So, whites stand accused of "mediocrity." We should plead guilty as charged.
Mediocre means "ordinary" or "so-so." Almost by definition, whites are ordinary/so-so, and in fact, we are.
The problems is that in two key respects -- education and family -- blacks aren't mediocre. As a group, they are subpar.
White achievement in these areas isn't great. It's so-so at best. But blacks as a group don't perform nearly as well as whites and Asians in school or on standardized tests. Nor are they providing their kids with stable, two-parent families to anything like the degree that whites, never mind Asians, are.
They should aspire to the kind of mediocrity whites have achieved in these areas as a first step, and then aspire to surpass that standard. Blaming "white privilege" for falling short won't help.
Perhaps I should add what I think is clear from the pictures -- that virtually everyone killed that day was a white male, with a high likelihood that, in civilian life, they were all "mediocre." Perhaps I should also add that the heavy majority of those in the first landing craft did not make it to sunset.
So, whites stand accused of "mediocrity." We should plead guilty as charged.
Mediocre means "ordinary" or "so-so." Almost by definition, whites are ordinary/so-so, and in fact, we are.
The problems is that in two key respects -- education and family -- blacks aren't mediocre. As a group, they are subpar.
White achievement in these areas isn't great. It's so-so at best. But blacks as a group don't perform nearly as well as whites and Asians in school or on standardized tests. Nor are they providing their kids with stable, two-parent families to anything like the degree that whites, never mind Asians, are.
They should aspire to the kind of mediocrity whites have achieved in these areas as a first step, and then aspire to surpass that standard. Blaming "white privilege" for falling short won't help.
Perhaps I should add what I think is clear from the pictures -- that virtually everyone killed that day was a white male, with a high likelihood that, in civilian life, they were all "mediocre." Perhaps I should also add that the heavy majority of those in the first landing craft did not make it to sunset.