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Calibrating Your Equivocation

July 25, 2009 - 8:00 am - by Roger Kimball
NC mountain girl
2009-07-26 16:24:24

I take the history of racial injustice in America seriously, too. That is why I protest when a poseur and over petted attention seeker like Gates smears a cop who was just doing his job in order to generate a market for a documentary for PBS.

If you want a current example of injustice in America, let’s talk about the Chicago Sun Times series last fall about ongoing physical abuse of students in the Chicago Public School. None one in the national press cared. No one called then CEO of the school system Arne Duncan a racist or even a hypocrite. They applauded when Obama named him Secretary of Education.

Then there is the earlier example of how Obama and his buddy Bill Ayers used grant money meant to help improve academic performamce to promote a system of community school boards that placed the race of principals over competence and the ability to maintain discipline in the schools.

The biggest remaining racial issue in America is how black academic achievement has declined despite the large fortune thrown at the public school system. Maybe, just maybe, the crap being pushed by Afrocentrists like Gates and so call educators like Duncan and Ayers has something to do with thsi decline.