All of the research from Thomas Sowell's "Ethnic America" backs up exactly what the teacher is saying. His assertion (meticulously documented) was that it is the minority culture of victim hood which is hurting Black people in America, and not racism. And that those minority groups who hold values like education and hard work as their core values (like the Japanese minority in California for example) continually out perform those that do not.
those minority groups who hold values like education and hard work as their core values (like the Japanese minority in California for example) continually out perform those that do not.
Just like it works for white people (mirabile dictu!).