Sometimes I fancied myself Tyrtaeus, the Spartan poet, who counseled the youth to honor and loyalty. I never had this kind intimacy with a black student, and I know of no other white teacher who did.
That alone makes the author either wildly incompetent or (more probably) a liar.
Every white urban teacher I know has had some success mentoring black students. And by mentoring, I don't mean just giving advice once or twice. I mean guiding the student on a regular, long-term basis.
In the broken urban school where I taught, there were certainly more mentoring failures than there were mentoring successes. But there were successes, many of them.
The author claims that he knows of no white teacher that has ever had success mentoring an urban black student. That claim alone makes the whole article suspect.
So because someone else may not have made the same type of connections you have, they’re incompetent, or a liar. Odd.
You really are hung up on the veracity of this one article. But let’s assume it’s skewed on the bad side, and your experience is skewed the other way, with reality being in the middle. Are we supposed to feel better about that?