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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We all know that it's very, very much harder for first generation college students to finish college.  UVA didn't desegregate fully until the 1960.  Likewise for UNC.  At UNC, parties with Klan costumes and blackface were not unknown in the 1980 (just check out the yearbook from those years if you doubt it).

We all know that most middle class people have traditionally accumulated family wealth through their home.  Restrictive covenants and other kinds of housing discrimination prevented black families from owning homes that would appreciate until the 70s, and housing discrimination continues in 2019.

Where are the black landowners who were kicked off the land where Ft Reno is now in the early 1900s?

When were DC schools desegregated, and how did the white community respond?

These are the roots of "inadequate prior experience."    [/quote]

The roots of the inadequate prior experience are far more complex than that.  Middle-class AA families are relatively new to the middle class- there were very few of them just two generations ago.  Unfortunately, typical upwardly mobile UMC behaviors, like reading for pleasure and turning the TV off so kids can read, aren't seen as much with AA families as whites and Asians, not yet.  The black-white achievement gap can't simply be explained by housing discrimination and white wealth.  Poor whites do a little better overall in higher education than equally poor blacks, and Asians do much better.[/quote]

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