The Racism Treadmill

Excellently written and conceived piece. So many good points, I implore everyone reading this comment to actually read the article if they haven't already.

Many people critical of modern progressivism's take on racial disparities are not critical because of some racism of their own, but rather because they want to see disproportionately impoverished minorities achieve success and view progressive racial rhetoric as counterproductive to this end, regardless of how well intentioned the rhetoric may be.

It’s a very well written article and talks about an aspect of racial disparities that isn’t talked about much in the public sphere: culture. At some point negative aspects of poverty culture in general and black poverty culture specifically needs to addressed and talked about. The impediments caused by negative cultural aspects are real. With regard to education, the only real way to improve schools is to improve the culture toward learning.

The article seems like veiled scientific racism to me, and some of the author's points along with the people arguing about IQs in the comments seem to lend some credence to that idea. I don't doubt that culture plays some role in it all, but the author seems to skirt around the idea that Black Americans may have this very distinct culture as a result of being at the bottom of society for so long.