Comments on: Lani Guinier Returns to Declare Standardized Tests ‘Racist’

By: Next93

Next93 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:38:43 +0000

The very fact that this woman is teaching at Harvard is living proof that there’s racism in the higher education system, and why it should be abolished. I sat down and completely demolished her logic in three paragraphs (less than 1000 words), and I’m “only” and engineer.

If she’s teaching anything other than arts and crafts, someone at Harvard is getting seriously ripped off.

By: Scope

Scope — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +0000

and this paragraph is the proof of the ideology of the liberals-

Guinier goes on to insult hard working students and diminish their academic success in explaining her rationale, saying, “the reason that I’m calling it racism is because it is a state of mind that is indifferent to the fact that these tests, whatever you think about them, are having a disparate impact on different populations and violating that first principal that talent is equally distributed among all groups.”

You can be free OR equal, but you can’t be both. You can’t redistribute talent.

Our education system has been lacking for many years, ever since the Liberals took over the Universities, and now it goes all the way down to Grade School. With the current administration, education is doomed to get even worse.

Mr. Blackwell, thank you for posting here at Redstate. I supported you for RNC Chair, and oh how I wish you would have won. That is becoming more obvious to many.

By: Achance

Achance — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:47:49 +0000

By: Deskpilot

Deskpilot — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:57:37 +0000

find a fault, identify it, and pillorize it. More importantly, BLAME SOMEONE (or someting really close to that) except the person brusshing your teeth.

By: Tbone

Tbone — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:47:06 +0000

is Tavis Smiley on Celebrity Jeopardy.

By: kfpickett

kfpickett — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:04:53 +0000

Seeing Lani Guinier’s name, one I hadn’t thought of for awhile, raises the hackles on the back of my neck. Five years ago (2004), the then-ultra-liberal female chancellor of the University of Illinois invited Ms. Guinier to be the keynote speaker at the institution’s May commencement. My son, who had just completed the two-year M.B.A. program in the School of Business, participated in the graduation ceremony.

In her remarks, Ms. Guinier proceeded to chastise the hard-working parents of central and southern Illinois graduates because, she said, they should have been footing the bill for more minorities to come out of the city of Chicago to pursue degrees at the University of Illinois. I thought my wife and a lady behind us were going to come out of the stands and chase Ms. Guinier out of Assembly Hall. My son had taken out nearly $50,000 in loans to pay for the graduate degree from our own state university, for which we pay taxes every year. The people behind us were farmers and couldn’t get any financial aid because they owned farmland.

Lani Guinier, the epitome of what Barack Obama is all about.

By: red4ever

red4ever — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:33:01 +0000

The reason black children do not do as well on standarized tests is because educators (most indoctrinated in left wing teacher’s programs) have given up trying to educate them. It’s all about understanding their culture and language (ebonics as a foreign language anyone?) rather than make sure that Jimmy can read, write and cipher. It’s about teaching how racist everything is, than seeing a child with a mind that is waiting to be opened to the wonders of learning.

The tests are only racists because the schools have failed to teach the students basic skills under an assumption that the kids can’t learn. Which is a racist thought in itself.

By: E Pluribus Unum

E Pluribus Unum — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:15:30 +0000

That woman is a menace to any healing or coming together regarding racial issues. And she’s a dolt too.

This racial muckraking like she does, and like frankly Eric Holder does, only serves to inflame blacks and feed them false grievances, and to alienate perfectly innocent whites who are anything but racist.

By: paulincolo

paulincolo — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:06:33 +0000

And it is in the form of Lani Guinier. Someone who sees racism in everything from salt to snow to black type on white papered tests is the very definition of racism.

Oh, I suppose she could have a point, I remember having math problems where the answer was 1,776 and think how anti-indian it was or when the answer was 69 and thinking how sexist and offensive to women this answer was, so I changed it to 96, wrong answer but I felt sooooooooo good about myself.