The reason these people aren't prepared to enter college has nothing to do with racism. It has solely to do with lack of effort. All the screaming about our crummy school system (and much of it is) aslo doesn't wash as a reason for these people to be ill-prepared. It is common for poor Asian and other students to attend these same crummy schools and move on to higher education.
Consider the case of a brand new school built in a blighted urban area. This is a state of the art facility which opens with the best of everything, including staff. Within a few years, the maintenence crews have all but given up on repairing graffitti and vandalism, the staff realizes that a too large percent of the students have no desire to learn and those who do can't function in the environment of disfunction and fear created by gang bangers and others. The best staff leave to better assignments, the school is run down and can't attract good teachers, the student body has ceased to be educated and then......................Maxine Waters screams the schools are failing and need more money.
Larry Elder tells a story about a time he went to the library and a bunch of black kids were outside the library on skateboards. Their moves were awesome, they were very good on the skateboard and had obviously practiced a lot to get those moves down. Larry entered the library and what did he see? A bunch of Korean kids...STUDYING. Larry's point was, who's going to succeed later on in life, those black kids who spent their time perfecting skateboard moves, or the Korean kids who studied?
Consider the case of a brand new school built in a blighted urban area...Within a few years, the maintenence crews have all but given up on repairing graffitti and vandalism, the staff realizes that a too large percent of the students have no desire to learn and those who do can't function in the environment of disfunction and fear created by gang bangers and others. The best staff leave to better assignments, the school is run down and can't attract good teachers, the student body has ceased to be educated... and then......................Maxine Waters screams the schools are failing and need more money.
This is exactly what happened to my high school in the inner city of Chicago! When I started as a freshman, it was a brand, spanking new school, just built. When I graduated four years later, it was a dump...broken windows, graffiti, it had been totally trashed. All the good teachers had left in disgust. There were frequent riots, during which the principal would lock himself in his office and cower in terror. No female white student dared walk across the front courtyard of the school alone. You had to have some male relative meet you after school and walk you across. Needless to say, there wasn't a lot of learning going on. You just tried to survive day by day.