[Mr. Douglas]

I a good number of the people from a specific group are allowed into college on grounds other than merit, then, in the end, that group, on average, will be lower performers because lower performance raw material was allowed into the program.

This is not rocket science.

[frog in a pot]

Your #2 is certainly logical, however, the author's bottom line seems to absolve the education system:

...but the real source of the black/white wealth disparity probably owes more to the marriage gap than to those things. The Aspen Institute should focus on that.

In any event:
The Aspen Institute should focus on that.
The Black community should focus on that.

[bar sin·is·ter]

They also major in useless degrees such as Urban and African Studies.

[Ohioan]

You make an accurate point--as far as it goes. But forget for a moment that "affirmative action," is an idiotic denier of reality, always doomed to fail in one way or another. Where did anyone get the insane idea that College is supposed to be an equalizer? Where?

No one reading this, ever sat next to their equal in any classroom, unless it was their identical sibling. No one. We all differ in our complex of aptitudes, motivations, energy, etc. Egalitarianism is the insane enemy of human progress--and always has been. Note: The Greatest Mischief Ever Wrought. The pursuit of equal outcomes from very different individuals is both insane & evil. It focuses the victims on grievances--imagined grievances--never on the best path to prosperity. It is as bad as any addictive narcotic, in its destructive consequences.

[Lionheartusa1]

They can’t make a living on Anti-American indoctrination and Anti-American propaganda .