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A professor at the University of Texas is ruffling feathers by claiming that black and Hispanic students are failing academically due to being raised by women in single parent homes.

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This isn’t Lino Graglia’s first time walking the thin line that connects race with education. In 1997, he told a conservative student group that black and Mexican-American cultures “set children up for failure.”

While the latter is clearly an ignorant, bigoted generalization about black and Hispanic cultures, Graglia supported his most recent sweeping generalization with facts about black and Hispanic literacy in this country that cannot be ignored.

He said the average black performance on SAT test is 200 points lower than that for the average white student and that among the black population almost three quarters of children are now born outside of marriage.

Graglia told BBC that he is basing his conclusion on:

“How well do these kids do in maths and reading is basically it and they do less well.”

While the truth is that literacy rates in both communities lack in comparison to others, it was Graglia’s reasoning for why they lack that started the firestorm he’s facing:

Law professor Lino Graglia was talking to the BBC when he said he could ‘hardly imagine a less beneficial or more deleterious experience than to be raised by a single parent, usually female, uneducated and without a lot of money.’

‘And race or segregation or history wouldn’t matter one bit if that was not the case. 

‘No doubt the race and segregation may have a lot to do why that’s the case, but it is the case and what to do about it now?

‘And admitting them into selective schools with large gaps in qualification is not the answer.’

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No doubt a two-parent home is more beneficial for a child, no matter their race. However, it is certainly not the most deleterious experience to have a single parent without a college education. There are other factors that are included in the education gap, mainly socio-economic issues, which are colorblind.

Graglia may want to revisit his theory to see how many successful and educated black and Hispanic…and even white students in single-parent homes (with little money) are successful. 

Unless, of course, he was trying to separate blacks and Hispanics from whites by highlighting obscure statistics. Which seems to be his modus operandi. 

SOURCE: Daily Mail