(04-17-2017 06:49 AM)ChooChoo Wrote:  

(04-14-2017 11:16 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(04-14-2017 04:46 PM)ChooChoo Wrote:  

(04-14-2017 04:02 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(04-14-2017 03:36 PM)GreenHornet33 Wrote:  Auburn was a bad example. Auburn is notorious for having a small black student population. Auburn's black student population is 7%. Both ASU and A&M have white student populations greater than that.

A state with 26% black population, and the land-grant flagship public school only has 7% black students???

Maybe when you look at the number of Alabama high school students apply to college, the % of black students in that pool drops dramatically?? But I agree, on its face without further investigation, that number seems pathetic.

Oh, I have another example for you.
African American population of Georgia as of 2010 - 30.5%
UGA - 7.5%
GT - 7.5%
GaSouthen - 26.5%
GSU - 40%

This is no mistake by the board of regents either.

Is the mistake being made by the board of regents or by the black population of Georgia for not taking academics seriously?

I mean the black kid that grew up on the farm down the street from me and our farm ended up going to Harvard on a full ride and became a lawyer and now judge because he knew his best chance off the farm was academics. I can't think of a black peer in high school, male or female, who took academics seriously who hasn't succeeded.

At some point the black population of this country needs to quit blaming everything on slavery and Jim Crow and take a deep look at their own culture.

WHOA! "the black population of this country needs to quit blaming everything on slavery and Jim Crow and take a deep look at their own culture", that's quite a loaded statement. Let's look at this UGA mission statement first:
"dedicated to serving a diverse and well-prepared student body, to promoting high levels of student achievement, and to providing appropriate academic support services"...
"Through its programs and practices, it seeks to foster the understanding of and respect for cultural differences necessary for an enlightened and educated citizenry. It further provides for cultural, ethnic, gender, and racial diversity in the faculty, staff, and student body."
http://www.uga.edu/profile/mission/

http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/uga...s-program/
This article says they've been trying for years but they're having a hard time getting black males to enroll. Only 3% at the time of this article. So how can a flagship university, with grants and departments designed to promote diversity only fill 3% of their student body from African American males in a state that is 1/3 black? Again, on the football field they practice what they preach. Pretty sure academic standards hasn't kept a 4 or 5 star prospect from enrolling in quite some time.
You can believe what you want and you can say what you want, but it doesn't make it the truth. If these institutions of higher learning wanted to be representative of their state they could be doing a lot more to reflect it.
Why is it GS and GSU have the solution to serving more diverse student populations but UGA can't figure it out? It doesn't keep out athletes. Either people are being naive or you fail to admit that it is possible that institutional discrimination still exist out there. GPA's and SAT's are important when they choose for them to be important.

So explain exactly how it's UGA's fault that black males aren't enrolling, especially when you mention they have been trying for years to increase their number.

As for why Georgia State and Southern "have it figured out"......what's the difference in the entrance requirements between them and UGA?

And trying to tie athletics into the picture is a red herring because just about everybody has a different set of standards for athletics.