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That Old White Privilege
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There are certain leftist ideas that, if one is to believe in them, it is necessary to live at a certain removal from reality, that rather pesky thing which never ceases to shatter comforting delusions. We are often told, for example, that there is something called “white privilege,” thanks to which white people enjoy a general privilege (or advantage) over other groups, just because they’re white. All year round, here in Philly and when I’m traveling in other parts of the country, I see white men working outdoors, doing those hard, dirty jobs that many of us don’t want to do, sometimes in very hot or very cold weather. It’s easy, of course, to describe construction workers, and the men who get up in the middle of the night to repair downed power lines or broken pipes underground, as “privileged,” but to do this is only to betray one’s utter ignorance of how such men actually live. The truth is that the leftist intellectual who is forever chattering about “white privilege” typically knows nothing about the many white people, women as well as men, who do thankless jobs that most of us take for granted. For most leftist intellectuals come from middle- or upper-class backgrounds; for them, the ordinary working-class or blue-collar white person exists only as a convenient abstraction, easily made into an occasion for cant about “white privilege.”
As with “white privilege,” so with the belief, common among leftist intellectuals, that racial differences in academic performance are mainly caused by poverty or income inequality. Here, too, in order to maintain a belief that one wants to be true, it’s necessary to be ignorant of the profound differences in behavior among racial groups, or anyway, to pretend that these differences don’t produce differences in academic performance. It may also be necessary to ignore well-established racial differences in intelligence, or to hold that these too are somehow due to income inequality, an explanation that, to be sure, can also be applied to differences in behavior among racial groups. (In general, if something is bad, expect leftists to consider it an effect of poverty.) Since, according to leftists, academic performance is essentially an effect of class, the way to solve racial disparities in the classroom and on standardized tests is to send poor students to more affluent schools. But though leftists in general seem only too happy to insulate themselves from others in order to entertain this and other follies, they are now finding that there may be a price to pay: sending their own children to poorer and less successful schools so as to give the “disadvantaged” a greater chance at achieving academic success. Dana Goldstein, writing in The New York Times, reports:
Quote:The planned community of Columbia, southwest of Baltimore, has prided itself on its ethos of inclusion ever since it was founded more than half a century ago. Racially integrated. Affordable apartments near big homes. “The Next America” was its optimistic, harmonious motto.
But a recent proposal to restore some of that idealism by balancing the number of low-income children enrolled in schools across Howard County, including those in Columbia, has led to bitter divisions….
“In general, if something is bad, expect leftists to consider it an effect of poverty.”
The plan, announced by Dr. Martirano in August, would transfer 7,400 of the district’s 58,000 students to different schools in an effort to chip away at an uncomfortable truth: Some of the county’s campuses have become havens for rich students, while others serve large numbers of children whose families are struggling.
Dr. Martirano’s plan, which he called Equity in Action, would also alter the racial makeup of some schools, given that the majority of poor students in the county are black or Hispanic….
Howard County is one of many school districts, from Dallas to New York City to San Francisco, now grappling with the challenges of integration. The virulent opposition in an area that its founder once declared to be “color blind” shows that the issue remains deeply divisive among liberals when it comes to their own children.
That there is a racial dynamic to the struggle in Columbia is undeniable. It is mostly white and Asian parents who are protesting the plan. Black and Hispanic children are more likely to be concentrated in schools with large numbers of poor students.
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― Voltaire
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