Walter E. Williams
‘In my “Black Education Disaster” column (12/22/10), I presented National Assessment of Educational Progress test data that demonstrated that an average black high school graduate had a level of reading, writing and math proficiency of a white seventh- or eighth-grader. The public education establishment bears part of the responsibility for this disaster, but a greater portion is borne by black students and their parents, many of whom who are alien and hostile to the education process.
Let’s look at the education environment in many schools and ask how conducive it is to the education process. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nationally during 2007-2008, more than 145,000 teachers were physically attacked. Six percent of big-city schools report verbal abuse of teachers and 18 percent report non-verbal disrespect for teachers.
An earlier NCES study found that 18 percent of the nation’s schools accounted for 75 percent of the reported incidents of violence, and 6.6 percent accounted for 50 percent. So far as serious violence, murder and rapes, 1.9 percent of schools reported 50 percent of the incidents. The preponderance of school violence occurs in big-city schools attended by black students…’
Which illustrates what Wabbit has been saying for years, when responding to ignoramus anti-American leftoids who bang on about the “high levels” of crime in the U.S.: Subtract black crime from the figures and Americans are an astonishingly law-abiding people. Leftoids–of course–love to try and make that argument unusable by screaming “racist!”. Doesn’t work around here.
The Woodpile Report has a wonderful post up, titled ‘White Privilege’ and an excerpt wouldn’t do it justice–go take a gander.
