Two words, Democrats and unions. So if someone were preventing a black person from achieving we would recognize that as a harm. Yet, somehow, this very obvious thing is not acknowledged.
Via NY Post:
When Donald Sterling told his mistress not to bring African-Americans to Los Angeles Clippers games, the story went viral — and Sterling was banned for life by the National Basketball Association.
Meanwhile, New York City runs a school system in which only a fraction of African-American children are taught anything. It’s a systemwide failure that cuts these children off from the opportunities of this century and condemns them to life on the margins of the American Dream.
About this there is no outrage. No one loses his job. Even though the numbers are scandalous.
According to the Regents exams, only 11 percent of black males who leave a New York City high school with a diploma are ready for college. In the lower grades — third through eighth — only 15 percent of African-American students are proficient in math and reading. The National Assessment of Educational Progress finds roughly the same, with only 18 percent of New York City’s African-American eighth-graders proficient in reading and 13 percent in math.
The high failure rate means one of two things. Either black children can’t learn, or the city has a school system wildly out of whack with what kids need.
Plainly black children can learn. Because at other schools, they are learning.