{"id":5090,"date":"2003-12-09T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-09T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2021-06-13T17:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T17:29:03","slug":"closing-the-race-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/09\/closing-the-race-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing The Race Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/archives\/read.php?ref=wsj:2003:12:07:290886:FORUM\">Closing The Race Gap<\/a><br \/>\nProblem: Teens Shun Academic Achievement<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin State Journal :: FORUM :: B1<br \/>\nSunday, December 7, 2003<br \/>\nBy Russell King<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Dad, if I show them how smart I am, they say I&#8217;m trying to be white.&#8221;<br \/>\nThose were the words of my teen-age son trying to explain why he was failing every class, despite having an IQ well above average.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll note that he did not say he was being cheated, discouraged or oppressed by white teachers or white administrators. You&#8217;ll note that he did not say the system was stacked against him or that the system gave unfair advantages to white students. The &#8220;them&#8221; and &#8220;they&#8221; referred to his black male peers. My black son is failing because his peers will deny him both his identity and their friendship if he dares to succeed. We&#8217;re hearing a lot these days about the poor performance of black children in our schools and how racism, insensitivity and ignorance among white teachers and staff are to blame. I&#8217;m not saying these faults don&#8217;t exist, but as the father of two black and four white children, I am saying there is something more, something we don&#8217;t talk about because we don&#8217;t dare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closing The Race Gap Problem: Teens Shun Academic Achievement Wisconsin State Journal :: FORUM :: B1 Sunday, December 7, 2003 By Russell King &#8220;Dad, if I show them how smart I am, they say&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[127,213],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-affirmative-action-and-diversity","tag-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1k6","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7255,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions\/7255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}