[C19fan]

Others, including the NAACP, say it's partly the way schools identify the students. They want to see broader criteria used in identifying prospective gifted students and a more flexible screening policy that considers student populations at the school level and not just the district level in hopes that such factors as socioeconomic status would be better addressed.

Another dumbing down affirmative action programs. Then when these students enrolled in the program due to "flexible screening" start getting F's the NCAA will be back screaming racism. Then the gifted program will be dumbed down so these students can pass. Then kids with affluent parents who want to achieve will flee the public school system for private school. In the Richmond area, people move to Henrico and Chesterfield counties to escape the Richmond public schools. Even in very nice parts of City of Richmond itself the white kids go to private schools leaving the public schools almost all black. Of course, the real reason is unmentionable: the whole anti-education attitude of African-American youths who think being smart is acting like "whitey".

[RobbyS]

IMHO, the main problem is black culture, which is thoroughly anti-intellectual, and which denegates academic achievement,or to use terms that used to be fashionable admires “right-brained” abilities and disdains “left-brained” abilities. Jews, of course, are the opposite. So lots of black athletes and few Jewish ones. Now I have fit musical talents into this scheme. Do you think it washes if I compare a musician like Louis Armstrong with one like George Gershwin?