{"id":11915,"date":"2013-07-17T18:21:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T18:21:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-07-17T18:21:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T18:21:20","slug":"the_left_does_not_have_the_best_interests_of_black_america_at_heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/07\/17\/the_left_does_not_have_the_best_interests_of_black_america_at_heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left Does Not Have the Best Interests of Black America at Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/51352\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Rachel Jeantel was on television with somebody, and she said that she\u2019s educated. She has a 3.0 GPA.  At her high school, I guess.  She\u2019s 19.  I don\u2019t know where she goes to school, but she said that it\u2019s wrong to think that she is uneducated.  She\u2019s got a 3.0.  I don\u2019t know in what.  Just overall GPA? Now, it leads to an editorial here in the Chicago Tribune about Chicago public schools. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chicago Public Schools officials revealed Tuesday that only 52.5% of the district\u2019s elementary students met or exceeded state academic standards in the last school year. That\u2019s a nearly 22-percentage-point plunge from a year earlier.&#8221;  That is horrible.  You know the numbers in New York, the dropout rate in New York high schools are 50%.  In Chicago, public school officials reveal that only 52.5% of elementary students in the district &#8220;met or exceeded academy standards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_78869\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushFlag2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And let\u2019s all acknowledge that academy standards ain\u2019t what they used to be.  So it\u2019s pretty pathetic that just barely over half of Chicago public school students with meeting current standards.  That is a 22% drop from just last year.  &#8220;Students didn\u2019t suddenly get less intelligent,&#8221; it says here.  &#8220;They were not doing as well in the past as everyone was led to believe. The state had dumbed down the tests and lowered cut scores to avoid sanctions from the federal No Child Left Behind Act. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Educators fed parents an illusion that the vast majority of Illinois elementary students &#8212; more than 8 out of 10 last year &#8212; were performing well. Fed the illusion that they were on track to succeed in high school and go to college. They weren\u2019t.&#8221;  They weren\u2019t learning anything, and that was being camouflaged.  They weren\u2019t learning anything, but that wasn\u2019t being reported.  The school district was doctoring everything so as not to lose federal money. <\/p>\n<p>As this editorial points out, &#8220;This isn\u2019t exactly news. We\u2019ve been talking about this for several years,&#8221; they say here at the Chicago Tribune. &#8220;The state finally moved last year to toughen the Illinois Standards Achievement Test in anticipation of meeting new national standards known as the common core curriculum.  Chicago has now reported its results, the first indication of how much inflation was going on with the ISAT.  We don\u2019t know yet how big the drop will be across the state, but you can count on shock from Zion to Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Illinois State Board of Education has preliminary figures but says it won\u2019t release them until final figures are available in the fall,&#8221; when everybody\u2019s forgotten about this. &#8220;The board, which took a lot of heat in pushing through the higher standards, should release the preliminary figures now,&#8221; the paper says, &#8220;instead of letting them trickle out district by district.  The results will be ugly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thousands of students statewide who were rated as meeting standards in 2012,&#8221; just last year, &#8220;will not make the cut in 2013,&#8221; and their work is no different.  Their work has been pathetic, their performance has been pathetic, and they\u2019ve been passed, and they\u2019ve been told that it\u2019s okay.  This was done for a number of reasons.  It wasn\u2019t just getting federal money.  It wasn\u2019t so the teachers would meet their performance examinations, and it would so the teachers would get raises.<\/p>\n<p>There are all kinds of reasons for this, but students weren\u2019t performing, and that was covered up, and it was covered up dramatically.  &#8220;Yes, as poorly as everyone thought Chicago schools were performing a decade ago, the reality was much worse.  The current results show the achievement gap between minority and white students remains wide, and in some cases even wider than in past years,&#8221; and what this means is that African-American students are in even worse shape than the district-wide average. <\/p>\n<p>Now, this, to me, is inexcusable. <\/p>\n<p>Who runs these organizations? <\/p>\n<p>Who runs these districts? Who comes up with these requirements? Who then comes up with these techniques to avoid proper assessment?  It\u2019s leftists, folks.  See, this, to me, is one of the starting points for discussing race, because what we\u2019re talking about here is how the people in charge &#8212; the people who claim to have their best interests at heart &#8212; are not educating them.  They\u2019re simply not being taught.  I\u2019m sure Rachel Jeantel thinks she has a 3.0.  She believes she\u2019s got a 3.0, and somewhere she probably does.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=11919\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_78877\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zimmerman-RachelJeantel.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it ain\u2019t a 3.0 that is recognized as a 3.0 by current standards.  But she\u2019s got one.  Which is the point.  Rachel Jeantel and people like her are being&#8230; What\u2019s the word? Exploited? Ill served? What\u2019s the term?  Used?  Thrown away?  They\u2019re being dumbed down.  They\u2019re being thrown away.  They have no choice.  They\u2019re not learning anything.  At the same time, they think they know it all, and that nobody else knows anything. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s compounded.  At the same time, they think they\u2019re on the cutting edge.  They think they\u2019re trend-setters.  They aren\u2019t being prepared.  Nobody really cares about them, and the people who don\u2019t really care about them somehow get away with being thought of and perceived as their protectors and as their guarantors! It\u2019s just a shame.  It is an absolute crime.  And then, &#8220;Rush, don\u2019t talk about it.  Rush, you can\u2019t talk about it. You\u2019re not supposed to go there.  There\u2019s nothing to be gained here.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The sad thing is, that\u2019s probably true.<\/p>\n<p>But at least when I finish I think I\u2019ve given it a shot, what little shot it can be from a radio show. But still, I feel like I have given it a shot.  Do you remember all those stories that came out of Atlanta about the same thing? The teachers and the superintendents and so forth were changing the grades, literally elevating the grades of the students so that better results would be shown so that everybody involved would end up getting more money &#8212; the district, the teachers, the superintendents. <\/p>\n<p>While it was a scandal, and it was perceived and reported as a scandal, the real scandal was not commented upon, and that was the damage done to the students.  I remember one of the interesting characteristics or facets of the story out of Atlanta was the students, some of them, were outraged that they\u2019d been short-changed.  Some students had the presence of mind to understand, &#8220;You mean they gave me an A and I didn\u2019t qualify for it?&#8221; They didn\u2019t want that.  They didn\u2019t know anything. <\/p>\n<p>They had not been taught anything. <\/p>\n<p>They had not learned and actually passed tests that qualified them for an A, and some of them spoke out and were upset about it.  And the people doing this are the ones that care about them, the ones that love them, the ones that are protecting them against all this racism out there.  The people responsible for this are the ones supposedly looking out for \u2019em, and the ones doing all this are destroying their futures.  They aren\u2019t teaching \u2019em anything and they\u2019re not preparing them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_78878\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaHeadinSandAmericaPIX2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, they\u2019re filling their minds with a bunch of destructive things.  I\u2019m gonna tell you something, and I fully expect to get in trouble for this. (interruption) Well, that got their attention in there.  It probably got your attention, too.  So we\u2019ve got this piece by David Goldman in which he asks, &#8220;What Do You Do When the Oppressed are Their Own Worst Oppressors?&#8221; He\u2019s a civil rights activist from back in the fifties, and he says that the greatest damage being done to blacks in America is being done by other blacks. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the summary of what he\u2019s saying, and then this piece out of Chicago with what\u2019s happening in the school district there, and that comes after what\u2019s happened in Atlanta, and then you go to New York where the dropout rate\u2019s 50%, and you look at how much money is being spent per student to educate them and you look at the results &#8212; and, folks, it\u2019s just unacceptable.  I\u2019d call it criminal. We\u2019re talking about American kids here!  We\u2019re talking about Americans gonna grow up clueless.<\/p>\n<p>Worse than clueless, they\u2019re gonna grow up thinking things that are absolutely no use.  They\u2019re gonna grow up thinking things that end up being destructive for them.  When I watch cable news, and I see a guest from the left wing of the civil rights movement &#8212; I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s a Columbia professor or a University of Pennsylvania professor or some activist &#8212; it appears to me, in listening to them and watching them, that they don\u2019t think that there is anything good or positive or enriching or joyful about being a black person in America.<\/p>\n<p>All I see is anger and rage and dissatisfaction.  They just don\u2019t seem happy, and it\u2019s depressing.  Of all the places in the world&#8230; See, this is where I get in trouble. Of all the places in the world where enjoying life to the fullest extent possible&#8230; Of all the places where you can do that, it\u2019s this country.  But, see, that\u2019s where it breaks down.  Because while they\u2019re not taught anything in school, and while they got grade inflation, they\u2019re also told stories about how rotten this country is. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe it isn\u2019t any wonder why they\u2019re not happy. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe it isn\u2019t any wonder why they\u2019re not positive or forward thinking. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s something I\u2019ve noticed for a long time.  I don\u2019t have to mention names to you.  There are exceptions.  It\u2019s not universal.  But on the political side, there just doesn\u2019t seem to be any joy, any happiness, anything good or positive about being a black person in America.  I wonder, &#8220;My gosh, are they teaching young kids that?&#8221;  It\u2019s profoundly dispiriting and depressing, and that\u2019s what made me remember. I think it was Alistair Cooke, the British historian, who said that, in his Letters to America, that America would never overcome the original sin of slavery. <\/p>\n<p>There was nothing they could do, nothing we Americans could do, that would ever put that in the rearview mirror &#8212; and that\u2019s depressing, too.  &#8216;Cause going back to the first thing I said about this, we all only have one life.  In the United States of America, to see so many lives not even get close to realizing full potential and dreams, it\u2019s just really depressing \u2019cause it\u2019s so unnecessary. To think that this exists because of a set of circumstances is helpful to some people, the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Rachel Jeantel was on television with somebody, and she said that she\u2019s educated. She has a 3.0 GPA. At her high school, I guess. She\u2019s 19. I don\u2019t know where she goes to school, but she said that it\u2019s wrong to think that she is uneducated. She\u2019s got a 3.0. 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