A Level Playing Field?

In the Los Angeles Unified School District which has mostly non-white students, 70% of the children qualify for the unappetizing breakfast and school lunch program, 65% are in foster care, many bathrooms of most schools are filthy and never cleaned up, paint is peeling from the walls of classrooms of most of the schools, and by every measure, the district schools are a sub-standard mess.

When public figures like Oprah say, "Black children in this country don't want to learn", the proper response is, who would want to or could learn, under these conditions? No other ethnic group is expected to learn under these third-world conditions of hunger and squalor, not Asians, not Whites, not anyone else but Black and immigrant Latino children.

So when these children are blamed for not wanting to learn in this benignly neglected environment, let it be known that those casting the blame, are guilty of ignoring and not denouncing, a most unlevel playing field that no one else's children are ever expected to play on or compete on.

Those guilty of this criminal neglect or those who ignore it, cannot offset this guilt by acts of charity in other countries or in other areas to compensate.