>>>Another solution might be to recognize racism for what it is and understand its costs to society.
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>And then what?
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>>>I was a caddymaster while working my way through college...They were some of our best caddies- men in their forties and fifties with families. They were products of Jim Crow school districts in >>the South who had moved north...These men and their children were at a huge disadvantage.
>>>That they were forced to take literacy tests in order to vote speaks loudly as to why their schools were systematically kept so bad.
>>>To expect children of Illiterate parents to perform anywhere near the level of children of well educated people is absurd>>t would take several generations to undo >>the effects of that racist behaviour - if it is ever really overcome.
>>>That is a huge cost.
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>That's terrible, but is that why Black and Latino kids don't score highly on NY high school tests in 2020? How about Vietnamese refugees who arrived with nothing unable to speak English, but whose US-born kids often top the standardized tests in 2020 and would dominate Havrard placings if they didn't change the rules- which now is cause for law suits alleging racism.
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>I guess I'm saying it's time to fix the problem not the blame.

That can't happen till people agree on the blame.