[hashmymustache]

I don't disagree with you, but I'm curious how you explain the test performance disparity across races. If you look at the top public high school, TJ, blacks/hispanics compose 4% of the class at 25% of the population while asians make up 60% of the class at 5% of the population. Is it because asians are that much more naturally gifted?

I realize with regard to affirmative action that race is a poor proxy for socioeconomic status, but it is statistically practical with regard to cultural values. You mentioned "I went to an Ivy League school, I fit the Asian model minority stereotype pretty well." How much did your parents influence your priorities in weighing education?

One of the issues seems to be that colleges are attempting to address institutionalized racism too late in students' lives.

[newnewnew]

If a child grows us with a crummy culture with regards to education, has he experienced "institutionalized racism"?

I feel like the english language is being rapidly perverted.

[hashmymustache]

Well black kids were first let into white schools in 1960. That's 50 years ago. You don't think that exclusion shaped cultural views toward education?

[bromang]

" Is it because asians are that much more naturally gifted?"

Why not?