<p>Calico,</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter how whites perform unless we’re performing at least at their average level. We shouldn’t be worried about them beyond this fact as they’re the leaders of this fine country. They are the lawyers, doctors, presidents and scientists. Our communal problems will fix themselves as long if only we can replace our lighter-skinned brethern with just as much quality. Our collective focus should be entirely on educating our children to compete with whites (as as group), and then in time, Asians as well. Black people in America need to be ashamed of our low scholastic level right now. </p>
<p>Our failure is intermingled with the inhumane nature of our subserviant history, but we can break out of the failure mode.</p>
<p>That, however, can’t happen on a national scale without our government. On the other hand, individuals such as yourself can make difference. Many of our problems–including the likes of high crime and incarceration–would fix themselves if it only we realized the importance of early childhood education.</p>
<p>As one sociologist mused in a recent New York Times article, “African Americans are stuck in a cyclical culture of poverty”.</p>
<p>Whites–NEWS FLASH OF THE CENTURY–are largely not.</p>