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 Some of you will remember that Walter Scott was shot in the back while running from police. But do you know why he was running? If your definition of "stability in the household" revolves around marital status or cohabitation, rather than this systemic racism minefield presented to the parents, I urge you to reflect on that. I mean, half of y'all's parents are divorced. 🤷🏿♂️ That's clearly not the issue. 8 comments
People looking to minimize the impacts of racism, believe that Black teachers help through the "role model effect." That's part of it but not the whole story. There are few enough Black teachers in this country, that we can literally ask a good portion of them what's really happening. It's not just the role model effect. Teachers are shielding Black kids from racism. Until they can't anymore... The typical education experience for a Black boy in the United States, is to have almost all white teachers, mostly women, more than half of whom vote for the most racist candidate on any ballot, and no Black teachers. The teachers have low expectations of you, punish you more than your classmates, and threaten to call the cop who works in the hallway on you at any moment. I don't know how to explain more clearly, that this is never going to work. I'm not surprised that Black US kids don't perform as well as white US kids, or as well as Nigerian, Ghanaian, Kenyan, or Caribbean kids. I'm surprised that any Black kids make it through this hellish gauntlet at all. When you look at how much the US pays to educate each student, and how poorly it does at Black educational achievement, it's clear that the US is the worst country in the world at educating Black students, by far. Because racism. No one spends more to achieve less. Once you understand white US history instead of Black history, you'll understand why the following interventions will do much more to improve US Black educational achievement than most of the nonsense we're trying today: • Bail reform |
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Another comparison is white Europeans, who don't face this racism minefield.
4 out of 10 EU kids are born to unmarried parents. In France, closer to 6 / 10. Lower the marriage rate, the more men participate in childcare!👍🏿♥️
We call them "progressive."
https://www.statista.com/statistics/276802/births-out-of-wedlock-in-the-eu/