Everyone is entitled to their
opinion but sometimes it is best to keep your mouth shut, especially if your
comments will have you labeled as a racist. A University of Texas professor put
his foot in his mouth after making an analysis of the Black and Hispanic
communities. Many have found the professor’s comments to be quite
offensive and are going after his job. The professor claims that Black and
Hispanic youth are failing to succeed academically because they are raised in
single family homes that are ran by women.
Lino Graglia is the law
professor at the University of Texas that let his theory out to the BBC during
a recent interview. Graglia described the rearing environment of Black and
Hispanic youth from single parent homes as ‘deleterious’, claiming that these
children are typically raised by poor and uneducated single mothers. Graglia
went on to say that the average Black student performed 200 points worse on the
SAT than the average white student. He then said that three quarters of black
children are born out of wedlock, further leading to their demise. Who
isn’t he trying to offend here?
Awkwardly for Graglia, the
reporter that he was speaking to was Black and raised by a single mother.
Disregarding the reporter, Graglia continued, ’How well do these kids do
in maths and reading is basically it and they do less well. And race or
segregation or history wouldn’t matter one bit if that was not the
case. No doubt the race and segregation may have a lot to do why that’s
the case, but it is the case and what to do about it now? And admitting
them into selective schools with large gaps in qualification is not the
answer.’
What the professor failed to
mention is that part of the reason that so many black children are in single
parent homes is because their fathers are in prison due to the War on Drugs,
which has been described by President Obama and other Democrats as a set of
failed policies. So, as the professor seeks to blame black parents for
their children not having fathers in the home, he isn’t interested in
understanding the role that the state of Texas has played in destroying the
very families that he is criticizing. You can’t shoot someone in the leg
and then make fun of them because they are no longer able to run. This
could be the essence of racial hypocrisy.
[As for] my people,
children [are] their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they
which lead thee cause [thee] to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
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The tender and
delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her
foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil
toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
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A shameless woman shall be counted as a dog but she that is shamefaced
will fear the Lord
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