No, it's not the sort of racism that the News and Record, the Pulpit Forum, and certain members of the Guilford County Board of Education see around every corner, whether its there or not.
It's administrative and economic racism, the "bigotry of low expectations", as dramaticized by the current holder of the Office of President- Elect's plan for his daughters' education while in residence of our nation's capital.
Noteworthy:
"The public schools were segregated by race when I grew up in Washington. They're segregated just as rigidly today by economic class, as schools are in many cities, and the result is all but the same -- public schools for blacks, private schools for whites.
I once took my son out of a public school because his American history teacher was absent more days than she was on the job; in one conversation, she couldn't identify the fourth president of the United States without consulting her lesson plan, and was not embarrassed for it. She was protected, as incompetent teachers are protected today, by union-backed tenure."
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