A good many insurance policies, business and homeowners alike, exclude losses from Civil Disorders, and have a "Force Majeure" clause. If the Lefties think they can loot and burn with impunity, and have the insurance premiums or working Americans pick up the tab, that ain't gonna happen.
There have to be some universal measurements of knowledge and inate abilities. Especially since the sixties, the minority communities - Blacks especially - have become more insular, and "Circled the wagons", making it harder for younger Black people to assimilate in to the larger society.
As fat as the NYC situation, and the movement to abolish the SHSAT, forty years ago, there were far more students of color in the NYC Exam Schools than there are today. Why? Because forty years ago, NYC middle schools offered Advanced Placement Courses and tracking, which are vital for admission to the exam schools. And yes - forty years ago there was a movement to abolish tracking as "Unfair" and "racist", so that's what was done. And that in a nutshell is why there are so few Black and Latino students in the exam schools today. I might add that with all the howling about SHSAT being unfair, the opponents of SHSAT ignore the fact that the Asians and Bangladeshis - most of whom come from poor Blue collar families - are also students of color - but the wrong colors, as far as the SHSAT opponents are concerned.
I am an American of mixed race. Blue collar immigrant parents. I was a "mess up" in HS, flunked out of the State U in short order, worked in factories, Army, went back to the State U, degree at thirty six. Started law school at Fifty. Without the score I got on the LSAT, there is no way in hell that I would be a lawyer today. This is the truth.
This is because of Fifty of Black popular culture brainwashing black youth into thinking "School don't do nothing for you", "All you study in school is dead White Crackers", "School is for Whitey", and on and on. In 1960, young black people did not have attitudes like this. ("One who was there")
WOW....Yes - barber shops are focal social points for Black men. Believe this.