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>>"I'm having my doubts his work is going to motivate African-American parents and kids."

It's sad that when they pay an expert to do just what he did, they don't want to hear the answers.

The truth hurts sometimes. If you don't want to know the truth, don't ask the questions. How can you grow as a person or society if you are unwilling to listen to truth and change?

OK, blacks think that getting good grades and speaking standard english are "white" social traits? In what way are the parents concerned that the kids aren't succeeding? They ARE succeeding from the black point of view, aren't they? They are "retaining their identity" by becoming failures and dropouts. Isn't that black success? When you promote the idea that hard work, success, and good grades are racial traits of a race other than your own, why are you suprised when your children fail??

I don't understand why the parents were concerned about their kids' success in school to the point that they had Ogbu come to study them. In fact, the kids are living out their parent's social notions perfectly. They are becoming all they can't be, which is apparently of value to the black community.