Lies surround racism in our public schools

by Lewis Loflin

An AP article "Report: Low Grad Rates in US Cities" was recently published April 1, 2008 in the Kingsport Times-News. It contrasted the massive differences in graduation rates in urban (mainly non-white) versus suburban (mainly white) school systems. Many urban schools have graduation rates as low as 30 percent, that experts called "a catastrophe." The problem here is what was not reported, and is typical for news organizations such as the AP that make political correctness a policy. The issue is race and its use as political issue to further promote socialism. The failure of the left has degenerated into Marxist' racism. See How Marxism became racism.

To quote,

Seventeen of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland...The report, issued by America's (www.americaspromise.org), found that about half of the students served by public school systems in the nation's largest cities receive diplomas. Students in suburban and rural public high schools were more likely to graduate than their counterparts in urban public high schools...

The report found troubling data on the prospects of urban public high school students getting to college. In Detroit's public schools, 24.9 percent of the students graduated from high school, while 30.5 percent graduated in Indianapolis Public Schools and 34.1 percent received diplomas in the Cleveland Municipal City School District...Many metropolitan areas also showed a considerable gap in the graduation rates between their inner-city schools and the surrounding suburbs. Researchers found, for example, that 81.5 percent of the public school students in Baltimore's suburbs graduate, compared with 34.6 percent in the city schools. In Ohio, nearly 83 percent of public high school students in suburban Columbus graduate while 78.1 percent in suburban Cleveland earn their diplomas, well above their local city schools...

Nowhere in this report was race brought into the discussion because of political correctness. But if one is not willing to discuss the problem, then there will be no chance of fixing it even if a "fix" was possible.

More data from the study:

• 52 percent of students in the 50 largest school districts on average fail to graduate with a high school diploma.
• The Detroit, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Baltimore school districts all had graduation rates below 40 percent.
• 13 school districts had graduation rates between 40 and 50 percent, including Minneapolis, Dallas, New York City, Denver, and Miami.

The study found that on average 58 percent of students in urban districts graduated compared to 75 percent of students in the suburban communities. For example, the principal Baltimore school district had a graduation rate of less than 50 percent. Suburban areas within the Baltimore municipality located adjacent to the principal school district had graduation rates of 70 to 80 percent and 80 to 90 percent. An area even further out from the principal school district had graduation rates of 90 to 100 percent.

Ten Cities of 100,000 or More with Highest Percentage of Blacks or African Americans, 2000

Chicago: Black 36.8%, Hispanic 26% According to the Chicago Tribune (July 5, 2006) the graduation rate was 53%.

Indianapolis population: white 69%, black 26%, Hispanic 4% but school enrollment is only 24% white, 76% non-white at 58% black. Free/reduced lunch 78%.

According to the study, of the 50 largest cities 34 graduation rates that were under 60%, these are under 50%:

Philadelphia City School District 49.6% rate. 87% non-white with 62% black. Mayor Michael A. Nutter is a black Democrat.

Miami Dade County School District 49.0% rate. 60% Hispanic, 28% black, 10% white. Mayor Manny Diaz is Hispanic Democrat.

Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Public Schools 47.5% rate. 68.4% White, 15.4% Black (2000), can't find school makeup along racial lines, but lots of accusations of segregation. If the pattern elsewhere holds true, the number of non-white students in its public schools far exceeds their percentage in population.

Denver County School District 46.3 rate. Going by the Colorado CSAP (here), whites made up about 18.6% of students in grade three from 2005-7. They scored 77% at/above proficiency in math while a whopping 62% of blacks/Hispanics scored below (or 38% proficient) with Indians even lower at 60% failed. This is a good general indicator of graduation rates. But by grade 10 in math all dropped badly. Whites still far out scored blacks/Hispanics with a proficiency of 37%, blacks/Hispanics and Indians at a crushing 4% in the same school system taking the same test.

Milwaukee Public Schools 46.1 rate. To quote The Achievement Gap in Milwaukee Public Schools: Outcomes by Gender, Race, and Income Level by Sammis White, Ph.D., "African-American males have a graduation rate of about 31%, and Hispanic males have an estimated graduation rate of 36%. The white male rate of graduation from MPS is estimated to be 66%...The MPS African-American female graduation rate is estimated at 46%, Hispanic female, 50%, and white female, 75%, in a state where the average overall graduation rate is 88.8%..." That's in the same school system, same teachers, same test!

To quote 'Crisis' graduation gap found between cities, suburbs by Greg Toppo on the 50 largest cities, Collectively, they educate 1.7 million high school students — about one in eight. Yet they account for nearly one in four students who don't graduate each year...

Mayor Shirley Franklin of Atlanta.
She is a black Democrat.

Kansas City School District 45.7 rate. Mayor Mark Funkhouser is a white Democrat.

Oakland Unified 45.6 rate. Mayor Ron Dellums is a black. To quote Wiki: "Dellums was the first African American elected to Congress from Northern California and the first openly socialist Congressman..."

Los Angeles Unified 45.3 rate. Mayor Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa is Hispanic, Democrat. 46.5% of the population is Hispanic. Villaraigosa was a leader of the racist hate group MEChA at UCLA. Much of the population doesn't speak English.

New York City Public Schools 45.2 rate. 85% of school system non-white. Mayor Democrat

Dallas ISD 44.4 rate. Mayor Tom Leppert is a Republican elected in 2007. Superintendent of Schools Michael Hinojosa is a Hispanic and produced the $64 million shortfall fiasco in 2008. Dallas is 51% white, 35.6% Hispanic, 25.9 black. (2000)

Minneapolis Public Schools 43.7 rate. Mayor R. T. Rybak is a white Democrat.

Columbus Public Schools 40.9 rate. 67.93% White, 24.47% black. Mayor Michael B. Coleman is a black Democrat.

Baltimore City Public School System 34.6 rate. Mayor Sheila A. Dixon is a black Democrat.

Cleveland Municipal City School District 34.1 rate. Mayor Frank G. Jackson is a black Democrat.

Indianapolis Public Schools 30.5% rate. 76% non-white, 58% black. Mayor Gregory A. Ballard is a white Republican.

Detroit City School District 24.9 rate. Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been there since 2001, is a Democrat, and is in jail. His mother, Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, represents Michigan's 13th District in the United States House of Representatives, and serves as the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus in the 110th United States Congress. Another Democrat.

Richmond, Virginia wasn't included in the top 50 largest cities, but its graduation rate is another appalling 47%. Mayor Douglas L. Wilder is a black Democrat and former state governor. In Washington D.C. every mayor since 1975 have been black Democrats including the drug using Marion Barry. Washington only graduates 58% of its students.

What conclusion can we come to?

1. The Democratic Party, the left wing teacher unions such as the NEA, and black/Hispanic leaders have conspired to produce the failures of their schools so as to advance a political agenda or to demand more funding from white Americans.
2. Or this failure is an integral facet of minority races be it culture or genetics. I prefer to believe culture, but regardless it's their problem and it's wrong to blame others. In other words even with equal treatment we still get unequal results. That's not racism.

What is liberal racism?

"Left liberal hallucinations about rampant racism are fed not just by indoctrination of the young on college campuses, but by almost daily news "reporting" that demands we see everything from individual medical conditions to public school test scores and access to the internet through the prism of race and ethnicity. All of these disparities can be traced to economic and educational achievement differences among individuals, arbitrarily grouped into demographic cohorts by those who demand we imagine racism as a master narrative explanation." In fact the "diversity industry" is a vast and profitable enterprise in itself.

Let us turn to the New York Times and use their facts and some reason. In the article "Study Says White Families' Wealth Advantage Has Grown" (Oct 18, 2004) they lament how the "enormous wealth gap between white families and black and Hispanic families grew larger" after the 2001 recession. Their their conclusion, "The fact that black and Hispanic wealth is a fraction of white wealth also reflects a history of discrimination."

There is no rational basis for that claim. As usual the NYT never separates legal Hispanics from illegal aliens, and ignores the impact of this on low-skilled jobs. But the other data in the article, derived from the Pew Hispanic Center, tells the real story; "Only white homes recouped all their losses from 2001 to 2002. Both Hispanics and blacks lost nearly 27 percent of net worth from 1999 to 2001; the next year Hispanics gained it almost all back (26 percent), while blacks were up only about 5 percent...Hispanics made employment gains in lower-paid, lower-skilled areas like service and construction. Blacks were hit hard by job losses in the manufacturing industry."

But thousands of white workers also lost their jobs in manufacturing as anyone in Tri-Cities Tennessee region can attest to. Many of the displaced white workers here had the very same problems for the simple reason of poor education. This is the real reason that displaced blacks from the same industries lost income, just like many poorly educated whites here did.

The second problem is massive immigration, most of it illegal, unskilled Hispanics, have displaced blacks and some whites from many of these lower-paid industries and have driven down wages across the entire service sector. The overall impact is far worse for blacks than whites. The New York Times failed to note that fact because they are a big advocates of open borders and illegal alien amnesty.

Their political agenda overrules the harm done to blacks and other poor people of all races, whom they care nothing about. These are economic issues and have nothing to do with racism, but more often class warfare. Yet these millions of illegal and legal Hispanics flooding into the school systems, along with blacks, are dragging the whole system down. Going by the school systems listed in the AP article, if school systems like Detroit (nearly all non-white), have graduation rates of 30 percent, then the 70 percent that dropped out are black and Hispanic. They make up most of the dropouts nationally. Is this not because of racism or exclusion, but a possible problem of IQ and self-inflicted stupidity such as children born out wedlock and choosing to drop out of school and using drugs.

Some data from the Manhattan Institute (www.manhattan-institute.org), a study paid for by Bill and Linda Gates:

70% of all students in public high schools graduate

51% of all black students graduate
52% of all Hispanic students graduate
54% American Indian students graduate
72% white students graduate
79% Asian students

To quote,

"Due to their lower college readiness rates, black and Hispanic students are seriously underrepresented in the pool of minimally qualified college applicants...the main reason these groups are underrepresented in college admissions is that these students are not acquiring college-ready skills in the K-12 system, rather than inadequate financial aid or affirmative action policies..."

So it isn't money and it isn't lack of rigging the system with affirmative action. I believe the black and Hispanic graduation rates are even worse than stated here because of fraudulent reporting on dropout rates used by many states under the No Child Left Behind program. They are moving to pass laws to enforce uniform reporting standards. (April 1, 2008 New York Times "U.S. to Require States to Use a Single School Dropout Formula") I believe the very low graduation in the urban schools in the AP article are more accurate for blacks and Hispanics in general, because these are schools mostly black and Hispanic to begin with. (And controlled by them and white liberals claiming the racism charges.) Let's turn again to the New York Times.

In a devastating article, "Most Students in Big Cities Lag Badly in Basic Science" (November 16, 2006), they made the mistake of placing white achievement rates beside that of black and Hispanic failures in the same schools systems, a PC no-no. The article concerned a study of ten cities (most of them also in the AP article) that fourth and eight graders to quote, "tested in science failed to demonstrate even a basic understanding of the subject..."

For blacks there was a 77 percent failure rate, for Hispanics it was 71 percent. But for whites in the very same schools, the success rate was 72 percent. The conclusion is obvious that in the same NEA and minority controlled school systems, with all students in the same schools and classrooms, about three-fourths of blacks and Hispanics fail while almost three-fourths of their white classmates pass. Are we to believe these school systems are conspiring to advance white students over minority students? (Asians were not included in the study, Atlanta didn't even report Hispanics and whites where 81 percent of blacks failed.)

It should be no surprise this mirrors graduation rates for whites in the suburbs as well. Whites in these urban schools did about as well as the graduation rates in suburban schools in the same income bracket. Fact: Over 50 years of integration, special programs, race quotas, etc. hasn't changed the fact that whites and Asians far outperform blacks and Hispanics taking the same classes in the same schools. It has nothing to do with schools and everything to do with the student.

Also see Race behind school score declines.

The New York Times also reported (August 27, 2007) that even for what few black and Hispanics even graduate, score far below whites on same college entrance exams. To quote, "Black students on average scored 433 in critical reading and 429 in math; the averages for Puerto Rican students were 459 and 454; and those for white students were 527 and 534...the overall results really foreshadow what the future will look like..." In other words as more minorities take the exam and get into college, overall average scores are expected to drop. That data also mirrors the data above in that whites far outscore blacks and Hispanics, while Hispanics do a little better than blacks. Let's look at Asians.

When the New York Times published "In Elite N.Y. Schools, a Dip in Blacks and Hispanics" (August 18, 2006), they again stirred controversy over race. The City created three advanced high schools and started a separate program to "prepare black and Hispanic students for the mind-bendingly difficult test that determines who gets into New York's three most elite specialized high schools..." In other words the idea to exclude whites and increase the number of "minorities" in these elite schools. Hispanic students are the largest group in the city's schools at 36.7 percent, and black students are next at 34.7 percent, 14.3 percent Asian, and 14.2 percent white.

The only problem was blacks and Hispanics still failed to achieve anything again and their numbers actually dropped instead. Since the schools were created about 10-12 years ago, blacks have plummeted to as low as 2.2 percent, Hispanics dropped as well, but Asians make up almost 61 percent in some of these elite schools. To quote another "useful idiot, "The statistics clearly show that black New Yorkers are being shut out." The entrance to the school requires an exam everyone has to take, so Asian immigrants have simply displaced less qualified blacks and Hispanics, while whites moved out.

To quote,

"Debate over the racial composition of the city's specialized schools, and the school's reliance not on interviews or grades but rather on a test alone to determine admissions, has captivated New York for decades. Supporters of the specialized exam, which tests verbal and math skills, say it ensures that admissions are based on merit, while critics argue that elite colleges would never judge applicants on test results alone."

In other words they want to rig the system with affirmative action and quotas like many colleges do. It should be noted that Asians, like whites, are barred from affirmative action programs.

Conclusion

At this point I'm sure the professional race-baiters are in a frenzy, go discuss it with the New York Times. Facts are not racism and the facts show that mythical white racism has nothing to do with the massive failure in most minority communities as proven by Asians. This is a society where education is the key to economic success and those unable or unwilling to get it have themselves to blame. Dropping out of school, using drugs, crime, and unwed motherhood are personal failures and the individual must be held responsible for, not society.

We also need to end this Marxist' dogma of "I'm a victim" and using false claims of racism merely to further a political agenda. We also need to take on the left and big business and shut down illegal immigration from displacing and lowering the wages of lower-skilled legal American citizens. So-called "minorities" are entitled to equal opportunity, they are not entitled to equal results. All racial preferences and programs must end, one standard for all.

To quote one opinion,

Scientists and Educators are beginning to realize that low intelligence is possibly due to genetic inheritance of historically low African American IQ levels... Some have suggested intermarriage with whites to raise black IQ levels, but many in both groups have found this to be a distasteful solution with fascist underpinnings. So, it is generally opposed. This leaves African Americans with a permanently low IQ with no hope of remediation, because IQ is not a function of education. The tragedy is found in the mere 17%-25% graduation rates in African American high school statistics as children with low IQ who are forced to act as though they have high IQ predictably fail, giving them feelings of low self-esteem and worthlessness, and may precipitate their later tendency toward violent criminal behavior.

The New York Times raises this alarm as well that IQ is genetic and not just cultural. In In DNA Era, New Worries About Prejudice (New York Times Nov. 11, 2007) the PC police are already going into panic mode. To quote,

Such developments are providing some of the first tangible benefits of the genetic revolution. Yet some social critics fear they may also be giving long-discredited racial prejudices a new potency. The notion that race is more than skin deep, they fear, could undermine principles of equal treatment and opportunity that have relied on the presumption that we are all fundamentally equal...We will all be walking a fine line between using biology and allowing it to be abused...

Just the existence of such genetic differences between races, proclaimed the author of the Half Sigma blog, a 40-year-old software developer, means "the egalitarian theory," that all races are equal, is proven false...many geneticists, wary of fueling discrimination and worried that speaking openly about race could endanger support for their research, are loath to discuss the social implications of their findings...There are clear differences between people of different continental ancestries, said Marcus W. Feldman, a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University. It's not there yet for things like I.Q., but I can see it coming. And it has the potential to spark a new era of racism if we do not start explaining it better."

But does that mean they again silence possible proof that undermines what is only a political agenda? If proven false, the entire left-wing race-baiting industry is undermined and with it billions of dollars. And we already have racism against whites as it is because black and Hispanic failure which at minimum is there own fault if culture, and just reality if genetic. Whites today are constantly penalized and attacked for non-existent crimes very few were even alive to commit. Black IQ is 85, Hispanic is about 90 as are American Indians north and south of the border. Thomas Sowell believes the IQ problem is culture and cites some valid examples. The problem that remains is IQ gap, which immigration isn't helping as Asians cause the same problems for both Hispanics and blacks that whites do. Are Asians going the be targeted as the next "racist" group?

• Thomas Sowell:
• Race, IQ, and facts liberals ignore
• Race dialogue: same old stuff: It's Culture, Not Racism
• Do 'minorities' really have it that bad?
• Black Liberation Theology and The Audacity of Rhetoric
• It isn't white racism:
• IQ Will Put You In Your Place
• Black/Hispanic failure in public schools is not racial bias
• The Question of IQ versus Race, and the leftist' agenda
• Morality Gap Mirrors Asian/white versus black/Hispanic IQ Gap
• Black college graduation rates under 50 percent
• The real problem in American public schools is liberal racism
• Scoping Out Pepe (and Mexicans): Why We Should Get It Right, But Won't
• Far-left lunacy:
• How Marxism became racism
• Why the term Islamic or Liberal fascism?
• ACLU sues Palm Beach over black graduation rates
• Where are you Reverend Sharpton?
• On Obama, race hustler
• The Man Who Would Be President - Or the Manchurian Candidate?
• Race card? Ask Obama... he brought it up...

Crime and education problems:
• Race behind school score declines: NCLB and Race
• Are facts racism? The Killers of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom Knoxville
• Liberal Racism and the so-called "Jena 6"
• Robbery survivor: 85-year-old fought through pain to stay alive
• Long Beach Hate Crime Travesty 40 blacks attack three white women, get probation.
• The Wichita Massacre
• The murder of nine-year-old Jordin Paulder

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