I have been reading books my whole life and I grew up in the time period and in the neighborhoods that your beloved researchers supposedly described. So I lived the dream.
Btw at one point didn't researchers try to prove that Black people had smaller brains.
One other point that I will make about studies today looking back on different period of time. Those studies have a tendency of not encompassing the social situations that occurred during that time. Did that study address issues like how the government purposely under funded Black schools? Did it address instances of overcrowding in classrooms? Or not having classroom space at all for students? Did it address issues of teacher pay? Did it address issues of White flight and how Black the public schools were left for dead? Did it address the issues of how Charter and Magnet schools rose up out of that shyt?
Like Malcolm X once said: Black people didn't end up in their situation by accident. Do you really think that poor people in African American communities purposely decided against education or where they victims of a system that purposely decided to under educate them or worse yet not to educate them at all.
nikka I lived it too
and I'm telling you it happened to me
I already posted an article with multiple sources, many of them black. this is not a phrenology or eugenics argument, or even something along the lines of the Bell Curve, and it's disingenuous to compare it as such.
no one is saying Black people ended up in our situation by accident, and if you actually bothered to read those studies weren't conducted in a vacuum and mitigating factors were taken into consideration, in fact they're part and parcel of the larger picture some of them are trying to make more clear. I don't know why this bothers you so much
what's really telling is that in this thread for every nikka saying it's bullshyt and made up, there's somebody else saying that's how it was for them and the people they saw growing up. if it was all made up bullshyt then wouldn't that be what the consensus is
you can't just take people's life experiences and say "no
" because they don't fit your argument, especially when there is concurrent research affirming the experiences of these people.
two nikkas in here have presented evidence, and the other side has presented nothing but anecdotal experience
I don't know why folks in here are so invested in telling people what happened to them did not really happen to them, I really don't believe in using SJW jargon but that's pretty much the textbook definition of gaslighting
of course, maybe allll these people with their experiences of being shytted on as the smart kid were just lames right
