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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you make the assertion that socioeconics trumps race, then show US the data. Not your anecdotes.[/quote]

Do you live in a white bubble? Do you not have black friends and neighbors who are living lives comparable to you in terms of work, schools, activities, church, etc? Do you think your white kid is smarter and will do better than your black Nextdoor neighbor? Do you not have black teachers at your school?

Maybe I’m a unicorn living in a UMC diverse bubble, but this is my reality. Some of the best teachers my kids and I ever had were black.

If you are living in a fancy zip code with only a tiny bit of diversity, then that’s your choice. If the only black people you know are low-income, then that’s an indictment on your real estate choices.

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So you don't have the data, got it. Well it is 5am and I cannot sleep so it is your lucky day. This study by McKinsey shows black 10th graders in 2002 with family incomes above $75k scored only slightly better than white 10th graders with family incomes below $25k and worse than white 10th graders with family incomes between $25k and $50k. I believe these data have been replicated in more recent studies (but it's 5am and my desire to argue with people determined to.be ignorant on an anonymous forum only goes so far), in any case I am not sure what has changed in the past 20 years that would demonstrably change this.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://dropoutprevention.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ACHIEVEMENT_GAP_REPORT_20090512.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjKlb36gL3zAhXbmnIEHUqwDYEQFnoECA8QAQ&usg=AOvVaw03_1uMch7ZFttUUEWuGlNp see p. 13[/quote]

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