> I think Thomas Sowell said once something along the lines that the black schools in DC at about late 1800s-early 1900s was OUTPERFORMING those of the white schools in the region. If one is to look at the present day schooling in the same region, those children/teens are functionally illiterate.

There's a lot of quiet stereotyping going on where people assume that blacks have always underperformed whites in schooling, economic growth, etc.

In reality, this is a recent phenomenon. Well into the 50s/early 60s, black incomes were growing much faster than whites.