As you may know, over the past few years a national testing firm has assessed educational progress in about 20 U. S. cities including many with large black student enrollments. (see Internet search engines for detailed results) Blacks have not obtained high scores on these exams and recently the students in Detroit Public Schools got the lowest grade ever, a 199, on a math test.

The test-giving officials were "shocked" at these results, and flew in from out of town to tell us that. Local reaction was immediate and profound from every source imaginable. A leading Detroit parents organization at an annual membership meeting recommended the jailing of the math teachers responsible for this debacle. Attendees at the dinner downtown stood up and cheered this demand. To date we have not heard any response, (e. g. no establishment of a legal defense fund, etc.) protests or picketing from Detroit's math teachers concerning their pending incarceration, but we will be happy to make a report to you when they do.

In the meanwhile to meet the need for remedial action we have formed a parallel testing modality to practice and promote academic excellence in the African-American community nation-wide. We also go by the initials NAEP, but our initials stand for Negroes Ain't Educationally Proficient.

Our premier test is provided without solicitation from the Financial Overseer of the Detroit Public School System, the Detroit Board of Education, black community leaders, (who were also shocked, dismayed, bewildered, confused, dumbfounded and defensive about the math test results) or the parents group that suggested prison sentences for the teaching challenged.

The NAEP Urban-Oriented, Social Studies Test Questions:

1. Can the notorious Sam Riddle, defendant with multiple charges in a Detroit bribery case, get a fair trial in the U. S. Federal District Court in Detroit? True - False - Maybe yes - Maybe no?

2. Sam Riddle, the elder activist, political lobbyist and media analyst, will be found guilty because...

    a. the judge is prejudiced against him
        b. he won't have a jury of his peers
               c. he's a scapegoat for the federal judicial system
                       d. he's an uppity, loud-mouthed negro
                               e. all of the above

3. No Synagro Technologies, Inc. executives in the bribery scandal in Detroit have been indicted because....

    a. they're rich
        b. they're white
               c. they're republicans
                       d. they're males
                               e. all of the above

4. The Innocence Project has won the release of a number of incarcerated, innocent men who were proven innocent through DNA testing. Those proven innocent have been overwhelmingly,

    a. native american
        b. hispanic
               c. white
                       d. black

5. The longest imprisonment of an innocent black man in the U. S. so far has been....

    a. 3 minutes
        b. 20 years
               c. 35 years
                       d. 100 years

6. The State of Illinois stopped capital punishment because.....

   a. it wanted to conserve electricity
        b. its electric chair wore out
               c. it ran out of negroes to electrocute
                       d. the Innocence Project found so many inmates
                          on death row who were not guilty

7. The City of Detroit is over $300 million in debt and recently borrowed $250 million in tax anticipation bonds. To meet this fiscal disaster the 9 member Detroit City Clowncil should cut its salary .....

   a. 10%
        b. 25%
               c. 50%

You have 10 seconds to answer. Wrong! They should cut their salaries by 100% like Mayor David Bing cut his salary and donate their combined salaries to those who have had, or are going to have, their heat, water or electricity turned off. Or to the 20,000 homeless people in Detroit, or to the orphans in Haiti. We at NAEP, negroes ain't educationally proficient, believe in trick questions and trick answers.

8. This light skin brother (not Barack Obama) went to apply for a job. He had a Ph. D., an MBA, an M.D. and an LLB. He took the written test and passed with flying colors. (No pun intended.) They took him into a small room and sat him at a table and told him to get ready for his oral exam. A zen master entered the room and asked the first question in Chinese, the second in Japanese and the third in Korean? Then the master got up, bowed and left the room. What was the non-Ebonics, articulate response the light skin brother gave to the questions?

Ans. - It looks like I'm not qualified for this job either.

9. Another light skin brother (still not Barack Obama) with similar credentials took the same written test and he also passed. But he knew what had happened to the other black man at the oral exam, so he mastered Chinese, Japanese and Korean? When he went into the room for his oral exam he found a note on the table. What did it read?

Answer: Unemployment in Detroit is 50%. Did you really think we had a job for you? Our corporate headquarters has been moved to Japan, the factory to China, supplies will come from Mexico, oil from the Middle East, raw materials from Africa and the financial capital from European Union banks and sovereign wealth funds. And now a security officer will escort your light skin behind off the premises.

If you wish to take our next test, check out our website: projectbait.blakgold.net or youtube.com - projectbaitdet (in search box). But, in the meanwhile, send us your answers to the questions #1 - #6. You may also submit test questions to the NAEP for inclusion in our next exam c/o projectbait.blakgold.net or youtube.com - projectbaitdet.

Peace out. All questions courtesy of NAEP, Negroes Ain't Educationally Proficient, an equal opportunity, academic testing, afro-centric organization. Any similarity to any other test or procedure, living or dead, is purely coincidental.