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Black performance on police exams is simply the tip of the iceberg of a truly tragic cruelty. dailysign.al/30saprA via @WE_Williams @DailySignal

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Black performance on police exams is simply the tip of the iceberg of a truly tragic cruelty.
That cruelty stands front and center when one examines the education that most blacks in Baltimore receive.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal In 19 of Baltimore’s high schools, out of 3,804 students, only 14 of them, or less than 1%, were proficient in math. In 13 of Baltimore’s 39 high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal In five Baltimore City high schools, not a single student scored proficient in math or reading. Despite these academic deficiencies, about 70% of the students graduate and are conferred a high school diploma.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal A high school diploma attests that the holder can read, write, and compute at a 12th-grade level. Obviously, the diplomas conferred on students who have not mastered reading, writing, and computing are fraudulent.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal When a person who cannot read, write, and compute very well takes a written employment exam, including that to become a police officer, he is going to encounter difficulties.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal His difficulties are not caused by any racially discriminatory aspect of the test. His difficulties are a result of not having acquired what he should have acquired by the time he finished high school.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal But that is not how such a person sees it. He sees that he has a high school diploma just as a white applicant has a high school diploma. To him, any difference in treatment and outcomes must be the result of racial discrimination.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Thus, the U.S. Department of Justice sued, claiming that the written test for police officer recruits was unfairly biased against black applicants.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal The conclusion that Baltimore County’s written test for police officer recruits was unfairly biased against black applicants is tragic. It allows Baltimore public schools to continue to produce fraudulent education.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal You say: “Hold it, Williams! You can’t blame everything on schools.” You’re right. One cannot blame schools and teachers for students who are hostile to the education process. One cannot blame schools and teachers for a rotten home environment or derelict parents.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal But there is one thing entirely within the control of educators. That’s their power to issue diplomas. When they confer high school diplomas on youngsters who cannot read, write, and compute at or near a 12th-grade level, they are engaging in fraudulent conduct.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Thomas Sowell’s research in “Education: Assumptions Versus History” documents academic excellence at Baltimore’s Frederick Douglass High School and others. This academic excellence occurred during an era when blacks were much poorer and faced gross racial discrimination.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal It’s worthwhile reading for black people to learn the capabilities of other blacks facing so many challenging circumstances.
I’m wondering when the black community will demand an end to an educational environment that condemns so many youngsters to mediocrity.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal In 2009, Harvard terminated nearly 300 employees citing their endowment falling to only $26 billion. While high-earning law school professors such as Warren were unaffected by the layoffs, many administrative and clerical staffers earning more modest wages faced termination.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal The announcement led one employee to collect petition signatures asking top earners at the law school to take temporary salary reductions. Warren remained silent, according to Stephen Helfer, who spearheaded the petition drive.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Helfer spent 22 years as a law school library assistant at Harvard. When positions similar to his faced layoffs, he took issue with the salaries of employees such as Warren and then-president Drew Faust.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Warren was paid nearly $350,000 to teach at Harvard in 2009, while Faust raked in more than $775,000 in pay, benefits, and expenses during the 2007/2008 school year.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Helfer's call for temporary salary reductions came after the presidents at Brown and Stanford universities cut their own pay in 2009 to ease similar budget constraints.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Helfer's petition received 120 signatures and numerous university groups showed solidarity with a "no layoffs" campaign, including a protest during a Harvard commencement ceremony. Helfer ended up taking early retirement after the university moved forward with the planned layoff.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Warren declared herself "in this [2020] fight for America's workers every step of the way" in August and has appeared in union picket lines in recent months, but she failed to support members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers throughout the 2009 layoffs

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Warren went on to make more than $400,000 as a tenured Harvard professor in the 2010/2011 school year after nearly 300 low-income employees were laid off.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal "Warren, who is always talking about the middle class being hammered, did not seem to take interest in the petition or any efforts to alleviate the layoffs," Helfer said.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Warren and her husband, who remains a professor at Harvard, reported earning $972,654 in 2017. She now has a reported net worth of $12 million.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Warren has continuously criticized the rising cost of higher education, proposing a student loan forgiveness plan that would cancel student debt for more than 95 percent of borrowers. Despite this plan, Warren was listed as a top earner at Harvard as early as 1998,

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Harvard offered Warren a tenured professor job in 1993 amidst explosive protests and a discrimination lawsuit over the Harvard faculty's lack of diversity.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Warren had previously categorized herself as Native American as a visiting professor. Shortly after she assumed the position in 1995, Harvard Law School news director Mike Chmura repeatedly touted Warren as the first tenured woman of color at Harvard Law.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Public reports filed by Harvard to the U.S. Department of Labor listed a single Native American professor at the university until 2011.

@WE_Williams @DailySignal Lani Guinier is now listed as Harvard Law's first tenured woman of color in her university bio after a DNA test showed Warren having as little as 1/1,024 Native American ties.