The education establishment reinforces that and sets it in motion from an early age. “Black score should aren’t very good? Lower standards.”
Five years later: Black performance hasn’t improved? Lower the standards.
Five years later? Black admissions to college haven’t improved and they are arriving unprepared? Remedial classes at the sixth grade level for two years.
Repeat, repeat, repeatand repeat again. My sister has taught math for almost forty years and has seen it all. As you say, it is the “soft bigotry of low expectations.”
“Repeat, repeat, repeat and repeat again.”
Well, while the government has been both nefarious and disingenuous with Blacks, I am left wondering just who is to blame for the destruction of the nuclear Black family?
I forget who postulated that the raising of the Black population from their humble beginnings would rest on ten percent of Blacks becoming successful, that they would “pull” the rest along, and after a couple of generations, voila!, everything would be hunky dory. Well that hasn’t happened, and who’s to blame? Well for openers, successful Blacks, by and large, have not “helped” the less fortunate of their number in any meaningful way. Then you top that failure with the government’s “Great Society Programs,” which really were set up to “warehouse” Black people rather than really help them. Take your pick.