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Letters Legacy of Racism?

Pat Shipman’s “Legacy of Racism” [Dec. 5] suggests that “the prejudicial treatment of blacks in America during the last two hundred years have [sic] been so crippling as to produce a downshift of the mean IQ by some 15 points.” While there was de jure racism in the South, and de facto elsewhere, what was actually happening in mostly black schools staffed by mostly black teachers prior to Brown v. Board of Education and the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Newt Gingrich and Brett Schundler have publicized unambiguous evidence that per-pupil expenditures are often inversely proportional to desired results. How successful were the teachers of 1865 through 1964? After thirty years and trillions of dollars of assistance, are black students better or worse off? Empirically, this country’s social engineers were successful in getting huge amounts of money, and some integration, but catastrophically lost everything else. Reading, writing, and computation skills have sharply deteriorated, school and neighborhood safety is often non-existent, the black family structure has statistically been shattered, and while Jesse Jackson equates birth control with racial genocide, teen pregnancies terminate any hope of a bright future for both the mother and the baby.

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Letters Legacy of Racism?

Pat Shipman’s “Legacy of Racism” [Dec. 5] suggests that “the prejudicial treatment of blacks in America during the last two hundred years have [sic] been so crippling as to produce a downshift of the mean IQ by some 15 points.” While there was de jure racism in the South, and de facto elsewhere, what was actually happening in mostly black schools staffed by mostly black teachers prior to Brown v. Board of Education and the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Newt Gingrich and Brett Schundler have publicized unambiguous evidence that per-pupil expenditures are often inversely proportional to desired results. How successful were the teachers of 1865 through 1964? After thirty years and trillions of dollars of assistance, are black students better or worse off? Empirically, this country’s social engineers were successful in getting huge amounts of money, and some integration, but catastrophically lost everything else. Reading, writing, and computation skills have sharply deteriorated, school and neighborhood safety is often non-existent, the black family structure has statistically been shattered, and while Jesse Jackson equates birth control with racial genocide, teen pregnancies terminate any hope of a bright future for both the mother and the baby.