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(06-27-2018, 03:02 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: So here comes me with some fun knowledge on this situation. The poorer a school district is, the more equal they are. So in a rural setting, black kids and white kids often perform similarly. This is because these rural areas are often more egalitarian. This means that comparing them to more urban, well funded school districts is difficult. Performance in schools is based primarily on funding, of this there is little doubt. The issue is that because many urban areas are currently more racially segregated than they were pre-Brown, and because the wage and wealth gaps between black people and white people is still tremendously large, it means that the the allocation of resources is favoring predominantly white students.

I get what you were saying with your post, or trying to get at, that it is based on money. It is. But the wealth differences are also able to be looked at through the existence of institutional/systemic racism over the years. This isn't to say that poor white people aren't caught up in this. I've made it clear in some of my posts that past efforts to discriminate black people have caught poor white people up in the same trap because the wealthy people making these efforts didn't care about the poor people. It's the same story over and over again.

Appreciate this post, Matt. But, my take is that most "institutionalized racism" is really wealth disparity dressed up as racism. I acknowledge that historical racism has had a significant effect on said wealth disparity, but I do not believe there is such a thing as "institutionalized racism" except maybe in certain specific institutions (like the criminal justice system, for example).