Steve Sailer: Blacks Enthralled by Blacks But Not by Much Else

Sailer writes: “Anyway, these data remind me of something I noticed while watching Chris Rock’s attempt at a black Woody Allen movie, Top Five: black people in America really have a blast being black and they don’t seem very interested in much else these days.”

Comments:

* It also tends to point to the public ruckus that Kanye West caused at the Grammies last week. He probably spoke in his way for millions of blacks in general, and that’s namely that blacks should win just about every relevant and worthwhile entertainment award out there for every single year indefinitely. If it’s a choice for rooting for one’s own they tend to be among the most loyal of fans.

* So it is as I’ve believed all along, “diverse” means “black” and only 100% “diversity” is good enough.

* Well, “diversity” is a moving goalpost. In this instance, it means black. In some instances, it could mean black and Hispanic but no other non-whites. In some instances, it means everyone but the straight white cisgendered heterosexual gentile man. There are lots of possibilities.

* One other consideration is that AMPAS doesn’t want any shootings or murders at Oscars pre-parties or after-parties.

* An Indian told me the other day they wanted to move to a diverse neighborhood, one with Indian supermarkets, restaurants and residents.

I said – oh, so you mean a non-diverse neighborhood full of Indians? He didn’t understand.

* The assumption that the average black person was going to watch the Oscars if the cast & director of Selma were honored is a bit bizarre. The stars and director are not household names even to black people – a somewhat art-house director and and lead stars who are British with little exposure in the US. Nor was the movie particularly successful, despite being incessantly praised by the media.

“Precious” was totally different – Mo’nique was legitimately popular and had been a star of major sitcoms on UPN for years (jokingly referred to as the “Urban People Network”) and the movie was very successful (with a cast that had plenty of other familiar and popular faces for the typical black movie goer). The movie also fit well in with the reliably popular “urban fiction” genre.

As always, the NY Times seems to have a different view of what black people should be interested in from what they actually are interested in.

* John Jay, at about the time of the Constitutional Convention, is reported to have remarked that those who owned the country ought to run it. Apocalypto Gibson was right: the Jews run Hollywood. Have they dropped the ball? Not hardly. They should therefore run the awards show racket as well (which is, of course, just not-very-well-disguised advertising).

If the Soul Brothers ran H’wood, the foreign market for films would be cut to a fraction of its present size. The Japanese don’t give a flying f**k (if you’ll pardon the pun) about the Tuskeegee Airmen cult. Or about “Selma” or about Selma.

* Kanye is quite in favor of blackness for its own sake. Black power. His father was a former Black Panther member.

The larger issue is correct: Namely, Kanye doesn’t particularly like or care about white people and would much rather prefer that a black entertainer always win an award, any award, over a white person. After all in his mind, only blacks can create the best entertainment and anyway, “everyone” knows that whitey stole all the good music from the brothers.

As this isn’t the first time he has publicly interrupted an award show over the exact same issue (‘Why’d some honkie crackaa win over a sister, yo?’), this is starting to look like a pattern with him and again, he is speaking for millions of blacks just as Jesse and Al speak for blacks collectively on the national stage, just as the Congressional Black Caucus speaks (and votes) collectively for blacks at the national level in the US Congress.

Blacks want to win every single solitary entertainment award (or all the good stuff thats relevant in today’s society) indefinitely in order to balance out the books for centuries and centuries of institutional racism, etc.

* Wonder if HW has looked at the demographics of movie theater attendance in areas that are middle class white yet have a representative number of blacks living there or near by.

Most whites I know have given up on those theaters–blacks in the audience make attending a thoroughly unpleasant experience: not only can they not hear but there’s the chance of things breaking out into a fight if they ask them to stop talking, laughing, or blurting out comments to the characters on the screen.

As a result, some get Netflix, but many don’t. It’s not uncommon for me to hear from these people who used to like to watch movies on the big screen, “I haven’t watched a movie in years.”

* What is our a priori expectation here?

Blacks are about 13% of the population. So do we expect them to earn 13% of the Oscars. Were we to say that we would be tacitly expecting blacks to be equal in acting talent with whites. Who thinks that’s true?

For example since blacks are 13% of the total population should we expect blacks to win 13% of the science based Nobel Prizes or the Fields Medal? Conversely blacks are overrepresented in all the hand speed and foot speed sports. So should they only be 13% of new entrants into the Hall of Fame?

Blacks are probably overrepresented in most Hollywood screenplays because there are government bureaucrats who set a quota for blacks roles. I’m not sure that this is true in movies but it is obvious in TV commercials.

All of which gets us back to the question – Can blacks act?

We know that blacks are less intelligent so we should expect to see fewer of them in fields that require much intellect. For example the Tesla car company is in the news again. I don’t actually know the name of the guy who is the founder and guiding genius behind this company – but I’m pretty sure he isn’t black. So why don’t we know who he is and we all know about Morgan Freeman?

In fact almost all black actors are famous for their personalities rather than their ability to act. Whites like Kevin Kline or even Brad Pitt will assay a wide variety of characters. Pitt for example bulked up for ‘Troy’ and then lost the weight to appear in a comic role. He has appeared as young men, old men, handsome young studs and ugly creeps. But Samuel L. Jackson is always Samuel L. Jackson. He always talks too loud and is pushy.

Blacks are entertainers but blacks just aren’t actors in the sense that whites are.

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Dating & Blogging

I met this Nice Jewish Girl. We were a couple of addicts and like crazy kids, we fell in love over the internet. We enjoyed massive chats on Facebook and long talks on the phone. We dreamed about one day talking on landlines. We made plans to get together. We shared our deepest fears and fondest wishes.

There was only one problem. She didn’t want me to post about racial differences in average IQ. I thought long and hard and chose to keep posting, but she will always retain a piece of my heart.

I know this is wrong, but writing about race is more exciting to me than 98% of women.

I met this hot young black chick. She was tall and slender with excellent spelling and grammar.

She came on to me! I’m the victim here.

I was just working away when she stopped by and said, “I like your yarmulke.”

Well, one thing led to another. We started talking. We made plans to investigate weighty issues in greater depth. She said she was fine with me taking her to McDonalds.

Yeah, she lived in Compton and rode the bus, and yeah she had a kid out of wedlock and yeah, she wasn’t Jewish and she wasn’t religious, so we had some differences. I won’t deny that. We face some obstacles. Yeah, I was impaled on the horns of a dilemma because I was really getting into racial differences at the time and yet hot young black chicks were hitting on me right and left (OK, just two).

So I decided to live with integrity and wrote some Facebook posts about what was on my mind and the hot black chick unfriended me — on Facebook and in real life.

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The Plot Against Harry

I love this movie made in 1969, but not released until 1989! It’s all about how Jews add vibrancy to America but it’s tough when the goyim convict you of silly crimes and the shvartzes and spics take over your turf.

According to IMDB:

* “A small-time Jewish racketeer, just out of prison, finds himself in a quandary. Returning to his old neighborhood, he finds that the streets that he and his friends once controlled have now been taken over by blacks and Hispanics. On top of that, he must try to get back with his family, who want nothing to do with him.”

* If Diane Arbus made a comedy from a script by Ernest Lehman and Cliffford Odets, the result would LOOK a lot like The Plot Against Harry. This is an icy-hearted comedy with scarcely a normal-looking human being in sight. Nearly everyone is some sort of New York Jewish grotesque. And yet there are dribs and drabs of sympathetic characterization throughout, as well as a fascinating and broad sociological survey of a range of urban types. We move easily from gangster-limo to garmento fashion-show, to a heart-charity telethon where an impossibly bland crooner entertains on the improbably shoddy set of a TV studio. By the end, you’re rooting for Harry, a small-time hood with the personality of a pickled whitefish. This movie is one of my all-time favorites.

* Here’s something new: a little B/W film with no stars, about a middle-aged Jewish ex-gangster who wants to go into the catering business –AND it’s not “Hollywood sit-com cute”! It’s understandable that with all of that going ‘against’ it, no one wanted to release this film back in 1970. Luckily, director Martin Roemer never underestimated the richness of his film. Twenty years after being turned down by Hollywood, he decided to try the independent festival circuit and there, he found his audience.

The plot against Harry Plotnick is basically his own conscience and paranoia working against him. He’d left a good marriage unaware that his wife was pregnant at the time, not that it probably would have made a big difference to him back then. He was obsessed with the numbers racket, where he made a fair amount of money but ultimately spent a fair amount of time in prison, only to discover upon his release that the rackets had been taken over by various minorities. Now Harry is beginning to see the signs that it’s time to make good with his conscience, with his family and with God. Not an easy feat!

This film is a wonderful glimpse into the kind of independent cinema that was around during the early seventies. It’s ‘early John Cassavetes meets early Woody Allen’. Unlike THE FRENCH CONNECTION or MEAN STREETS, both good films that depicted very specific worlds within Manhattan at that time, this film opens up a whole variety of worlds. Thus it steers free of cliches, no matter how deep it goes into the ethnic backgrounds of its characters. People are just people. Not all good or all bad. This film is like a breath of fresh air compared to the ultra-hip indie films of today. It’s effortless, humorous, poignant, and an extremely enjoyable time capsule of the recent past.

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The Path Ahead

Chaim Amalek: “When the Imam comes to talk to us and give us all the advantages of converting to Islam, there will be no left Jew or right Jew, just Believers who may remain and those others who will have to move to the new lands east of the Urals.”

D: “The leftist self haters will be the Kappos. They cant wait to kill us off. My right minded gun owning Jew would ever allow that. Hence why the leftist want to take our right to defend ourselves, like 1930s Germany. With multiple weapons and 10 round magazines I’ll be take at least 10 with me who try to kill us, subjugate us, place us in camps. I recommend all Jews buy hand guns and ammunition when the time comes, and it will come. This government only understands violence. After all, it’s America’s primary problem solving strategy.”

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So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

The bullies can only ruin your life if you are weak. Once people realize you can’t be intimidated, they tend to leave you alone.

I notice that most of the people in this story are women. In general, women are more emotionally open and as a result, they complain more. Women are more needy for social approval and more afraid to rock the boat. When did you last see a woman say something unpopular in public?

A friend says: “I’ve noticed these things happen to people who say things that are only mildly offensive. If you’re saying truthful offensive things and that’s your thing, these things don’t really happen, correct?”

Jon Ronson writes:

Recently, I wrote to Sacco to tell her I was putting her story in The Times, and I asked her to meet me one final time to update me on her life. Her response was speedy. “No way.” She explained that she had a new job in communications, though she wouldn’t say where. She said, “Anything that puts the spotlight on me is a negative.”

It was a profound reversal for Sacco. When I first met her, she was desperate to tell the tens of thousands of people who tore her apart how they had wronged her and to repair what remained of her public persona. But perhaps she had now come to understand that her shaming wasn’t really about her at all. Social media is so perfectly designed to manipulate our desire for approval, and that is what led to her undoing. Her tormentors were instantly congratulated as they took Sacco down, bit by bit, and so they continued to do so. Their motivation was much the same as Sacco’s own — a bid for the attention of strangers — as she milled about Heathrow, hoping to amuse people she couldn’t see.

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NYT: France is scrambling to remedy the inequities highlighted by the Charlie Hebdo attack…

I’m reading this New York Times article and I start choking at this: “France is scrambling to remedy the inequities highlighted by the Charlie Hebdo attack…”

The Charlie Hebdo attack highlighted inequalities? I thought the Charlie Hebdo attack highlighted the challenge of absorbing some Muslims into first world countries.

The inequalities that Muslims deal with in France have little to do with France and everything to do with Islam being a religion of the low IQ. Muslims, when there are millions of them, are not flourishing in any other western country. For every Western country that has had to deal with millions of blacks and Muslims and Gypsies, they’ve been a challenge.

Blacks, Muslims, gypsies and other low-achieving groups are not directed by Heaven to forever under-achieve in various categories. On the other hand, fast solutions to these challenges are not obvious.

It’s like America’s race problems. They have little to do with America and everything to do with the different abilities of different peoples. Blacks have an average IQ in America of 85, latinos are at 90, whites at 100, East-Asians at 105 and Ashkenazi Jews are around 110. This is going to produce different life results.

The New York Times paragraph in full reads: “France is scrambling to remedy the inequities highlighted by the Charlie Hebdo attack, troubles that have unraveled the nation’s social fabric and alienated Muslim and migrant youths, radicalizing a few. Urban renewal and remapping the capital are a start.”

Inequalities unraveled the nation’s social fabric? Muslim and black immigration to France unraveled the nation’s fabric, like it does everywhere else in the first world. Urban renewal and remapping cities has never solved these problems.

“But France must also reckon with its abiding racism, which pushed poor and unwanted citizens out from central Paris in the first place.”

Would there be any rational reason why rich people living in central Paris would not want a bunch of criminally inclined immigrants near them? Islam and France, right now, appear incompatible. This is not immutable. This is just what is happening now.

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Are there means for making the Jews happy and more useful in America?

Historian Albert S. Lindemann writes in Esau’s Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews:

A decade before the Revolution, the Metz Society of Arts and Sciences had offered a prize for the best essay on the question, “Are there means for making the Jews happy and more useful in France?”

What brave soul would offer a prize for such an essay today in America? Even as hyper-useful and as hyper-happy as we are today, surely Jews can be even more happy and more useful in America?

Chaim Amalek: “Jews are not here to be happy, but to do mitzvas. The best place for a Jew in gallus to be a Jew and do mitzvos is inside the Torah Corral, suitably policed by guard dogs (goyim on horseback). The goyim should pay yidden to sit and learn all day inside the Torah Corral, with the rule that Yidden would never be free to leave and would be fed by the goyim for their protective work learning and praying.”

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Rabbi Abraham Cooper: A snapshot of France and her Jews at the crossroads

Abraham Cooper, Marvin Hier and company remind me of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. They’re all a bunch of race hustlers. Whenever anything shocking happens to their group, they run to the scene and show the flag.

The differences between them can best be accounted for by an IQ disparity of more than 20 points, but they’re all doing the best they can with what they’ve got, hustling up publicity to get more money and power and influence for themselves and their group. Abe and Marvin represent folks who are generally near the top of the socio-economic spectrum while Al and Jesse represent folks who are generally at the bottom of the socio-economic spectrum. Therefore, they have to operate differently.

The world has no need for Holocaust museums, Simon Wiesenthal Centers and Jesse Jacksons, but it’s a nice living if you can get it.

From the Jewish Journal:

Even before the latest murders, thousands of French Jews had already left – many of them to Israel. They had had it with taunts, hate crimes, bullying on trains, shootings in Toulouse, kidnappings, home invasions, rape and murder. They had absorbed unending media bias against Israel, anti-Semitic taunts from Dieudonné, a judicial system that would not deal with anti-Semitism in a serious way. And they felt a wall of apathy from non-Jewish neighbors, over 30 percent of whom agree with the Le Pens of France who would be happy to see the Jews just leave and that hopefully the Muslims would follow suit.

The term “anti-Semitism” without reference to particular deeds must mean anti-Jewish views. So the rabbi wants France’s judicial system to deal with anti-Jewish opinions?

I wonder why so many French would like Jews to leave? Do they have their reasons? The article does not elucidate.

“Beyond dealing with this new terrorist threat, unless and until France’s 6,000-plus Imams and other Muslim leaders, weigh in on the right side of this epic struggle, this war may not be winnable.”

Muslims have different interests from Jews. Why on earth would Muslim leaders want to act against their own interests? Any self-respecting member of a strongly identifying in-group, such as Muslims, yearns for the destruction of his enemies.

“There is a new awareness of the centrality of the Internet as a key weapon for ISIS and its supporters. The deft manipulation of social networking aids recruitment drives across Europe and mass-markets hatred against anyone – including Muslims – who oppose their vision of a worldwide Caliphate.”

This is just preparing the ground for restrictions on speech.

“The hate preached by some Imams has put down roots. I got a small dose of it when Dr. Samuels and I were rushing to a meeting at a kosher restaurant near the Elysée Palace. Passing a pub with a lunchtime line spilling out onto the sidewalk, I briefly locked eyes with a young, attractive hijab-clad Muslim woman. Her indifferent glance transformed into utter contempt when she saw my yarmulke.

“Hate is learned, and ISIS is but one of its only teachers. That woman’s anti-Semitism will not be erased by government decrees.”

It may not be a good idea for Jews wearing yarmulkes to lock eyes with Muslim women. At various places in the world at various times, Jews and Muslims feel a conflict of interests. If I were a Muslim or an Arab, I might have rejoiced when I got the news that four rabbis had been stabbed to death in a Jerusalem synagogue because I would want Jerusalem to belong to my group. The presence of a high-achieving Jewish state in the middle of low-achieving Arab states is an unbearable humiliation for Arabs. Their average IQ of about 85) simply does not permit them to compete with Jews.

Barbara Lerner Spectre runs a government funded Jewish study group in Sweden. She says: “I think there is a resurgence of anti-Semitism because at this point in time Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural. And I think we are going to be part of the throes of that transformation, which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the centre of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.”

Jews are going to teach Europe to be multi-cultural. How’s that working out? Jews have played a significant role in encouraging Muslim immigration into Europe. How’s that working out for Europe and for Jews?

American general Wesley Clark has a Jewish dad and a Methodist mom. He reflects the views of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the ADL, the Southern Poverty Law Center and other Jewish organizations when he says: “Let’s not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That’s a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.”

Multi-ethnic means conflict and tragedy. Diversity means anti-white.

If the Simon Wiesenthal Center wanted to be above board, they would admit they were race hustlers. Instead, they pretend to be against all prejudice and bigotry, but you might notice they rarely go after Jews for negative depictions of non-Jews.

A Jerusalem bus carried the ad: “The Gentile doesn’t want anything. He waits to be told what the Jew wants!” (Lubavitcher Rebbe)

Imagine a bus in New York said: “The Jew doesn’t want anything. He waits to be told what the Muslim wants.” The Simon Wiesenthal Center would go nuts screaming about anti-Semitism, but unfortunately there is no term for negative Jewish views of Gentiles. Anti-Gentilism, apparently, is not a thing.

I expect every strongly identifying in-group to have negative views of out-groups so I don’t give a damn about what is called racism and bigotry and anti-Semitism if it doesn’t lead to harmful behavior. When it results in criminally violent behavior, I want those who do it severely punished, and when it comes to murder, I want them executed. I don’t believe in more severe punishment for hate crimes compared to identical crimes committed without the utterance of slurs.

There’s no part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center devoted to tracking down Stalin’s willing executioners who were Jewish. Why is genocide worse when non-Jews such as Nazis do it to Jews as opposed to when Jews do it to Kulaks in the 1930s?

Historian Albert S. Lindemann published a good book that sheds light on these matters, Esau’s Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. Here are some excerpts:

Once revolutionaries had taken over in France after 1789…the question of what should be done about the Jews was unavoidable. As in Germany, Jews in France were considered, and considered themselves, a separate nation, a corporate body with special privileges granted by the king… They were not Frenchmen but rather Jews, a foreign people of Asian or Oriental origin…living in France. Such a sense of separateness was distinctly stronger among Jews than it was among other non-French…living in France.

Many Jewish leaders, especially the rabbis, were at first hostile to the idea of French citizenship… The rabbis had recently attempted to tighten up the bonds of corporate control…in order to “control unruly Jews”… The last thing most of them wanted was a systematic liberalization… The rabbis understood that such a liberalization would loosen their authority… Indeed, in eastern Europe the idea of civil equality would soon be roundly denounced by Jewish leaders as a cynical device to disrupt the Jewish community…

Sephardic spokesmen often emphatically agreed with non-Jews concerning the general unsuitability of the Ashkenazim for French citizenship, due to their low moral character…

A decade before the Revolution, the Metz Society of Arts and Sciences had offered a prize for the best essay on the question, “Are there means for making the Jews happy and more useful in France?”

…That Jews were degenerate and physically unattractive seemed to pass as unchallenged assumption in discussions among the Enlightened at midcentury… Another Enlightened Jew, who was one of the prize winners of the Metz competition, emphasized the evil of Jewish tradition itself… His essay argued that the wickedness of contemporary Jews was not only the result of Gentile oppression; the Talmud, the rabbis, the teachings of Judaism were also to blame. Thus, Jewish essence and an unfavorable environment were neatly joined.

The debates in the revolutionary National Assembly, between 1789 and 1791, echoed the debates in salons and academies in the decades before the Revolution. No one offered a defense of the Jews as they were… Opponents of Jewish emancipation retorted that Judaism was not a universalistic religion in the sense that the various Christian religions were. Judaic belief, they maintained, included the belief that Jews were a separate nation. It was not then merely a private affair. Jews could not serve in the army because would not eat the food that other soldiers ate. They would not drink wine produced by Gentiles. They would not wear the same clothes as other soldiers. They would not work or fight on the Sabbath. They could not be depended upon to defend the French nation because they were members of another nation, one that existed in other countries, potential enemies of France. A left-wing delegate fro Alsace…concluded, “It is not I that exclude Jews, they exclude themselves.”

The delegates from Alsace, both right and left wing, were among the most vociferous opponents of giving citizenship to the Jews. Since Alsace was where the largest concentration of Jews in France was to be found, those delegates were the ones as well who had had the most extensive firsthand contact with them, and in the words of one historian, “there can be no doubt that…prejudice was fed by the actual appearance and behavior of the average Jew.” The delegates from Alsace bitterly and repeatedly complained about the activities of Jews in their province…

Napoleon…was widely regarded by Jews in western and central Europe as their liberator and protector. He nonetheless continued to think of them as a peculiarly troublesome national group with a number of tenacious vices that would require special legislation to remedy.

…from the standpoint of most ordinary Jews in eastern Europe — not just the rabbis — modern ideas originating in western Europe were a snare of the Evil One….

Western Jews viewed the Jews of eastern Europe not only as embarrasingly backward, ragged, and filthy; the imagery they employed paralleled that of the anti-Semites.

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Why Would We Want Competent Police Anyway?

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The ABC station in Dayton, Ohio reports:

The Dayton Police Department is lowering its testing standards for recruits.

It’s a move required by the U.S. Department of Justice after it says not enough African-Americans passed the exam.

Dayton is in desperate need of officers to replace dozens of retirees. The hiring process was postponed for months because the D.O.J. rejected the original scores provided by the Dayton Civil Service Board, which administers the test.

Under the previous requirements, candidates had to get a 66% on part one of the exam and a 72% on part two. The D.O.J. approved new scoring policy only requires potential police officers to get a 58% and a 63%. That’s the equivalent of an ‘F’ and a ‘D’. …

The D.O.J. and Civil Service Board declined Dayton’s News Source’s repeat requests for interviews. The lower standards mean 258 more people passed the test. The city won’t say how many were minorities. …

The D.O.J. has forced other police departments across the country to lower testing standards, citing once again that not enough black candidates were passing.

A story on WHIO in Dayton gives a few more (sometimes conflicting) numbers:
Officials with the City of Dayton Service Board announced Thursday that it has accepted the cutoff score for the police recruit written examination administered on Nov. 20, 2010. Officials said a total of 1,083 candidates completed the written portion of the examination.

The test was administered in two parts, a Test Preparation Manual (TPM) test with 86 questions and a Situational Judgment and Writing Ability Test (SJWAT) with 102 questions.After consultation with the United States Department of Justice, as well as Fire & Police Selection, Inc., the creator of the written examination, the cutoff score for the examination is 50 points for the TPM portion and 64 points for the SJWAT portion.

This resulted in 748 individuals passing the written examination, which was a pass/fail examination.

Presumably, this means that the top 748 out of 1083 now proceed afresh through the oral part of the hiring process all with equal chances.

So, under the original scoring, 490 of 1,083 candidates for these “dozens” of jobs passed the test. So, you had to be in the top 45% on the written test. Now, they’ll go down another quartile.

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2011/03/neverending-story.html

From the Chicago Sun-Times (thanks to the readers who sent this in):
Police may scrap entrance exam
‘OPEN UP THE PROCESS’ | Union chief: It’s ‘too stupid to be true’

BY FRAN SPIELMAN AND FRANK MAIN, Staff Reporters

The Chicago Police Department is seriously considering scrapping the police entrance exam to bolster minority hiring, save millions on test preparation and avert costly legal battles that have dogged the exam process for decades, City Hall sources said Tuesday.

If the process is opened to everyone who applies and meets the minimum education and residency requirements, Chicago would be virtually alone among major cities. Most cities have police entrance exams — and for good reason, experts say.

“A background check and a psych [exam] alone will not eliminate some people who should not be there,” said Brad Woods, who ran the Personnel Division under former Chicago Police Superintendents Phil Cline and Terry Hillard.

Calling an application-only process a “step backward” and the “wrong way to go,” Woods said, “When you lower your quality, you will get poor police service and more complaints. … Whenever you make it easier to be the police, you’re doing the citizens and the Police Department a disservice.”

Charlie Roberts, who ran the training division from 1995 to 1999, noted that there are “eleven tracks” recruits must go through in the police academy, including the law and the municipal code.
“If you don’t give someone at least a reading comprehension test, can you just put them in and risk the possibility of having so many of them fail? That could get quite expensive,” Roberts said.

“We were getting people with 60 hours of college credit who were reading at a third-grade level. What do you think you’ll get if you have no screening process?”

Human Resources Department spokesperson Connie Buscemi acknowledged Tuesday that the Daley administration has been exploring other “options” since last fall, when a “request-for-proposals” for companies interested in preparing an on-line police entrance exam was cancelled.

The last police entrance exam was held on Nov. 5, 2006.

“We wanted to try to develop something on-line to allow the city to accommodate members of the U.S. military who are on active duty. But, we didn’t get any responses that met our needs. No one said they could administer an on-line exam” and guarantee its integrity, Buscemi said.

This is a legitimate need, although I doubt if it has much to do with dumping testing. Hiring tests in Chicago are typically given on a single day every few years, with copies of the test delivered written by outside consulting firms delivered to the test site by armored car. Otherwise, insiders will get a look at the test ahead of time and alert their nephews and in-laws to what’s on it.

One problem with this system is that if you are a Chicagoan stuck on active duty in Iraq on the day of the test, you are out of luck getting hired as a Chicago fireman or policeman for years to come. And since the EEOC’s Four-Fifths rule doesn’t apply to military enlistment tests, such as the heavily g-weighted AFQT, Chicago is missing out on its most promising source of future policemen and firemen. But if Chicago offered the test online at the same time it was being given in Chicago, who would proctor the test-takers in the middle of the night in Iraq and Afghanistan?

That’s an interesting question, but it’s a complete sideshow for what’s really going on. Post-Ricci, the politicians can’t fudge the results as much, so now they want to get rid of the test.
“We’re [now] reviewing our options on how to administer the police application process.”

Other sources confirmed that the police entrance exam could be scrapped altogether “to open up the process to as many people as possible.” A final decision could be made later this week.

Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Donahue said the idea “sounds too stupid to be true.” “You need a testing process. … You need to be very concerned about the very limited information you would get from just a screening and application process,” Donahue said.

Something that is completely overlooked but that is totally obvious when you stop to think about it is that civil servant unions, who are always demonized by Republicans, are one of the few effective forces actively working against affirmative action in big cities. The head of the union always has some name like “Donahue,” and union policies work to keep older white civil servants from being fired in the name of making the government work force “look more like Chicago.” This is particularly true for teachers unions, whose leaders all remember when black politicians got local control of New York public schools in the Ocean Hill neighborhood in the late 1960s, and immediately fired hundreds of Jewish schoolteachers and hired blacks to replace them.

Hiring and promotions in the Police and Fire Departments have generated controversy in Chicago for as long as anyone can remember.

The criticism reached a crescendo in 1994 after a sergeants exam produced just five minority promotions out of 114.

The test was the first to be administered by the city after “race-norming” — the practice of adjusting scores on the basis of race — was ruled unconstitutional.

In November 2005, City Hall announced plans to offer the police entrance exam a record four times the following year — and for the first time on the Internet — after an unprecedented outreach campaign that bolstered the number of minority applicants to 34 percent black, 24 percent Hispanic and 26 percent women.

More than two years later, black ministers told newly-appointed Police Supt. Jody Weis that, if he was serious about re-establishing trust between police and the black community, he should start by hiring and promoting more African Americans.

NBCChicago adds:

And as of last year, one in four patrol officers were African-American, but just one in 12 Lieutenants were of color.

Let me point out that, to get around the EEOC’s Four-Fifth’s Rule, Chicago has already almost completely emasculated its police and fire tests, in order to make the disparity between white and black passing rates (as innumerately measured by the feds) less than one-fifth. Chicago’s last fire and police tests were passed by 85% of the people who walked in off the street. What’s the point of even giving a test so easy that people at the fifth percentile among whites pass?

So, why not give up on testing completely? That’s the logical implication of the EEOC’s Four-Fifth’s Rule.

As Steve Farron pointed out in The Affirmative Action Hoax, honest racial quotas would be better than abolishing testing. You’d at least get the smartest of each race.

Considering that Barack Obama taught “Racism and the Law” (not, by the way, “Race and the Law”) at the University of Chicago and litigated disparate impact lawsuits in Chicago, somebody might want to ask the President of the United States his opinion on this subject.

But don’t count on that ever happening.

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Black Little League Team Loses Championship Because Of Cheating

Will there be cries of racism? Yes!

ESPN: Little League Baseball has stripped the U.S. championship from Chicago-based Jackie Robinson West and suspended its coach for violating a rule prohibiting the use of players who live outside the geographic area that the team represents, it was announced Wednesday.

MORE: Jackie Robinson West was the first all-African-American team to win the championship, and some are saying that racism influenced the Little League’s decision.

Venisa Green, mother of JRW player Brandon Green, says that there were three investigations, and twice the allegations were unfounded.

“The decision of Little League was not good enough until the powers that be bullied Little League into getting the decision that they ultimately wanted,” Venisa Green said.

Fr. Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina parish singled out Chris Janes of Evergreen Park for a “witch hunt,” with Pfleger indicating he thought the allegations were racially motivated.

“I can’t help but wonder the question if the same thing would have been done with another team from another place, another race,” said Rev. Michael Pfleger, St. Sabina Church.

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