If other students are able to do much better than you on the same tests, they have an advantage. They've either acquired information that you haven't acquired, or they've learned reasoning or test-taking skills that you haven't got. Until you close that gap, you will always be at a disadvantage. My colleague at Time magazine, Jack White, says the University of California should keep requiring SAT scores for admission until black applicants score as high as whites and Asians. Then it can let them go.
Blacks complain that whites think blacks are intellectually inferior.
They do think that. But the biggest obstacle to black achievement today is that blacks believe it, too. The reasons for this are numerous and not all of our own making. But it's time to get over it. Even Asian boat people have been able to come here and score higher than blacks on the SATs.