Comment by btilly

I agree with your point.

My point was a "don't shoot the messenger".

A politically powerful minority calls ability tests racist because they make minorities look bad. An opposing offensive minority uses those same ability tests as evidence that minorities are simply inferior. Courts ruled that those using the tests should be presumed racist because the results show racial differences.

The result of all of this is a policy, meant to help minorities, that fails them. At great expense to all of us.

And an actual easy to identify factor which sustains racial differences - poor educational policies - is politically off limits to think about. "Because that would cost money."

The resulting mess is in alternating turns absurd and sad.