Race in Education

I have 102 students. Three are black, and the state of Tennessee, where I teach, is 17% black. And here’s a side-effect of Obama’s win that I was expecting and dreading: people saying that, since America has a black President, it no longer has race problems. Ta-daa! The Nebraska higher education system has banned consideration of race in admissions. And Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, in responses says, wait for it, now that we have a black Presidents it’s obvious that there’s no problem with racial inequality. There must be some other reason that our black fellow citizens tend to be poorer, have less health care and less education.