One non-solution I can think of would be to segregate children from their tribes and force them to live by and for themselves. But that would be cruel and evil, so I won’t propose it.

Also, high-sounding government attempts to “close the gaps” are failing precisely because such attempts are from outside. The “unsuccessful” tribes such as blacks and hispanics resent such intrusions even if for their own good. I think it would be better just to leave them alone, and let them – or rather their most forward-thinking individuals – see the light on their own. After all, the more successful tribes have done that – whites, Asians, Jews and other non-Muslim middle easterners.

Moreover, if I understand you correctly, you are saying lets just ignore the problem. We know there is a great hue and cry that minorities are not proportionally represented at higher levels of education and in the job market. It seems to me that the root cause of this disparity is our primary, secondary and h.s. education system. I can tell you the performance levels of various ethnic groups in all of suburban Cook County(that’s suburban Chicago) high schools, mirrors that of the stats I posted above. All of this leads to under representation on down the road.

The hard part is comming up with solutions. In today’s political climate and super-sensitivity to racial matters, it is like walking on egg shells. The easy solution, just throw more money at the schools certainly hasn’t narrowed the gap. If and until we are totally honest about the problem, it will on fester and more than likely get worse.

But identifying a problem is not stereotyping.

Just returned from a school board meeting so I am not making to much sense and will let this go for now. This is redundant but I will say it again, ignoring the problem will not make it go away.

Who says stereotyping is bad?

Stereotyping is at the heart of the “diversity” philosophy. “Diversity” presumes fundamental but beneficient differences between racial groups. Every single member of a given racial group is presumed to possess that fundamental difference. There are no follow-up questions of a black applicant to assure that they “think black” as well. No need to worry that a woman doesn’t “think like a woman”.

The presumption is that Kanye West and Justice Clarence Thomas think one way, and rapper Eminmem and Rush Limbaugh think a different way. While there have been accusations that Clarence Thomas “isn’t black enough”, I can’t recall any charges that Eminmem “isn’t white enough”.

In summary, it is not impermissable to stereotype if it is being done by the left.

Without this ethnic/racial parsing, the problem would never have become public knowledge.

“Close that gap!”

“Close that gap!”

Isn’t the proper moral indictment best leveled against those who confuse educational equality with equal group results? One can’t seriously “close the gap” without exercising some form of disparate treatment or beneficient segregation.

If this is the cure, I’ll take the disease!

Reader Nels Nelson points me to something to a remarkable post from Joanne Jacobs that I should have seen by now on my own (but hadn’t), a California high school that segregated its students for separate, color-coded pre-testing pep talks…….