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Notes While Observing #19: Return of the Master Race

 

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Return of the Master Race." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 25 Nov 2020. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.


Horace Mann


1.) “Education…above all other devices of human origin is the great equalizer of the conditions of men.” ~Horace Mann
"Mann hoped that by bringing all children of all classes together, they could have a common learning experience. This would also give an opportunity to the less fortunate to advance in the social scale and education would 'equalize the conditions of men.' Moreover, it was viewed also as a road to social advancement by the early labor movement and as a goal of having common schools. Mann also suggested that by having schools it would help those students who did not have appropriate discipline in the home. Building a person's character was just as important as reading, writing and arithmetic. Instilling values such as obedience to authority, promptness in attendance, and organizing the time according to bell ringing helped students prepare for future employment.
"In 1838, he founded and edited The Common School Journal. In this journal, Mann targeted the public school and its problems. His six main principles were:
the public should no longer remain ignorant;that such education should be paid for, controlled, and sustained by an interested public;that this education will be best provided in schools that embrace children from a variety of backgrounds;that this education must be non-sectarian;that this education must be taught using the tenets of a free society; andthat education should be provided by well-trained, professional teachers."

Nikole Hannah-Jones


2.) “The thing about education being so important in the United States is we were very early a country that decided that we believed in universal education. That if we were to be a great nation, it couldn’t just be the wealthy, it couldn’t just be the powerful’s children who’d be able to get an education, that we had to be an educated society to be a democratic society. And so we were one of the first nations to offer a universal education to our children. And Horace Mann is considered the father of the American public school […]when he decides that he wants to convince Massachusetts to open Common Schools for all children, he realizes that he has to make a trade off. If he wants white tax payers and white politicians to support Common Schools for the white poor, the white working class, he has to eliminate Black people from that equation. Because he couldn’t get the support if he were educate Black children in these publically funded schools. So at the very beginning we have decided that what we REALLY mean by ‘Common Schools,’ is ‘Common Schools for White Children’ and Black children would receive no education unless they could pay for it themselves."
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“That resistance [to Brown vs Board of Education school desegregation] lasted nearly 25 years and it’s not until the 1970s that we start to see real desegregation in the United States, because it is forced by the courts, and it is forced by the Congress, and it is forced by the Executive Branch.

“This graphic shows the percent of Black students at majority white schools. As you see there has never been a time when even half of Black kids have gone to majority white schools, in a country when Black people are only 13% of the population. And desegregation peaks in 1988, so not even a full generation after we start desegregation we already start going backwards. But this is the most remarkable chart to me. This is the chart of test score divided by race – we called it the Racial Achievement Gap, which is the gap between the test scores between white children and Black children. And as you see in 1988, at the peak of school integration, that gap was the narrowest, that it had actually been cut in half in less than one generation and that it expands again as we walk away from school integration in the United States. And we’ve never gotten back to that point. 
“So all of this data was readily available, but I was writing about education and no education reporter was writing about segregation. Or integration. And everyone was trying to figure out ‘How do we close this racial achievement gap? How do we get Black and white children to score the same, to have the same opportunities…?’ And the answer was very clear. This is the only thing in the United States that has ever worked on scale to close the racial achievement gap. And it was the one thing that everyone kind of colluded – journalists, politicians, policy makers, parents – not to talk about. Now I was going to talk about it.”
Rebecca Sibilia

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The value of high-level education

4.) “Education is about learning new things and increasing your capacity for doing things. Once you have shown you can learn new mathematical procedures, which you have by the time you graduate from high school, there is little to be gained from being taught more of the same. You will be able to pick up new techniques whenever you need them.

“For instance, once a piano student has mastered one Tchaikovsky concerto, with at most a bit of practice—but essentially no new teaching—they’ll be able to play another. From then on, the student’s focus should be on expanding their repertoire to include other composers, or to understand music sufficiently well to compose their own.

“Analogously, in the case of math, your goal at college is to develop the thinking skills that will allow you to solve novel problems (either practical, real-world problems or ones that arise in math or science) for which you don’t know a standard procedure. In some cases, there may not be a standard procedure. (This was the case when the Stanford graduate students Larry Page and Serjey Brin developed a new mathematical procedure to search for information, leading to their creation of Google.” 

The populace rejected 'Common Core'


5.) For all of president Obama's flaws, particularly in regards to his blatant neglect of the American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) whom he pandered to the most in order to win his two-terms, what I did admire and was actively rooting for him on was the president's ambitious plan to use technology to grew the middle class back up, offsetting the economic devastation caused by Bush-Clinton's North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with his version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). His plan was composed of one major componant at each economic strata of society -- The Common Core State Standards Initiative to get American children ready for college-level work by the time they were high school seniors, The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act to end predatory banking in the college loan process, The TechHire Initiative to incentivize every sector of society to rapid train Americans in high-paying tech jobs, and finally the TPP itself which would create a boom of innovation and entrepreneurialship, making the country the new Mecca for tech around the globe. 
Unfortunately, his plans failed technically because he wasn't able to secure his legacy with Hillary's immediate election, and broadly because the 1% criminal overclass refused to allow any major transformational prosperity on the national level that would have seen the despised Black American former slave class also benefit, so his plans were rejected. 


CITATIONRasheed, Muhammad. "Common Core." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 19 Sep 2017. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.
Felicity Huffman

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Lori Loughlin

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Kelly Williams-Bolar

8.) Kelley Williams-Bolar, of Akron, Ohio, was initially sentenced to five years in prison in 2011 after using her father's address to enable her two daughters to go to school in a better district. A judge later suspended that sentence and gave her ten days instead.

While her children are no longer attending schools in the Copley-Fairlawn District, school officials said she was cheating because her daughters received a quality education without paying taxes to fund it.

"Those dollars need to stay home with our students," school district officials said.

"I don't think they wanted money," Williams-Bolar said. "They wanted me to be an example."

Presiding Judge Patricia Cosgrove acknowledged as much. "I felt that some punishment or deterrent was needed for other individuals who might think to defraud the various school districts," Cosgrove said.


Tanya McDowell 

9.) A five-year prison term was meted out to Tanya McDowell, a homeless Connecticut woman convicted of larceny after sending her son to a school district that neighbored her last known address. The comparisons with the Felicity Huffman case forced Huffman's high-priced legal team to perform an elaborate circus act to inflate McDowell's case in a clear double-standard that did nothing more than highlight the fact that Black American are actively preyed upon by the corrupt criminal-justice system as fodder for the for-profit prison corporate networks.

Jordan Peterson - "Defining Racism"


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Jordan Peterson - "Born with High IQ"



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The Debunked "IQ" Myth


12.) "In such a large population sample, almost all effects are statistically significant because uncertainty regarding the proximity of sample means to population means approaches zero. Consequently, the true measure of significance is effect size, and here we conformed to Cohen’s notion (Cohen, 1988) that an effect of ∼0.2 SD units represents a small effect, ∼0.5 a medium effect, and ∼0.8 a large effect. [...] Conversely, while level of education (calculated from those aged 20+) showed a small-medium-sized positive relationship with the mean score (∼0.33) and the verbal score (0.32 SD), the STM score showed a smaller relationship (0.23 SD), while the relationship with reasoning (0.12 SD) was of negligible scale (Figure 4C). The STM and reasoning components were also dissociated from each other. For example, individuals who regularly suffer from anxiety (Figure 5A) had significantly lower mean scores (0.21 SDs), a relationship that was most pronounced for the STM component (0.35 SDs), with negligible reasoning (0.06 SDs) and verbal (−0.16 SDs) effect sizes."
"More controversially, on the basis of subsequent attempts to measure “g” using tests that generate an intelligence quotient (IQ), it has been suggested that population variables including gender (Irwing and Lynn, 2005; Lynn, 1999), class (Burt, 1959, 1961; McManus, 2004), and race (Rushton and Jensen, 2005) correlate with “g” and, by extension, with one’s genetically predetermined potential. It remains unclear, however, whether population differences in intelligence test scores are driven by heritable factors or by other correlated demographic variables such as socioeconomic status, education level, and motivation (Gould, 1981; Horn and Cattell, 1966). More relevantly, it is questionable whether they relate to a unitary intelligence factor, as opposed to a bias in testing paradigms toward particular components of a more complex intelligence construct (Gould, 1981; Horn and Cattell, 1966; Mackintosh, 1998). Indeed, over the past 100 years, there has been much debate over whether general intelligence is unitary or composed of multiple factors (Carroll, 1993; Cattell, 1949; Cattell and Horn, 1978; Johnson and Bouchard, 2005). This debate is driven by the observation that test measures tend to form distinctive clusters. When combined with the intractability of developing tests that measure individual cognitive processes, it is likely that a more complex set of factors contribute to correlations in performance (Carroll, 1993).
"Defining the biological basis of these factors remains a challenge, however, due in part to the limitations of behavioral factor analyses. More specifically, behavioral factor analyses do not provide an unambiguous model of the underlying cognitive architecture, as the factors themselves are inaccessible, being measured indirectly by estimating linear components from correlations between the performance measures of different tests. Thus, for a given set of behavioral correlations, there are many factor solutions of varying degrees of complexity, all of which are equally able to account for the data. This ambiguity is typically resolved by selecting a simple and interpretable factor solution. However, interpretability does not necessarily equate to biological reality. Furthermore, the accuracy of any factor model depends on the collection of a large number of population measures. Consequently, the classical approach to intelligence testing is hampered by the logistical requirements of pen and paper testing. It would appear, therefore, that the classical approach to behavioral factor analysis is near the limit of its resolution."
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Adam Hampshire, Roger R. Highfield, Beth L. Parkin, Adrian M. Owen,Fractionating Human Intelligence,Neuron,Volume 76, Issue 6,2012,Pages 1225-1237,ISSN 0896-6273,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2012.06.022.
Abstract: SummaryWhat makes one person more intellectually able than another? Can the entire distribution of human intelligence be accounted for by just one general factor? Is intelligence supported by a single neural system? Here, we provide a perspective on human intelligence that takes into account how general abilities or “factors” reflect the functional organization of the brain. By comparing factor models of individual differences in performance with factor models of brain functional organization, we demonstrate that different components of intelligence have their analogs in distinct brain networks. Using simulations based on neuroimaging data, we show that the higher-order factor “g” is accounted for by cognitive tasks corecruiting multiple networks. Finally, we confirm the independence of these components of intelligence by dissociating them using questionnaire variables. We propose that intelligence is an emergent property of anatomically distinct cognitive systems, each of which has its own capacity.

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See Also:

Notes While Observing #18: Quantum Thought...?

Notes While Observing #17: How Systemic Racism Works

Notes While Observing #16: The Exclusive White Male Homosexual Club

Notes While Observing #15: Playing the Coon Card

Notes While Observing #14: The Toxicity of Unsolicited "Advice"

Notes While Observing #13: Breaking the Chains of Plunder

Notes While Observing #12: The Sloppiest Cover-Up of All

Notes While Observing #11: Driving the Narrative of 'Whiteness'

Notes While Observing #10: The White Establishment's Plan for Profiting From Black Reparations

Notes While Observing #9: The Descendants of Yakub

Notes While Observing #8: The 1972 Gary Convention

Notes While Observing #7: Strategies of the Discrimination Olympics

Notes While Observing #6: The GOP's International War on Black America

Notes While Observing #5: The Case of the Old Switcheroo

Notes While Observing #4: Risk Responses of the Racial Contract Beneficiary

Notes While Observing #3: Pig Blood, Clinton vs Alton, & Black Twitter

Notes While Observing #2: The Crack in the Musical Bedrock

Notes While Observing #1: Stephen King (Carrie) & Barbra Streisand (Yentl Mendel)
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Attack of the Barely Literate (and Very Racist)

 

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Changing the Way We Talk to Change the Way We Think

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That Tiresome Middlegame

 

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The Voice of My Enemy Through the Mouth of My Skinfolk Fake Friend

 

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Kobibornanew - Psychological reparations would help us more than monetary reparations ever could.
Muhammad Rasheed - All of our psychological issues come directly from domestic terror induced aritifical impoverishment. Massive infusions of cash is the very FIRST thing we need to overcome our psychological traumas.
Brannu Sunyata - So, basically what you’re saying, is there’s no psychological healing without an infusion of cash? So if capitalism collapses ... we don’t heal? 
That sounds hella dependent. Not free.
Muhammad Rasheed - My ethnic group's specific trauma was caused by deliberate exploitation & plunder, preventing me from building wealth over generations and leaving #ADOS in an artificially impoverished state. You cure the root cause of my signature trauma with a Reparatory wealth redistribution.
The only person who would suggest that my theft-based trauma can be cured with non-wealth redistribution therapy/counselling—that does not address the artificially widening racial wealth gap—is an anti-#ADOS agent of white supremacy.
Brannu Sunyata - ... and if U.S. imperialism/capitalism collapses and there is no possibility of wealth redistribution, then what would the healing of your trauma from white supremacy look like?
... and if the wealth distribution you are begging for/demanding isn’t the amount you feel able to heal that trauma, then what?
Muhammad Rasheed - You're basically asking me "If a meteor strikes the earth and blows it up, THEN what?" That's the level of seriousness of your question. 
Why bother to do anything at all then since there is always a possibility that the entire [fill-in-the-blank] could collapse?
Muhammad Rasheed - I'm not "begging" for anything. I'm unifying as a special interest group to use my political capital pressure my government to meet my demands in exchange for my vote. 
"Begging" or "gibs" is a white supremacist slur in context.
Muhammad Rasheed - "Why bother trying to govern/misgovern yourself if the entire government could collapse?"



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Filtered Through Whiteness: The Unrecognizable Message of Dr. King

 

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Breaking the Biggest Generational Curse of All

 

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Pandering for White Gaze Favor

 

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Rasheed, Muhammad. "Pandering for White Gaze Favor." Cartoon. The Official Website of Cartoonist M. Rasheed 21 Nov 2020. Pen & ink w/Adobe Photoshop color.

Muhammad Rasheed - The worst part* of an entertainment industry monopolized by white-owned corporate is the fact that #ADOS who want to work in the industry are forced to pander to whites and to what makes them comfortable. Listening to "raceless" Black entertainers who default believe whatever white people believe while on stage SUCKS SHIT. It's embarassing.
The last time Dave Chappelle pandered in that way was back in 2016 when he expressed to "Let's give Trump a chance" that time on SNL and he's regretted it ever since. Every show after that he unapologetically just speaks what's real and triggers white people mercilessly. Interestingly, despite some special interest groups impotently trying to 'cancel' him, they actually gave him an Emmy for his no-holds-barred fearlessness, which is a remarkable feat.
They saw him walk away from that $50 million and perhaps fear what he WOULD say if they did try to formally ostracize him.
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* The actual worst part is obviously #ADOS being economically excluded from the wealth-building class of that industry, but I was being melodramatic for effect. 
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Foolkiller V: 'Don't do it, son! It ain't worth it!'

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Muhammad Rasheed - The original Marvel Comic's character called Foolkiller would comb through newspapers and other media looking for evidence of fools that he could hunt down and kill. The second Foolkiller that Spider-man fought around 1980-81 or so, came to the epiphany during the course of that adventure that a fool by his nature will interfere with your life and cause unnecessary hardship just while you're going through your normal day and minding your own business. You don't have to hunt them down, they will come to you.



This was an example of a "mere" street level hero I've always been fond of, even though Spider-man treated him like a villain in the referenced tale, which I 100% disagreed with. "N199a, let that man work."
His gun shot powerful disintegrating beams of soundless light, that could put a man-sized hole in the asphalt with about 12 shots, enabling him to jump through before Spider-man could grab him. It's one of my TOP FIVE favorite ray guns in fiction.

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This New False Equivalency

 

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