The Logical Solution to the Civil Union vs. Marriage Debate 1

Liberals love to blame poor Black and Hispanic performance in American
public schools on the lack of school quality, e.g. lack of updated
textbooks, no laptops for kids, etc. This has been the standard liberal
narrative for decades (I’m an SF liberal myself, btw). But does this
assessment match the data? Does it match what students and teachers see
every day in American schools? Does it match what we see in society?

No. If either of the following statements were true, Asian and Indian kids
would be performing poorly in American public schools as well:

American public schooling is simply poor altogether, and it’s impossible
to do well
American public school is biased against non-whites, which is why blacks
and hispanics do so poorly

But Asian and Indian kids are academically dominating. These students aren’t just outperforming Blacks and Hispanics in the same
exact schools, they’re also outperforming White students. Why is that? How
are Asians and Indians doing so well in an academic environment that’s
supposedly hard to thrive in?

The answer is culture. Some cultures are conducive to academic performance,
and others are not. Quite simply, the problem isn’t poor schools, the
problem is poor parenting.

One fallback defense against this is often that of socio-economic status,
e.g. “Well, this is simply because these high-performing Asians come from
rich families, and the Hispanic kids are poor…” But this doesn’t stand up
under scrutiny. Here’s a clip from
an article in the L.A. Times
on this very subject, titled “Trying to Bridge the Grade Divide”.

I find it highly ironic that liberals claim to be the ones interested in
protecting minorities, yet they are the ones championing this horribly
destructive narrative of “bias against non-whites” in the academic
environment. Most Indians are pretty dark, and yet they graduate high
school, attain bachelors degrees, and graduate degrees at higher rates than
Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites.

And no, it’s not time to start looking for a pro-Asian or pro-Indian bias.
We need to stop looking for ways to avoid unpleasant truths. Some cultures
excel at raising children who succeed, and some cultures do not. The longer
we choose to avert our eyes from this painful fact, the more harm we do in
the name of equality. This simply has to stop. ::