By A Texas Reader
thursday, June 22, 2023 at 11:56:55 a.m. edt
"full-ride scholarships for some first-generation college students will be life-changing
"First generation students."
Code for "American (sic) offspring of wetbacks."
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Might as well give scholarships to rocks then.Of course any blacks that are around would TAKE the rocks who have scholarships and hit some White or Asian student over the head with them.
--GRA
"During the clash, the suspect plunged a knife into the victim’s stomach, police said."
GRA:The amazing thing is this qualified the perp to a Texas scholarship in abdominal surgery--which he will use after a couple years in the joint.
--GRA
"texas education officials"
The article mentions an academic from Rice Univ, which is in Texas. But it is private. So saying "texas education officials" is a bit misleading b/c it seems to have little or nothing to do with the state of Texas, per se (?). Only geographically.
It also mentions KIPP:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIPP
Which seems to be a national association of "charter schools".
"The success of Houston's young Black and Hispanic people will impact the overall success of the city of Houston. That's according to demographics expert and founding director of Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Dr. Stephen Klineberg, who has spent decades studying the Houston population."
Klineberg, hmm.
Yep:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Klineberg
"Born in 1940 to a Jewish family in New York City, New York, Klineberg earned his B.A. in psychology from Haverford College in 1961 before going on to graduate school at Harvard University."
Seems to be a specific program:
"The Questbridge Program is aimed at helping outstanding high school seniors who are economically disadvantaged gain admission and full four-year scholarships to some of the most selective colleges and universities in the country."
So who or what organization is behind Questbridge? A thoughtful person may want to look into that. But I won't hold my breath.
There are of course some NAM students who could do well at university and may need and appreciate some help getting there.
But the two main problems this whole issue should remind people of are 1) there are not nearly enough of them compared to Whites and Asians, and so the "browning of America" is a demographic disaster, and 2) it is for all practical purposes impossible for political reasons to specifically help poor or disadvantaged white students in the same way.
https://www.questbridge.org/about
"About QuestBridge
Founded in 1994, QuestBridge is a national nonprofit based in Palo Alto, California that connects the nation’s most exceptional, low-income youth with leading colleges and opportunities. By working with these students — beginning in high school through college to their first job —QuestBridge aims to increase the percentage of talented low-income students attending the nation’s best colleges and to support them to achieve success in their careers and communities."
More details about its history:
https://www.questbridge.org/about/history
Not sure if when it started it was specifically racial then or not. But today it does seem to be specifically about helping non-whites. So it is probably more or less fair to say it is a modern alchemy project, trying to turn lead into gold. Won't work to any significant degree.
If you do a simple search for "Questbridge program", they are affiliated and work with many major universities.
Stanford Univ is in Palo Alto, and it appears what is now Questbridge was started several decades ago by people affiliated with Stanford. America had a far larger white population fraction back then.
Most of them won't even get through the first year. Or will need a lot of remedial courses no credit for graduation.
"Most of them won't even get through the first year. Or will need a lot of remedial courses no credit for graduation."
Generally "most" means a majority. So more than half.
Hard to say. If you read their material, they are selective. You have to apply and go thru a screening process. There is probably also on-campus assistance provided by the Questbridge program.
Look, the truth is that there are NAMs capable of succeeding at selective schools. I knew a black physics major at UC Berkeley (his black mother was a HS math teacher).
But there just aren't enough of them for Harvard to boast (and they are boasting) that 15+% of its incoming freshmen are black, which is year after year the case.
You ABSOLUTELY CANNOT, NO WAY, have 15% (or 13.5%, which is the black fraction of the US population) Blacks at Harvard, or any other very selective school, without racial preferences. There just are not enough Blacks that high up on the quantitative ranking (SAT, ACT, etc).
"There just are not enough Blacks that high up on the quantitative ranking (SAT, ACT, etc)."
Dee-troit high schools out of every 1,000 graduates only about 20 will be college ready and of those only 1/5 will be boyz.
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