The plan to destroy America?

 In 2004, Richard Lamm gave a speech that I just now have heard about and it underlines a plan to destroy America. Back then George W. Bush was President and we had conducted invasions of two nations Afghanistan and Iraq as part of America's War on Terror. On FOX News at the time we have a host named Bill O'Reilly who even in this period was talking about maintaining our southern boarded.

However, Lamm - who was a Democrat and formerly Governor of Colorado and he died just last year - wrote about an issue that's being discussed even now almost two decades later. The border is still a concern and sanctuary cities and states are being faced with their own policy choices by for example the Governor of Texas who is sending migrants to these sanctuary areas of America.

Depending on your right wing commentator - including myself if you wish - you might have heard the alarm sounded by them even now with the issues of the border. I've never heard them cite Lamm's speech, however, it's amazing that in some cases it's still being discussed.

Gov. Lamm is making a criticism of multiculturalism. I do believe there is a difference between diversity and multiculturalism. To allow multiculturalism is to allow division, very low cohesion in a nation that thrives when there is a unity of societal values.

I hope you find this clip interesting. [VIDEO]

Black staffers leaving White House

 This article from PJ Media is most interesting, you're creating a diverse White House full of people from many disadvantaged groups - racial, sexual identity, trans, etc. Then you have no plans to retain this talent and the question is even asked: How many of these do you think are useless bureaucratic positions that brought nothing of value to the American people to begin with?

Right! I see in this article my Morehouse brother Cedric Richmond is leaving the administration among other Black names. And to think he gave up a Congressional seat to be part of this administration "Let's go Brandon".

Anyway perhaps being diverse is nothing more than a platitude. A congratulatory self-pat on the back for a certain segment of the electorate that has very little to offer for American anyway other than a very stringent idea of what they think this nation needs. We're seeing it in action now! 

ALSO, remember there was an exodus of staff from the office of the Vice President Kamala Harris. We can say in her case there's said to be a hostile work environment and it's basically led by someone who doesn't exactly know what they're doing. Again how about that for diversity.

Finally here's an article from Politico about this if you find PJ Media to be a bit more ideologically slanted.

h/t Instapundit

Mark Dice: Look out! It's "everywhere"!

 

[VIDEO] Mark Dice takes aim at the state of "diversity" in entertainment. No matter how many of a certain skin color you eliminate from our TV programming it'll never be enough for the woke crowd.

Me I like to keep it simple. Just give me good stories and entertainment without feeling as if every single group in the world has to be represented on TV. That's it!

BTW, I was a huge fan of Fresh Prince and definitely enjoyed Living Single when they were on TV. Of course that scratches the surface of great TV programming featuring Black performers and characters.

ALSO, I got a kick out of Dice mentioning the series about a fictional HBCU A Different World.

California university works to reduce number of white people on campus

When I saw the above line over at Instapundit, I was about to say "Oh for Pete's sake!" And you know what quotes like this often does? I read into it!

In keeping with the diversity and inclusion movement sweeping campuses across the country, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo recently released a 30-page report outlining plans to “improve diversity” via a series of initiatives.

One goal is to increase the number of people of color on campus beyond the increases that have already occurred over the past few years, as “applications from underrepresented minority students doubled between 2008 and 2018.”

“In 2011, the campus was 63 percent Caucasian,” the May 2 report informs readers, “in fall of 2017, it was less than 55 percent … but there is still much work to do.”

The public research institution states it wishes to get those numbers more in line with the state’s percentage of white people, which recent polls hold at 39.7 percent of the population.

“To further advance its goals of reflecting the demographics of California and creating a more diverse and inclusive campus community, Cal Poly administration has developed the following Diversity Action Initiatives document,” the report states.

In it, administration details a multi-year effort with dozens of intitiatives, including ones to further lower the percentage of white students on campus and increase the number of faculty of color.

For students, the school plans on recruiting applicants more heavily based on race. For instance, the school has recently implemented several new scholarships “aimed at recruiting more African-American and other underrepresented minorities.” It’s also working to recruit low-income and first-generation students by partnering with high schools that enroll a high percentage of these students, according to the report.

Cal Poly SLO has eliminated applicants’ ability to apply to the school in Early Decision since the process, according to the report, “disadvantaged low-income students.” All applicants, regardless of their level of interest in the school, are viewed in one big pool in regular decision admissions.

The point of this should be not just attract a diverse student body, it's to attract the best possible students. And I get that you want to help disadvantaged students to not only get into college, but also to stay in school. I feel this is a recipe for disaster and the insistence on diversity will gain that university a bad crop of students who aren't there for the college experience.

I could dare fear they'll think like K-12 public education, going to a university will become just another entitlement. Another thing they can take for granted! 

What our schools need? A few good men

I couldn't agree more! As I saw in another 60 Minutes story years ago, "where are the men?". Some statistics:

Despite some inroads by men, teaching remains a female-dominated profession. This is especially true for younger children. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 2% of pre-K and kindergarten teachers and 18% of elementary and middle-school teachers are men.

The situation is more balanced, but not evenly balanced, in secondary school, where 42% of teachers are men.

And then why we need men in our K-12 classrooms:

First, men represent an underutilized talent pool. If we could attract more males to teaching, school districts would have an easier time hiring outstanding individuals. The point is not that men are better teachers, but that highly qualified men are far less likely to apply for teaching jobs.

Second, boys in particular benefit from the presence of male role models in the classroom. As Stanford University professor Thomas Dee has documented, in a study of more than 20,000 middle-school students, boys perform better when they have a male teacher, and girls perform better when they have a female teacher. If we want to do something about boys' often sluggish classroom performance, more male teachers could be a useful step.

Third, we especially need black male teachers in the classroom. As Education Secretary Arne Duncan has argued, "All of our students benefit from having a black male in the classroom. But particularly our young black males." Yet black males represent a mere 2% of the K-12 teaching workforce. If this were to change, we might begin to see better educational outcomes and life outcomes for young black males.

That third point is very important I think. Young Black males are struggling and they get into the most trouble. If only they saw someone who looked like them in the classroom and helping to build them up!

Read the rest! And worth a cross-post to the unofficial Shedd School blog.

Via Instapundit.

Viewbook Diversity vs. Real Diversity

Article via Instapundit about the truth about diversity on America's college campuses with an excerpt here:

In September of 2000, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Idaho were both embarrassed when they were forced to admit that they had doctored promotional photographs to make their campuses look diverse. In both cases, non-white faces were added to real student photographs of all-white groups.

At the universities involved, officials insisted that they meant well, but just about everyone agreed that Photoshop diversity isn’t the real thing. But what if photos, even real photos of real live students, convey a false impression?

A sociologist at Augsburg College, together with an undergraduate, recently studied the viewbooks of hundreds of four-year colleges and universities, selected at random. The research team counted the racially identifiable student photographs and also gathered data on the actual make-up of the student bodies.

The findings: Black students made up an average of 7.9 percent of students at the colleges studied, but 12.4 percent of those in viewbooks. Asian students are also more likely to be found in viewbooks than on campus, making up 3.3 percent of real students on average and 5.1 percent of portrayed students. The researchers acknowledge that appearance does not always tell the story of race and ethnicity, and say that they only counted clearly identifiable photos, and feel less confident about figures for Latino students. But they report relatively few students whose appearance suggested that they might be Latino, which is striking given the growth in the Latino student body. (A total of 371 colleges were studied, and historically black colleges were excluded; the findings were recently presented at the meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society.)

Looked at another way, he found that more than 75 percent of colleges appeared to overrepresent black students in viewbooks.

So why are black students more prevalent in viewbooks than on campus?

“Black equals diversity for many people. If you show African American students, people think that means your institution is diverse,” said Timothy D. Pippert, an assistant professor of sociology at Augsburg, who led the study. “They are defining diversity as that face.”