I supported affirmative action in college admissions in the '60s also, but that was then and this is now. I was part of a student advisory committee at Temple to make suggestions on how to get more Blacks into graduate schools. But, times have changed and the necessity to make concessions because of race has changed too. In the past 40 years, with supposedly equal opportunity to public school education, all races should have equal opportunity.
Whose fault is it if the inner city public schools are failing Black kids? Chances are those same schools aren't doing much for white students either. It's not skin color, it's the school system that is holding kids back from success.
Whose fault is it if the inner city public schools are failing Black kids?Actually, a pretty damning case has been made over the past 35 years, that black educators are at fault for black educational failure. A white fellow recently published a long report at Front Page Mag on his attempt to help by teaching for Teach for America, in the public schools of his hometown, Washington, D.C. At one point, a black teacher aide from another class barged into his class, and announced in front of the guy's black students, "I'll kick your white ass!" (Nothing happened to the aide.)
See also the section "Explaining Black Academic Failure," in:
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