Prometheus 6

I think I was nice to Juan Williams this morning because there's some stuff the Cosbyites need to hear. It came at the end of my little post.

What bothers me is that your comfort is supported by your discomforting Black folks both unnecessarily and counterproductively.

Fine, you gotta be twice as good, but don't demonize people for being merely human. Be clear you are not talking about solving the problems of the world. You can improve your thing without improving things by one iota, and this is the approach you suggest.

Be clear about that, I have little beef with The Cosbyites. Continue to confuse the issues and you do no one any favors.

Your rhetoric is damaging, and it's not necessary to spur the improvements you're looking for.

Affirmation of Worth Boosts Scores of Black Children

African-American schoolchildren who completed a brief writing assignment designed to reaffirm their sense of self-worth received higher grades at the end of the semester than those given a control intervention, a new study finds. These better-performing children closed the grade gap with their white peers by 40 percent, apparently because the assignment interrupted the harmful effects of declining performance early in the semester.