Comments on: Maclean’s Interview: Roland Fryer

By: Gladys

Gladys — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:41:28 +0000

I know I am commenting late but I just came across this article.

The truth hurts and I think Mr. Fryer is finally getting down to business. There is a terrible education crisis in this country and it can not be ignored anymore. It is survival for the fittest and for some reason African-Americans are falling by the way side.

I agree that genes have nothing to do with gaps in test scores. If you look at the amount of African (black immigrants coming in from Africa) you will see that their achievement is higher or equal to that of whites.

I believe that it is socio-culture that is holding the African-American community down. I am looking forward to the results of the incentives experiment.

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By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:11:11 +0000

After reading your very disappointing and at times revolting interview with Roland Fryer on race inequality, what bothered me the most was that Macleans would publish such an article. From it I understood that Roland has found a way to create a multi-million dollar research firm and perhaps profit from it considerably, while satisfying the investors with market research information masking it as education research. I found great irony in his comparison to Nike’s and other coorporations’ attempt at appealing to youth, when asked about his firm. Fryer’s responses were for the most part incomplete, empty and at times down right insulting, as if from a disconnected elitist’s point of view looking down on his subjects. I don’t believe that society needs any more of that, even if disguised by someone who proclaims to have “street-credentials”.
How can someone who’s area of study is economics possibly be an expert researcher on education and race?

Not dissapointed by the man, only that his useless self-promotion made it to your mazanine.

By: John

John — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:03:48 +0000

I find it somewhat disturbing that the interviewee starts out the interview by commenting how unrealistic a concept race is by using the one-drop analogy, then moving on to a discussion based upon race. Are the advantages of race more prevalence as the percentage of ‘black genes’ drops?

Geneticists have pretty well disproven the concept of race as a biological entity. By leaving it as a social construct, it remains the field of racism. Recent studies have also that poverty has an effect on brain development similar to stroke. http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2008/12/081203092429.htm