And by the way, don't insult me and my intellectual abilities, I'm just putting things back into perspective, as I'm black and I can't stand reading this 'Jenny' and Jojo bulls.

What on earth is an 'unnecessary race thread'????


I think it is quite important to discuss these issues, especially with regard to all the crap which has been said in this thread

Jenny and a couple of others have turned this into a 'race' thread, so dont talk BS

The 'Messias' has spoken...go home, loser.

If you have a look at demographic statistics you will find out why you have been the only black female on your Masters, not because of discrimination, but due to the relatively small number in comparison with other ethnic origins. It's too easy to make all these assumptions like 'Oh, I'm the only black female on my course, so all the others must have been subject to discrimination'

Oh, it's been so hard, poor little you.

I'm black too and I say that it's hard for everybody doing a PhD, regardless of colour!

You guys talk a lot of nonsense ('peak' at 20 and all that).
If you would not be so boring already, you could have more fun than the undergrads are having now.

Let's be honest: PhD students belong to the most boring species on earth.

Problem is: most of them think that only because they are PhD students or PostDocs means that should be really boring and behave like other boring professors who have no purpose in life apart from a long publication list.

Wake up and enjoy your life! Even if you are 35 or older.

In the words of Miami Vice: 'Life is short, live now, time is luck'

Even if it was your student..?

Vanity is not an indicator of very high intelligence.

It is part of the human lifecycle to get older and you should see it as a natural process rather than something horrible. People with such an attitude are the ones who pay loads of money for beauty operations and are shocked about the rubbish results afterwards.

I wish I was older, then I had more money on my account and probably a PhD!

Well, in that case you should start improving your proficiency level.
If it's in January you still got 4 weeks or more.
Read English books-out loud (when u r alone). After 500 pages and one week you will be amazed how much your English has improved.

Did you proofread your thesis before submission?

Apart from the fact that the Carribbean is a big area, comprising loads of countries and different cultures. You just make some ridiculuous statements which are testimony of a) a limited world view, b) no general knowledge and c) a tendency to generalise and simplify the world.

You also said "African students are good students". One of the biggest continents of the planet is for you suddenly comprised into one sentence, you ignore different educations systems, different cultures and different ethnic origins on that continent.

You and Jenny are both a joke and I say that as a BLACK person.

I am black and I call myself black and I generally dislike people who think they are nice in calling me "coloured" or whatever as that is discrimination, too. I would never call a white person, "colourless".

JoJo said: "students do very well in uni. the ones to don't make it are an exception. the issue seems to be the afro-carribbean students. they underperform."

What an amazing and discriminating statement.

Who are you to make this statement? I doubt that you are in the position to make this statement, even if you have teaching experience at one particular university.

JoJo, I'm sorry to read your views if they truly represent them.
Your statements are characterized by generalisations, not by facts.
You derive conclusions from generalisations and therefore I completely reject your entry.

Re-THINK!

I've followed this discussion from the distance. Some people ought to re-consider their own position and carefully ask themselves who is expressing the 'racist' statements and asking questions which exclude other people!

Sleep is the best medicine.