Re: JSH: United States, key here?

JSH wrote:
Having a major discoverer from one of the disadvantaged races in this
country could help create a shift to education as key--versus hoping
for a long-shot in entertainment industries. And would remove the
silent argument that many in certain groups here use amongst
themselves that "blacks" in this country are actually inferior which
explains their current difficulties, even if it's not politically
correct to say so.

A bigger help would be to increase the wages of education-related professions relative to entertainment-related professions.

If you don't think that certain racial groups are inferior then

I don't think so. The proper way to put it, IMO, is that there are striking cultural differences among different races that can explain large parts of achievement gaps.

problems they are having today can only be partly explained by
historical imbalances, which goes to that other argument that racism
was a problem of the past, so it has nothing to do with today's
members of advantaged groups, but what if they are lying?

What is the antecedent of the last `they' ? Grammatically, it would be racial groups, but the sentence makes no sense like that.

I still like to point out that story where I had the highest SAT of my
graduating class but the school changed the rules to give the award
for that achievement to a white kid, as an example of how cheating in
certain areas can lead to unfair advantages.

What story?

Really nasty kind of evil, but one I understand which is why I've
understood so well the rather vicious personal attacks many of you
have leveled at me.

Race never entered my mind until responding to this post. The same is probably true of 99% of the people in this newsgroup.

You see, others were there before you. I know your kind from past
experience.

In my youth, I was essentially put through psychological torture by some Hispanics. Therefore, according to your logic, all Hispanics are wicked people who enjoy putting people through psychological torture. That's not true -- I know several counterexamples to that logic.

I believe most of what you are saying is a form of expectation bias: you had some bad experiences, internally classified on race, and then proceeded to avoid members of the same race as the initial perpetrators. When similar experiences happen but race cannot be determined, you begin to suggest that race is at issue. That is making you the racist, and not us.

So they dream of being nobles who don't have to work, don't even
really have to learn anything, but you just go to parties mostly and
rule. Look at George W. Bush as an example of the dream fulfilled.

To them it is only about blood.

The problem with quoting politics as proof as class is that politics is skewed by the fact that the most successful politicians need financing, and a large fortune and well-known name can often help. There are presidents for whom an argument of class could not be made -- look up the family of Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, or William McKinley if you don't believe me.

A lot of what you say is that your failure is motivated by non-mathematical reasons. People have asked you to factor numbers that *they* have picked and have been ignored by you. If your surrogate factoring method worked as well as you say it does, you would have no reason to ignore those numbers. Similarly, people have asked for clarifications; they have been ignored. People have also pointed out that there are flaws in your method; they have been ignored by you again. Instead, you start attacking people who attack your method by claiming that it is all racial bigotry.

There is no doubt in my mind that you have just ignored my entire post. Prove me wrong.
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