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"The 6-year national college graduation rate is 59% for White students, 51% for Hispanic students, 46% for Black females, and 35% for Black males."[1] 1: https
by berbec 9y ago
"The 6-year national college graduation rate is 59% for White students, 51% for Hispanic students, 46% for Black females, and 35% for Black males."[1]
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_achievement_gap_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_achievement_gap_in_the_...
- GhostVII 9y agoThere are racial differences with pretty much everything in the US. Are benefits for poor people racist because they disproportionally help black people? Is having a required entrance average for universities racist because black people have statistically lower grades/graduation rates? Sure, if you are choosing to filter applicants based on criteria where the only effect of the filtering is changing the racial distribution, it may be racist, but that certainly isn't the case when you are filtering based on whether or not a person has a degree.
- EADGBE 9y agoI wonder what those numbers look like without race and with income brackets.
- berbec 9y agoI agree, but there is potentially a larger point when part of the cause is unequal access to education based on race.
- karmajunkie 9y agoI hate to burst your bubble, but yes, those are all evidence of systemic racism.
- johnnyanmac 9y agoI agree to some extent as to how education is a barrier some minorites can't pierce, but those statistics seem pretty reasonable. roughly half of all students (though there seems to be a slightly lower-than-average retention in black males) in general drop out fro various reasons. Maybe the breakdown of reasons reveal some racism, but that isn't something you see at face value. I think the larger problem causing the social divide is getting in to begin with, as opposed to retention.