Yes. None of these statements are equal: > Statement A: "Children of certain minorities perform more poorly at math." This is a (sad) fact. > Statement B: "

Yes. None of these statements are equal: > Statement A: "Children of certain minorities perform more poorly at math." This is a (sad) fact. > Statement B: "Math instruction is racist." Could be true. If true, we can agree it's undesirable. The Gates foundation is tossing some money around based on this idea. > Statement C: "Math is racist." This is absurd clickbait that nobody actually believes. The writer is intentionally confusing statement B and C because clickbait. That said, I'm sure there are people here that still don't buy statement B, so for the purposes of argument let's tweak it a bit: "Math instruction is sexist". There was a study of elementary school children that showed that girls taught by women perform more poorly in math than girls taught by men. With boys, the gender of the teacher didn't matter nearly as much. The researches speculated that women teachers might be projecting their own insecurities about math to the women in the class, essentially giving the girls permission to be bad at math just because they are girls. Putting aside the other wider socioeconomic factors, it's not hard to imagine a similar phenomenon happening among children of color, and if a billionaire wants to spend his money to try to find solutions to these problems, we should let him.