I Wonder Why That Could Be?

 I came across the following article from The Conversation: "White teachers often talk about Black students in racially coded ways." The authors actually have two main gripes.

    First, after discussing how a Texas middle-school teacher was fired for trying to explain to a class why all people are ethnocentric (something the authors describe as "blatantly racist") they marveled that they "discovered while performing a study at a predominantly Black school with mostly white teachers, many of them – whether consciously or unconsciously – often harbor negative racial views and stereotypes about Black students and their families. The key difference is they verbalize those negative views in less obvious ways than the Texas teacher." Yes. Why would they be careful about verbalizing those views? It is a mystery.

    Second, they "found that while Black students made up 89% of the student body [at a particular school they were studying], they represented 97% of all disciplinary infractions. Conversely, while white students made up 8% of the student population, they received only 1% of the disciplinary referrals. This early quantitative finding confirms studies from across the nation that showed that, even when controlling for rates of misbehavior and poverty, Black students are still disproportionately disciplined compared to their white peers." 

    In totally unrelated news, "Teens accused of LAUGHING while viciously stomping, kicking and punching father-of-three outside Kroger store until armed witness intervened are charged with murder after victim died in hospital"--Daily Mail. The victim was white. The teen murderers were black.