Stop The Madness: Only 47% Percent Of African American Males Graduate Highschool
08.18.10 at 1:55 pm
Chris Rock
‘We Can’t Blame White People’- Bill Cosby
08.18.10 at 2:00 pm
flyakite
as soon as the majority of black males start valuing different things we will be better off. The issue starts at home. Black males need to be present and when present have to be positive figures in their homes. Some dads are there but are trying to raise young thugs, shit is depressing.
there are black men out there doing well, but there are way too many not doing anything productive in their families
08.18.10 at 2:08 pm
neighborh00dc
nigel i don’t know why you are surpise it’s nothing that’s new to me the majority of minorities value the easy way out and don’t want to work hard to educated themselves. you wonder why there are revolving doors in court houses and why they keep coming back to the system. some people just don’t want to work hard. we expect to sit back and relax and let the money come to us but truth is like everything that we want in life it’s something you have to work hard for. i can say i am one of the few in my old block to make it and get that diploma. i wish the rest of borough (bx ,ny)would push themselves and do the same thing and work hard to get at least that cause college isn’t for everyone but find something your legally good at and work at it full force
08.18.10 at 2:47 pm
CROOKLYN FLATBUSH
WELL THATS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BLACK KIDS LOOK UP TO THESE ENTERTAINERS AND ALL THEY WANNA SAY ON A TRACK IS SUUWOO AND GANGSTER THAT AND THIS
08.18.10 at 3:03 pm
Big L
and thats where all the gang bangin and drugs and shit come in because they dont have a high school education they cant get jobs so they do whats next which is…. drugs kill rob & steal to they find a home which is….. jail or casket damn our black people our black people you would never though or known that we “black” created & did so much for america by the way we act and live now
08.18.10 at 3:08 pm
DallasTx_Greedy
DAMN iam happy i turned around & got focused and got my shit together to make it to college where iam doin ight
08.18.10 at 3:35 pm
X
IF WE HAD MORE BLACK ROLE MODELS WHO WERE COOL THAT WERE NOT GLORIFYING GANG BANGIN AND KILLIN MAYBE WE WOULD BE SOMEWHERE AS A PEOPLE
08.18.10 at 3:37 pm
Daddy
It starts in the home.
08.18.10 at 3:38 pm
Pain
Glad to be a part of that 47 percent that do graduate and move on to college. I hate to say it but most of my fellow black men have their priorities messed up. The list basically goes as follows: Look fresh, get money anyway possible (selling drugs, etc), get some pussy, and be a real nigga (like the rappers they look up to). The problem is that there aren’t any positive black male role models around the house anymore so the young black male turns to the streets or the rappers. Its a damn shame.
08.18.10 at 3:51 pm
Sp
Can’t say i am surprise when most of the people these kids look up to. Brag about not going to school and saying they made it.
08.18.10 at 3:55 pm
County of Kings
wat u expect we got role models that will lie thru they teeth to make u respect them for having grown up wit a gangsters background.
not for nothin but I wouldn’t mind at all if a rapper would lie thru his teeth bout having a degree or diploma, even if u don’t have it, say u do, even when they prove u never graduated, keep lying and say u did. I would actually buy your album, instead we got niggas like plies that actually have a degree but would rather be known for a goon pendant, a nigger wearing a nigger chain is wat I call that.
we falling behind in this race, if barack didn’t inspire, then nothing will
08.18.10 at 4:28 pm
screwheadsonly.com
Ehh, I need to see more before I believe this study is totally accurate. Either way, education is a problem within the Black community.
it sad day to know most black men rather be no-good motherfucker downgrade, rather than a upgrade sucess—-common sense is what get you thru life ,but that comes with a educated mind not just street smarts -2 much negative role models and im not talking about just entertainers, 2 bad some of the ones they look up 2 n their homes and community and drug dealing has became a stuck on stuipd generation teacher —all there left 2 say is —young blk men better get ya mind rite or there wont nothing left 4 yall 2 be but a prison number or a death trap in the making, and that is on sum real shit —-my god it 2010 if not now —motherfuck got damn when
08.18.10 at 4:53 pm
DCDAGODD
I DONT BELIEVE THIS STUDY FORR A SECOND, I NEED TO SEE THE US CENSUS NUMBERS. THERE ARE SOOO MANY BULLSHIT STUDIES ABOUT US ITS NOT FUNNY SO IM SAYIN BULLSHIT UNTIL I SEE THE CENSUS NUMBERS
08.18.10 at 5:21 pm
J.R
LOL @ people blaming rappers. Hell yea it starts in the home! You telling me there is no one in your family to look up to/steer you in the right direction? Ya need someone to tell you that commiting crime will land you in jail/in some other negativity? Fuk outta here with them excuses. NYC education system is HORRIBLE. The #s don’t suprise me. These teachers can’t teach for shit. Mix that plus rowdy kids who don’t wanna listen is a recipe for failure. Shit, I’m in college remedial math! I didn’t learn a goddamn thing in HS math class. The system here is to blame. IMO.
08.18.10 at 6:20 pm
BK Bound
Daauum nigags are dumb this days no wonder why we have rappers such as oj juice man waka gucci lil b and the list goes on
08.18.10 at 11:16 pm
NewJerseyGiant
I’m part of that 47% thank god. The problem is is that our youth don’t have any role models to swing them in the right path. If the parents don’t set rules and regulations in the home, than the child is going to do whatever he/she wants to do and skip school and soon end up in the system. It starts with the parents/elders that look after the children.
08.19.10 at 12:16 am
DatCycle
All I got to say is thank god I’m that 47% rofl.
08.19.10 at 3:58 am
Toronto Reppa
Dumb Coons!! Got my diploma pimp!!
08.19.10 at 6:05 am
Da Truth
1-3 of black in Jail LOL…..only 6% 800,000….second we have the high total men in college in the last two years than we ever had…..third only 5% the male population is gay (white black asian)….fourth only 59% of black women finish high school….fourth the number of black men doubles in every tax braket compared to black women…..you look all this up on the internet
08.19.10 at 9:07 am
bwells
why the fuck are they asking older men who do not attend a new york city school, or any high school for that matter what the problem is. let REAL students who go to these schools, and REAL teachers who teach at these schools tell you what the problem is….i shouldn’t even have to say im part of that “47%” it’s a damn shame…DOZO 08 IN THIS BITCH!
08.19.10 at 11:36 am
ummmm...
i’m a teacher (black female) in an urban area outside of NYC and i can tell you i don’t have an answer. i try my hardest to stress the importance of education. i have plenty of the kids respect, but they still don’t see a problem with staying back and dropping out. if you have an answer let me know but i can tell you, as long as kids get advanced K-8 without having basic skills, high school can be a B!tch to some kids and i’m convinced that half of the kids acting out, can’t really read to comprehend. i would love to do more, but i’m out of answers but still full of fight.
11.18.10 at 3:33 pm
Miss Anne
Mr. Crosby is RIGHT and SOMEWHAT in denial most everything should be blamed on the WHITE MAN due a fact that it was a WHITE MAN WHOM KILLED his only SON because he was messing around with one of HIS. I do say to BLACK brothers and sisters if you review your OWN HISTORY and learn our ancestors contributions to AMERICA change their WHOLE purpose(s) in their lives we would have been more successful and controlled as you see in the LATINO/ASIAN cultures. I am one of the season AFRICAN AMERICANS who are descendants from the AFRICANs dumped in the CONTINENT called “Northern”;therefore, I related as AFRICAN and then, AMERICAN. it beat being called other names. We even call ourselves by out personas toward each other. I believe that if we all take a class of the history of AFRICAN slaves brought to this peace of land and ‘YES” get angry and then, EXHALE and say to yourself “I will make a difference!’ And, when you become successful in knowledge and wealth reach down and pick up another AFRICAN AMERICAN OR BLACK AMERICAN, however you wish to say it but the only way we are to prosper is by not only reaching back and helping your family but going into you own neighborhoods with human beings who look just like you and pulling he or she out of that rut.
One thing I see Mayor Antonio Villarioagosa of Los Angeles, California he taking care of his OWN culture. This is his main objective ‘ME’. Even though he was not voted in by his own well be honest his LOVE is for his people. Quote on quote: His cousin who is aCity Councilman or Assembly or Senator was asked a question “What was he doing for the African American or Black American here in California? His response: “”"The African American had their term and it about us (Latinos). Then, they stand in Arizona, California or wherever and use the BLACK experiences(our trials in this in America.) to justify their reason for telling AMERICA to kiss their WHITE ASSES.
SO BILL COSBY YOU have a point but tell me how many AfricanAmericans has you sponsored in their AMERICAN or abroad EDUCATIONS. You have been around for year Bill. I do believe that after a time when you’re over a certain age such as, 21 years old you are a man or woman you must cease in making excuses and get an EDUCATION and
if the doors are locked then you can blame the so-called white man who are Latinos, Asians, etc.
There are Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey, politicians, Ole Jesse Jackson and his brother Charles Jackson and his step brothers, Noah Robinson and many,many more Black skinned Americans who gotten much of their wealth from their own people because we supported your ASSES WHEN they talked about you in the media. We are talking about Black skinned Americans in this country who are struggling to get their education, housing, but cannot because they cannot afford and do not say their are financial aid yes it is to certain ones, they set aside fundings for certain ones.
BILL COSBY I AM ONE OF THOSE BLACK AMERICAN WHO STRUGGLED BETWEEN RAISING A FAMILY, SCHOOLING AND WORKING IN A SORRY SORRY ENVIRONMENT, STATE GOVERNMENT JOBS WHERE I WORK MY BEHIND OFF. AND, THEY, the WHITE FEMALE, always asked me “why are you in such a hurry?” Her way of saying that I cannot have her
position. I typed 85 wpm and shorthand CERTIFIED by the STATE of CALIFORNIA at 131 wpm and did I ever use it. No! Not that I did not qualify by I had deal with the WHITE bigot FEMALE WHO DID NOT have knowledge that I had but she or he was my BOSS. THEY COME TO ME FOR ANSWER.
I had a mother and father in the home especially, was taught about Black pride and hard work. My mother got $1.00 compare to the illegal female worker $12.00 and I do not believe they work as hard as my mother and her children. Yes,some were maids, factory workers but I wanted better and correction, I cleaned white females houses in California and was given $4,25 an hour and they were RICH, RICH and when I asked for $10.00 in 1979 she fired me. I did not fight her because I only work for her on Saturdays and she herself recommend me to her other friends, especially, “She is a excellent worker!”
True: We BlACK AMERICAN MUST STAND TOGETHER like the LATINOS. THEY ARE GETTING OVER ON OUR STUPIDITIES WITH EACH OTHERS.
YOU ARE RIGHT AND WRONG BILL COSBY.
03.27.11 at 5:45 pm
Big Meech
we should stop playing the blame game….we should accept that we as black people are always going to be the under dogs. but that right there is encouragment! it says to me how hard are we as students going to try to over come this. yes we are around drugs, yes we are around poverty, yes we are around gang violenence but so what! if we know were our priorities should be then this shouldnt hold us back! as black peoeple we as a race are naturally strong now its time to use that mind set in school. I am a 15 year old african american boy who is as poor as they come but i already have the ability to get a full ride scholarship to any college in texas. if i can do this as just a freshman how come we as a race cant graduate college……
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‘We Can’t Blame White People’- Bill Cosby
as soon as the majority of black males start valuing different things we will be better off. The issue starts at home. Black males need to be present and when present have to be positive figures in their homes. Some dads are there but are trying to raise young thugs, shit is depressing.
there are black men out there doing well, but there are way too many not doing anything productive in their families
nigel i don’t know why you are surpise it’s nothing that’s new to me the majority of minorities value the easy way out and don’t want to work hard to educated themselves. you wonder why there are revolving doors in court houses and why they keep coming back to the system. some people just don’t want to work hard. we expect to sit back and relax and let the money come to us but truth is like everything that we want in life it’s something you have to work hard for. i can say i am one of the few in my old block to make it and get that diploma. i wish the rest of borough (bx ,ny)would push themselves and do the same thing and work hard to get at least that cause college isn’t for everyone but find something your legally good at and work at it full force
WELL THATS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN BLACK KIDS LOOK UP TO THESE ENTERTAINERS AND ALL THEY WANNA SAY ON A TRACK IS SUUWOO AND GANGSTER THAT AND THIS
and thats where all the gang bangin and drugs and shit come in because they dont have a high school education they cant get jobs so they do whats next which is…. drugs kill rob & steal to they find a home which is….. jail or casket damn our black people our black people you would never though or known that we “black” created & did so much for america by the way we act and live now
DAMN iam happy i turned around & got focused and got my shit together to make it to college where iam doin ight
IF WE HAD MORE BLACK ROLE MODELS WHO WERE COOL THAT WERE NOT GLORIFYING GANG BANGIN AND KILLIN MAYBE WE WOULD BE SOMEWHERE AS A PEOPLE
It starts in the home.
Glad to be a part of that 47 percent that do graduate and move on to college. I hate to say it but most of my fellow black men have their priorities messed up. The list basically goes as follows: Look fresh, get money anyway possible (selling drugs, etc), get some pussy, and be a real nigga (like the rappers they look up to). The problem is that there aren’t any positive black male role models around the house anymore so the young black male turns to the streets or the rappers. Its a damn shame.
Can’t say i am surprise when most of the people these kids look up to. Brag about not going to school and saying they made it.
wat u expect we got role models that will lie thru they teeth to make u respect them for having grown up wit a gangsters background.
not for nothin but I wouldn’t mind at all if a rapper would lie thru his teeth bout having a degree or diploma, even if u don’t have it, say u do, even when they prove u never graduated, keep lying and say u did. I would actually buy your album, instead we got niggas like plies that actually have a degree but would rather be known for a goon pendant, a nigger wearing a nigger chain is wat I call that.
we falling behind in this race, if barack didn’t inspire, then nothing will
Ehh, I need to see more before I believe this study is totally accurate. Either way, education is a problem within the Black community.
[screwheadsonly.com] .
it sad day to know most black men rather be no-good motherfucker downgrade, rather than a upgrade sucess—-common sense is what get you thru life ,but that comes with a educated mind not just street smarts -2 much negative role models and im not talking about just entertainers, 2 bad some of the ones they look up 2 n their homes and community and drug dealing has became a stuck on stuipd generation teacher —all there left 2 say is —young blk men better get ya mind rite or there wont nothing left 4 yall 2 be but a prison number or a death trap in the making, and that is on sum real shit —-my god it 2010 if not now —motherfuck got damn when
I DONT BELIEVE THIS STUDY FORR A SECOND, I NEED TO SEE THE US CENSUS NUMBERS. THERE ARE SOOO MANY BULLSHIT STUDIES ABOUT US ITS NOT FUNNY SO IM SAYIN BULLSHIT UNTIL I SEE THE CENSUS NUMBERS
LOL @ people blaming rappers. Hell yea it starts in the home! You telling me there is no one in your family to look up to/steer you in the right direction? Ya need someone to tell you that commiting crime will land you in jail/in some other negativity? Fuk outta here with them excuses. NYC education system is HORRIBLE. The #s don’t suprise me. These teachers can’t teach for shit. Mix that plus rowdy kids who don’t wanna listen is a recipe for failure. Shit, I’m in college remedial math! I didn’t learn a goddamn thing in HS math class. The system here is to blame. IMO.
Daauum nigags are dumb this days no wonder why we have rappers such as oj juice man waka gucci lil b and the list goes on
I’m part of that 47% thank god. The problem is is that our youth don’t have any role models to swing them in the right path. If the parents don’t set rules and regulations in the home, than the child is going to do whatever he/she wants to do and skip school and soon end up in the system. It starts with the parents/elders that look after the children.
All I got to say is thank god I’m that 47% rofl.
Dumb Coons!! Got my diploma pimp!!
1-3 of black in Jail LOL…..only 6% 800,000….second we have the high total men in college in the last two years than we ever had…..third only 5% the male population is gay (white black asian)….fourth only 59% of black women finish high school….fourth the number of black men doubles in every tax braket compared to black women…..you look all this up on the internet
why the fuck are they asking older men who do not attend a new york city school, or any high school for that matter what the problem is. let REAL students who go to these schools, and REAL teachers who teach at these schools tell you what the problem is….i shouldn’t even have to say im part of that “47%” it’s a damn shame…DOZO 08 IN THIS BITCH!
i’m a teacher (black female) in an urban area outside of NYC and i can tell you i don’t have an answer. i try my hardest to stress the importance of education. i have plenty of the kids respect, but they still don’t see a problem with staying back and dropping out. if you have an answer let me know but i can tell you, as long as kids get advanced K-8 without having basic skills, high school can be a B!tch to some kids and i’m convinced that half of the kids acting out, can’t really read to comprehend. i would love to do more, but i’m out of answers but still full of fight.
Mr. Crosby is RIGHT and SOMEWHAT in denial most everything should be blamed on the WHITE MAN due a fact that it was a WHITE MAN WHOM KILLED his only SON because he was messing around with one of HIS. I do say to BLACK brothers and sisters if you review your OWN HISTORY and learn our ancestors contributions to AMERICA change their WHOLE purpose(s) in their lives we would have been more successful and controlled as you see in the LATINO/ASIAN cultures. I am one of the season AFRICAN AMERICANS who are descendants from the AFRICANs dumped in the CONTINENT called “Northern”;therefore, I related as AFRICAN and then, AMERICAN. it beat being called other names. We even call ourselves by out personas toward each other. I believe that if we all take a class of the history of AFRICAN slaves brought to this peace of land and ‘YES” get angry and then, EXHALE and say to yourself “I will make a difference!’ And, when you become successful in knowledge and wealth reach down and pick up another AFRICAN AMERICAN OR BLACK AMERICAN, however you wish to say it but the only way we are to prosper is by not only reaching back and helping your family but going into you own neighborhoods with human beings who look just like you and pulling he or she out of that rut.
One thing I see Mayor Antonio Villarioagosa of Los Angeles, California he taking care of his OWN culture. This is his main objective ‘ME’. Even though he was not voted in by his own well be honest his LOVE is for his people. Quote on quote: His cousin who is aCity Councilman or Assembly or Senator was asked a question “What was he doing for the African American or Black American here in California? His response: “”"The African American had their term and it about us (Latinos). Then, they stand in Arizona, California or wherever and use the BLACK experiences(our trials in this in America.) to justify their reason for telling AMERICA to kiss their WHITE ASSES.
SO BILL COSBY YOU have a point but tell me how many AfricanAmericans has you sponsored in their AMERICAN or abroad EDUCATIONS. You have been around for year Bill. I do believe that after a time when you’re over a certain age such as, 21 years old you are a man or woman you must cease in making excuses and get an EDUCATION and
if the doors are locked then you can blame the so-called white man who are Latinos, Asians, etc.
There are Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey, politicians, Ole Jesse Jackson and his brother Charles Jackson and his step brothers, Noah Robinson and many,many more Black skinned Americans who gotten much of their wealth from their own people because we supported your ASSES WHEN they talked about you in the media. We are talking about Black skinned Americans in this country who are struggling to get their education, housing, but cannot because they cannot afford and do not say their are financial aid yes it is to certain ones, they set aside fundings for certain ones.
BILL COSBY I AM ONE OF THOSE BLACK AMERICAN WHO STRUGGLED BETWEEN RAISING A FAMILY, SCHOOLING AND WORKING IN A SORRY SORRY ENVIRONMENT, STATE GOVERNMENT JOBS WHERE I WORK MY BEHIND OFF. AND, THEY, the WHITE FEMALE, always asked me “why are you in such a hurry?” Her way of saying that I cannot have her
position. I typed 85 wpm and shorthand CERTIFIED by the STATE of CALIFORNIA at 131 wpm and did I ever use it. No! Not that I did not qualify by I had deal with the WHITE bigot FEMALE WHO DID NOT have knowledge that I had but she or he was my BOSS. THEY COME TO ME FOR ANSWER.
I had a mother and father in the home especially, was taught about Black pride and hard work. My mother got $1.00 compare to the illegal female worker $12.00 and I do not believe they work as hard as my mother and her children. Yes,some were maids, factory workers but I wanted better and correction, I cleaned white females houses in California and was given $4,25 an hour and they were RICH, RICH and when I asked for $10.00 in 1979 she fired me. I did not fight her because I only work for her on Saturdays and she herself recommend me to her other friends, especially, “She is a excellent worker!”
True: We BlACK AMERICAN MUST STAND TOGETHER like the LATINOS. THEY ARE GETTING OVER ON OUR STUPIDITIES WITH EACH OTHERS.
YOU ARE RIGHT AND WRONG BILL COSBY.
we should stop playing the blame game….we should accept that we as black people are always going to be the under dogs. but that right there is encouragment! it says to me how hard are we as students going to try to over come this. yes we are around drugs, yes we are around poverty, yes we are around gang violenence but so what! if we know were our priorities should be then this shouldnt hold us back! as black peoeple we as a race are naturally strong now its time to use that mind set in school. I am a 15 year old african american boy who is as poor as they come but i already have the ability to get a full ride scholarship to any college in texas. if i can do this as just a freshman how come we as a race cant graduate college……