!
but I would like to bang Mary Poppins..
if I could request one edit it would be this.
I have an aversion to broccoli…
It makes my pee smell when I piss..
not much grew where my ancestors are from…
and thanks for sticking up for me Red..
Good to know their are still freunds out there
who have my back
when under attack
Gotta go put boots on now..
Spring is finally to be seen
and yes folks its raining again
Good news is
no tax for me
p.s.
Oh yeah I plan on leaving everyone in the dust for March Madness.
Especially my buddy Stucky!
I know what the headline meant when I first read it, but nonetheless I can’t unsee it. I could puke lol
Stacy Abrams is a sexy mulatta,I’d hit her in a heartbeat.
Question is, would she fuck a 5 foot tall beaner with a 3″ dick?
Heck, I can’t even get some play from my old lady, I ain’t trying to get rejected by your old lady, Rdawg.
Not talking about you, of course.
I wouldn’t touch you Dawgie,we coyotes no touchie mutt dogs.
That’s a lame comeback, doppler. At least make it funny.