Comments on: NYC public education has become dedicated to racial categories: Part II

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:08:08 +0000

Mac,

I’d love to know the name of that ‘condition’. That must be what my husband and son have and why I am forbidden to eat carrots around them!

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 19:05:19 +0000

The purpose of public schools is not to educate. The purpose of public schools is to keep kids off the street and employ Democrat voters.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:34:11 +0000

Addendum, the workforce of the Community and Social Service sector is about 20.4% black and accounts for about 3% of the black workforce.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:10:52 +0000

If you look at the statistics you will find that government employment, local, state, federal, accounts for about 1/3 of black employment.

No, you won’t find that, because it isn’t true. Blacks constitute 12% of the working population. The industries which are in the public sector by definition or have extensive intersection with the public sector have workforces in which blacks have the following shares:

Public administration: 16.9%
Social assistance: 19.5%
Educational services: 11.5%
Utilities: 9%
Transportation: 21%

Collectively, these sectors encompass 27% of the black workforce. However, there are scads of private sector employees in these sectors and blacks employed in public administration account for just 6.6% of the black workforce.

The only discrete occupations where black workers make up more than a quarter of the total are slaughterhouse employees (25.5%), bus and urban transit employees (35.6%), taxi and limousine service employees (30.2%), postal workers (28.6%), car rental employees (25.8%), security guards (27%), home health aides (26.1%), nursing home employees (28.6%), residential care employees (ex nursing homes) (26.3%), and barbers (30.8%). (About 2% of all black employees work for the postal service or local transit services).

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:33:45 +0000

” Though there are definitely more blacks working tech in state or federal jobs.”
Years ago I worked at the headquarters of a major Army command and noticed that there seemed to be a disproportionate number of people of color. If you look at the statistics you will find that government employment, local, state, federal, accounts for about 1/3 of black employment. The government is WPA for blacks. What I found amusing was that the SES was practically all male and white.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:55:28 +0000

Art Deco: I’d be curious to check your sources. My sources are the Digest of Education Statistics, which is published annually, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics' data published online. Blacks account for 6.6% of the population in the seven counties around San Francisco Bay, 6.8% of the population of the four counties around Los Angeles, and 2% of the population of New Mexico.

By: n.n

n.n — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:23:09 +0000

Diversity (i.e. color judgment, including racism) is another euphemism in the PC catalog, which many people left and right have adopted.

By: huxley

huxley — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 04:52:46 +0000

As we speak, about 10% of the baccalaureate degrees in computer and information sciences are awarded to blacks. In 1995, the proportion was almost precisely the same. About 8.5% of those working in computer and mathematical occupations are black at this time. Affirmative action is a cancer, but I doubt it’s all that consequential in this segment of the economy.

Art Deco: I’d be curious to check your sources. Those numbers don’t match my experiences in California or New Mexico.

Working as a software engineer in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, I saw that blacks were at best 1-2%. As a STEM student at UNM, that’s what I’m seeing in math and computer courses.

Of course, those are anecdotal numbers. But I have trouble believing the real numbers are 5x or more. Though there are definitely more blacks working tech in state or federal jobs.

Looking over the web, I can’t find your 10% bachelor degrees and 8.5% employment numbers anywhere.

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 03:42:42 +0000

“…changing mindsets around equity…” This recent academic/quasi-academic fad of substituting “around” for “about” is fingernails-on-chalkboard-level grating to my ear. Frequently it’s combined with another and somewhat lesser annoyance, the overuse of “have [or having] a conversation [or conversations].” As in “We will be having conversations around equity.”

I would find it very difficult to continue a conversation with a person who used it, because I would not be able to control my irritation. Petty and hypersensitive, I guess, but I read somewhere recently (here?) that there is actually a name for the condition in which one is unreasonably and disproportionately angered by loud chewing and similar sounds. I’m that way about some of these verbal tics.

The use of “bodies” for “people” is another one.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 02:42:11 +0000

She’s a ‘consultant’, i.e. grifter.

Her real enemy isn’t ‘racists’, it’s someone who is willing and able to undertake valid and reliable social research. And the stones to get it published.