[seekingtruth]

>If some minorities (and let's not dance around the issue; we mean black people) are underrepresented at these institutions, that is a wake up call. It means that the public school system in our country has, in aggregate, failed black children and that decades of racial injustice have forced black people into self-perpetuating cycles of generational poverty.

This is only true if it is reasonable to expect similar performance and outcomes between different population groups. Is it? Why should we expect blacks to perform as well academically as Ashkenazim and east asians, two population groups with notably high average IQ?

[philwelch]

I would say the disparity in IQ scores is another symptom of the same problem rather than a fundamental cause. I don't think black people are fundamentally stupider than Chinese people, for instance.