The politics of education not so black and white THE inherent difficulties of racial issues are made even worse by a growing prevalence of lies as a systematic and almost automatic response to realities many do not want to face. White college presidents routinely lie about racial double standards that exist, setting up high rates of failure among black college students who could be successful if they entered colleges where they met requirements. Whites are trying to avoid being considered racist, and blacks are trying to avoid being considered inferior.
Truth takes a back seat in both cases.
All sorts of groups in countries around the world have test scores as low as those of blacks During the First World War, while - soldiers from Georgia, Arkansas, Kentucky and Mississippi scored lower on mental tests than black soldiers from Ohio, Illinois New York and Pennsylvania. Other whites from culturally backward or isolated places have likewise had IQ scores in the 80s just as blacks have. These include mountain children in the United States, canal-boat children in England and children in the Hebrides islands off the coast of Scotland. I have visited schools where black students were taught academic basics in the king's English, with discipline and without the rhetoric and bombast they are likely to get elsewhere. Kids in those schools had test scores that met or exceeded national standards.