Credible research has shown that voluntary minority children have a different attitude toward school than that of involuntary minorities. It is fallacious to assume that Asian-American K-12 students react to school the same way that African-American students do simply because both groups are in a statistical minority. This is not a racial issue. Students whose parents emigrated voluntarily from Africa do not necessarily have the same attitude toward school, including their place in the education system, as do students whose ancestors were brought to America on slave ships. In the U. S. educational system, there is an endemic, systemic racism against African Americans and it has been in place continuously since the first slaves appeared here.

A side note: the strictest definition of racism is “a belief that one race is superior to another.” The author of this article nowhere shows a belief that white people are inferior (or superior) to black or brown people. She simply observes that certain mediocre white people refuse to acknowledge their own mediocrity and blame any resulting consequence of that mediocrity on a system rigged against white people. That is is an accurate description of many mediocre white people that I know. It is not racism; it is realism.