Blacks Think Education Is Gay?

[Atheist-Lite]

**controversial, it'll seperate the hawks from the doves?**

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15387444

African-Caribbean boys 'would rather hustle than learn'

Black schoolboys can choose to perform poorly to avoid undermining their masculinity, the head of the Jamaican Teachers' Association has said.

Adolph Cameron said that in Jamaica, where homophobia was a big issue, school success was often seen as feminine or "gay".

He was concerned the same cultural attitude was affecting African-Caribbean male students in the UK.

They are one of England's worst-performing ethnic groups in schools.

Only traveller children do worse at GCSEs. Although improvements have been made, last year just 40% of African-Caribbean boys achieved five good GCSEs including English and maths compared with the national average of 58.5%.

Mr Cameron, head of the Jamaica Teachers' Association, made the comments in a lecture at an event in Bristol aimed at promoting the educational achievement of black boys and sponsored by the National Union of Teachers.

He noted that in Jamaica boys were at least 10 percentage points behind girls in national tests. Misplaced views about masculinity needed to be tackled in schools.

He said: "Education... takes second place to notions of entrepreneurship as, predominantly our young men, get involved in the informality of what the University of the West Indies academics, Witter and Gayle, have called a 'hustle culture'."

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[Tyrannical]

Hustle is just a polite way of referring to criminal activity such as theft or drug dealing.

I'm surprised the BBC would point something like that out.

[MrJonno]

Rightly if a black person says there is something wrong some parts of the black community he may actually be interested in improving it while if someone from the BNP/KKK gets involved its more because they want to set up a concention camp

[HomerJay]

Why is he called Adolph?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Hustle is just a polite way of referring to criminal activity such as theft or drug dealing.

I'm surprised the BBC would point something like that out.

True, but at least they didn't call them aliens.

[FBM]

NDT is amused by your over-generalization.

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[Gawdzilla Sama]

Hustle is just a polite way of referring to criminal activity such as theft or drug dealing.

I'm surprised the BBC would point something like that out.

Disambiguation is a bad thing?

[Tyrannical]

Hustle is just a polite way of referring to criminal activity such as theft or drug dealing.

I'm surprised the BBC would point something like that out.

Disambiguation is a bad thing?

They basically equivocated Jamaicans / Jamaican culture with crime and a disdain for learning.

Though I will propose a curious experiment They think learning is Gay and feminine. I say bring back the Dunce Cap, but in pink with frilly lace
Seriously, that could work It would be like forcing peer pressure to do a 180, as the dumb would get made fun of instead of the smart.

[Bella Fortuna]

NDT is amused by your over-generalization.

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[Azathoth]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Hustle is just a polite way of referring to criminal activity such as theft or drug dealing.

I'm surprised the BBC would point something like that out.

Disambiguation is a bad thing?

They basically equivocated Jamaicans / Jamaican culture with crime and a disdain for learning.

You mean equated? The word "hustle" was defined to show what the youths that were disdainful of education actually planned to do for a living instead of having a job that required them to be educated. BBC are simply reporting what they said.

Though I will propose a curious experiment They think learning is Gay and feminine. I say bring back the Dunce Cap, but in pink with frilly lace
Seriously, that could work It would be like forcing peer pressure to do a 180, as the dumb would get made fun of instead of the smart.

The gay thing is simply a rationalization for their disinterest in education.

[Tyrannical]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

How so? The fact that they're from one particular place doesn't mean that other folks of other races don't have the same attitude. My classmates at High School aspired to nothing more than a factory job that would pay for a TV and enough beer each weekend for them to forget they were working in a factory for the next forty-five years.

[Tyrannical]

How so? The fact that they're from one particular place doesn't mean that other folks of other races don't have the same attitude. My classmates at High School aspired to nothing more than a factory job that would pay for a TV and enough beer each weekend for them to forget they were working in a factory for the next forty-five years.

I was mimicking the above picture, not replying to you.

You don't seem to know what hustle means. They aren't looking at the Oxford dictionary for the meaning It's shady or illegal activity.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hustle

And there's nothing wrong with working in a factory. It's still good honest work.

[Warren Dew]

Though I will propose a curious experiment They think learning is Gay and feminine. I say bring back the Dunce Cap, but in pink with frilly lace
Seriously, that could work It would be like forcing peer pressure to do a 180, as the dumb would get made fun of instead of the smart.

On the playground, the kids who spend their time learning how to fight will still beat up the kids who spend their time studying.