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by sheepmullet 2947 days ago
> Black children are born disproportionately to uneducated parents due to generations of denying blacks education

Not long ago the average white American had only a basic formal education.

My father left school when he was 12 and over half his class left at that age.

My grandfather left school when he was 10.

If that was a key reason then we would only have to have waited a generation.

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You had the advantage of good schooling in a decent (though not great) environment, just as the Koreans and Shanghai kids did or are an outlier. You take one advantage and claim that's the only one. Blacks have for generations lived in an environment where they did not have access to jobs that require an education, even if they were able to obtain one by sheer force of will, leaving entire communities without a drive for attainment.