Are we more harmed by black paint on a white face, or the fact that black rates of high school dropouts is double that of whites and college completion for LatinX and black students lags far behind whites?
You will ask why must you choose? Both are bad. These simple binaries aren’t instructive in any way.
“I can do both,” you’ll say, meaning you can be outraged by examples of racism and address the miseducation of black children.
I call your bluff. Yes, you can do both, but you don’t. Searching your social media reads like a clanging gong of outrage-by-the-minute stories that are here today, gone tomorrow. Your intellectual consumption is mostly empty calories.
As much as people say they call out both incidents of petty racism and America’s education tragedy, they don’t.
I understand why they publicly and privately challenge me for grinding on this unreasonable point about prioritizing the education failure that I see as smothering our children over the sheep rush toward each angering news item of the day. I understand, but I won’t relent. The easiest way to disable an intelligent person is to confuse his ability to differentiate between things that matter and those things that seem to matter but don’t.
Where is your social media post about the objectionable statewide test scores of public schools across every state?
Surely the fact that more black children are on track for economic alienation than self-sufficiency warrants as much fury as the kid with the #MAGA hat staring like a soulless psychopath at the Native American elder.
Where is your Facebook post about the 4.5 million children Congress discovered were sexually abused by staff in public schools?