My mother’s family were all engineers and independent conservative businessmen. I grew up with relatives who flew their own planes, owned their own companies, built their own houses, fixed their own cars. They traveled the world and brought back pictures, stories and piles of exotic coins for me to play with. They gave me books and broadened my horizon immeasurably.
The blacks I knew were visited by recently released felons, people who had never held a job and drug addicts. I think if you’d raised them in my household and they’d never known their family they’d have done at least as well. (I got 3.0’s without trying and this was long before grade inflation. I got 4.0’s when I tried. I have owned two businesses. I own everything I have outright. I’ve published 57 articles and four of my 10 novels.)
The most successful black I know was helping me with a video project. I was at his house. Not one family member has a key to his house. He wouldn’t let his mother stay with him when he was recovering from an operation. He said, “They’d steal me blind.” Wow.
Notice the disconnect when they said that minorities generally do less well because they are generally poor...then a few sentences later they said that white poor kids out tested rich black kids by a wide margin?
Also, why do they never talk about asians when they talk about minorities? Aren’t asians even more minority than the minorities?
Wow, talk about not trusting your family. Also, congratulations on your successes. What are your books on and what were your businesses?