On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wow. The day keeps getting weirder. I have a BA and MA in Mathematics. > Though most of our posts wouldn't show it, we seem to have quite a few > things in common. Next question: Ginger or Mary Ann?
Both. One does not choose between the two nubile women when you can realistically have both. Mostly you have to worry about that sneaky Professor. He may have to be bumped off. > "By the by, I just happened across an NYT article that presents some > evidence for your point of view: > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/opinion/19douthat.html";<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/opinion/19douthat.html> > > > I found a similar article. I didn't post it though because it is on World > Nut Daily. I figured no one would even bother checking it out, especially > after see that Pat Buchanan was the author. Here's the link for any brave > souls: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=181357 Douthat references Buchanan in his piece. The study that he links to ( http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9072.html ) is not one that I've read. Going over the summary for it, it seems to be a rather selective study in that it only looks at applicants to 10 top, selective, private colleges, so I take it with a grain of salt. But there is potentially something there and I'm certainly open to the idea of economics becoming a more powerful discriminator than race. When affirmative action was started, there was not much of a black middle class to speak of. That is significantly better now, but poverty is still a much more pervasive problem in minority communities than caucasian communities. I still maintain that there is more going on than simple economics, there is a pervasive class issue that renders it less likely for a poor member of a minority to overcome poverty than a poor caucasian to overcome poverty. I do believe, however, that things are moving more toward poverty being less predicated on race than other factors. That is a good thing. On the other hand, the inequality between the rich and the poor has been growing for the last couple decades so there are further fundamental inequalities that need to be dealt with. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323320 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
