sorry for the misleading title
here is the original letter from McInnish- Hugh McInnish's Letter to the U.S. Department of Justice - Fullscreen
I find it both amusing and alarming that none of the information presented by McInnish is even considered, only insults and personal smears are presented. I suppose that is because the facts that he presents are... well, facts. Blacks arent keep out of advanced courses except by their own abilities and failure to sign up. Black school discipline rates do have the same trend as black adult criminal rates. why is common sense always considered racist when it involves blacks?
ThinkProgress » Alabama GOP Official Explains Racial Disparities In Schools: ‘Blacks Misbehave’Alabama GOP Official Explains Racial Disparities In Schools: Blacks Misbehave
The U.S. Department of Justices Civil Rights Division has been evaluating the Huntsville, AL school systems racial integration, and earlier this month released a report that wasnt promising. The DOJ listed several outstanding desegregation issues that the school district must address, including that predominantly black schools have too few advanced courses and that black children at predominantly white schools are punished and suspended at alarming rates.
But Hugh McInnish, a member of the Madison County Republican Executive Committee who also sits on the state Republican Executive Committee, set out to school the DOJ on the real reason racial disparities exist in Hunstville: Life is unfair. In a press conference at his gated community and a letter responding to the DOJ last week, McInnish offered a litany of bizarre proof that racial disparity isnt manmade, claiming blacks misbehave on average more frequently than whites do, and that black students are unable to perform as well as white students. To McInnish, the only manmade unfairness here is that the DOJ wants to correct a problem that is not of their making:
McInnish went so far as to include in his letter a chart that purports to show the black crime rate as (a) multiple of (the) white crime rate. The chart indicates that black people commit more than six times the violent crime of white people overall; it has them committing about eight times as many murders as white people and more than 14 times as many robberies.[...]
McInnish also argued Tuesday that the gap between white and black students participation in advanced courses is not because black students are not afforded the chance, as alleged in the Justice Department letter.
Instead, he said, the gap exists because black students are not able to perform as well in advanced classes.
here is the original letter from McInnish- Hugh McInnish's Letter to the U.S. Department of Justice - Fullscreen
I find it both amusing and alarming that none of the information presented by McInnish is even considered, only insults and personal smears are presented. I suppose that is because the facts that he presents are... well, facts. Blacks arent keep out of advanced courses except by their own abilities and failure to sign up. Black school discipline rates do have the same trend as black adult criminal rates. why is common sense always considered racist when it involves blacks?