"(f) He learned his mama a ho [??!!]"

When Catholic U. racially sensitized the SAT !!

Adapted from this source: D'Souza, Dinesh. Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus. New York: Macmillan, Inc., 1991.

Pages 44 - 45

"A number of studies show that the SAT is a fairly reliable indicator of college preparation.

"Robert Klitgaard of Harvard concludes that standardized tests do quite well, usually better than any other criteria, at predicting academic success at selective universities.

"The main evidence against the SAT is that some of its questions include words like sonata, Alps, and travelogue.

"Critics maintain that classical music, skiing, and foreign vacations are all activities that whites predominantly engage in; blacks (and, it is sometimes added, women) cannot be expected to be familiar with these terms, and this introduces cultural bias.

"But College Board President Donald Stewart, who is black, says it's reverse racism that holds certain assumptions about what a race or a gender should know.

"The [SAT] test he argues, is preparation for words and terms and ideas that students are likely to encounter in college, whatever their cultural background."

Enter a so -called American Catholic university!!

"James Loewen of Catholic University, who alleges cultural bias in testing, gives an example of an alternate SAT question that would be more comprehensible to blacks:

"Saturday Ajax got an LD:

(a) He had smoked too much grass
(b) He tripped out on drugs
(c) He brought her to his apartment
(d) He showed it off to his fox
(e) He became wised up.....

"[Catholic University's] Loewen's example seems to confirm Stewart's claim that this line of criticism stereotypes blacks.

"His model presumes [as does that of the majority of so - called American Catholic Bishops today, with their "Black Catholic Theology" crock-ola] that blacks are most at home in the world of slang, womanizing, and drugs.

"Why a familiarity with this [pimp'n ho] vocabulary is a good preparation for college, Loewen does not say.

"Such a debate, however, must focus on what intellectual criteria the test seeks to measure, and then examine how well it achieves this goal.

"It seems no more an argument against the SAT that average group scores don't turn out equal, than it is an indictment of the 100 - yard dash to point out that whites disproportionately hit the finishing tape last.

"Inequality of results does not by itself prove that the measurement is biased or inadequate.

"Asian Americans seem to have no problem with the SAT..."