Woke Racism by John McWhorter

Author:John McWhorter [McWhorter, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021-10-26T00:00:00+00:00

The Elect on school discipline: The bigotry against black boys.

Black boys get suspended and expelled from schools more than other kids. According to Elect ideology, this must be because they are discriminated against.

Specifically, we are told to think that the reason these boys get disciplined more than other kids is because teachers hold biases against them. The white kid acting up is a scamp; the black kid acting up is a thug. There are scholar-activists who have founded whole careers on bringing this wisdom to America’s educators and beyond. In 2014, a “Dear Colleague” letter went out from the U.S. Department of Education concurring that black boys are disciplined disproportionately because of racism. In 2019, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released a briefing report making the same case, titled “Beyond Suspensions: Examining School Discipline Policies and Connections to the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students of Color with Disabilities.”

Noble notions from noble entities. But the simple fact is this: Black boys do commit more violent offenses in public schools than other kids. Period. The Elect earnestly decry that most black kids go to school with only other black kids, because it fits into their agenda to point out “segregation.” But that “segregation” also entails that the black boys they think should be allowed to beat up other kids in school are handing out the beatings to other black kids. This means that if we follow these prophets’ advice and go easier on black boys, we hinder the education of other black students.

For example, The Philadelphia Inquirer fanned out across the city’s public schools in 2012 and found that there had been thirty thousand violent incidents in public schools between 2007 and then, which included robberies, rapes, and a pregnant teacher punched in the stomach. (She was one of four thousand teachers assaulted by students between 2005 and 2010.)

Out of the desire not to stereotype black kids, one might interpret those numbers in various ways designed to take the focus off of black boys. However, these interpretations just don’t work out.

For example, one might imagine that a lot of these assaults may have been committed by white kids. But the numbers don’t square with it: In Philadelphia’s public schools, more than two in three students (70 percent) are black or Latino.

Or one might imagine that, just maybe, those white kids who make up one-third of the students are committing a disproportionate amount of the assaults? But other studies reveal that black boys are responsible for a disproportionate amount of school violence. The National Center for Education Statistics found that in 2015, 12.6 percent of black kids surveyed nationwide had had a fight on school grounds, while only 5.6 percent of white kids had. It was not a fluke year: In 2013, the numbers were 12.8 percent vs. 6.4. In other words, black kids were more than twice as likely to engage in violence at school as white kids.

A Fordham Institute study showed the same thing in 2019. It surveyed twelve hundred black

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