You should check out John McWhorter, who has a very different take on what it is to grow up Black these days. I have no idea whether you're Black, or how old you are. But the characterization you give is out of step with what a lot of people perceive. Folks like John find these sort of descriptions borderline offensive. Also demoralizing to Black kids, who shouldn't be told that the world is more awful than it actually is.

If what you are saying were true we should be seeing Asians spending the least time studying and Black students studying hard. But your hypothesis is not only untrue, it's the opposite of what we actually observe.

What we do see are the systemic effects of an entire society normalizing a whole host of racist behaviors, including trying to play the struggle Olympics by comparing one racial group (who have a whole different set of issues) to another.

Your who premise that Black students are not rewarded for academic success - which other commenters asked you to substantiate and you refused [1] - is untrue, and you've resorted to accusations of racism instead of trying to argue your point.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34673623

That literally does not make sense logically.

And I didn't refuse to do shit, I literally gave a dozen sources that all support my claim that black people have a whole host of things working against them when it comes to performing well academically. I disagreed that I haven't "proven" what I claimed when I very clearly and undeniably did exactly that.

See this list for a very small start into understanding why the same amount of "hard work" won't help a black person succeed academically in America.

He'll just keep referring you to these links and call you racist if you point out that other ethnic groups have succeeded.

I learned algebra from my grandfather, who was still alive because he didn't die of heart disease.

> He'll just keep referring you to these links and call you racist if you point out that other ethnic groups have succeeded.

Because it's covered extensively in those links why talking about the outcomes of the select few black people who make it to the top tiers of academia is not a relevant or meaningful way of approaching the problem. I can lead you to water, but I can't make you drink it.

But overall, what a shitty, disingenuous comment that reveals your terrible faith engagement on this topic. I didn't once call anyone here a racist person.

Honestly, thank you for posting this and revealing to the other folks here that you have no interest in abiding by the HN guidelines. At this point there's not really much more to do than flag your comments and stop engaging with your toxicity.

Your links don't actually substantiate the claim that you're making. That's why people keep asking you to substantiate the claims that you're making about lower reward for the same level of academic success, and why your continuous referral back to these links is pointless. And now you're resorting to flagging comments because you can't refute them.

If my comments are so toxic, the correct course of action as per the HN guidelines is to not respond - which you have evidently not done.

> I didn't once call anyone here a racist person.

Yes, you did, here [1]

> What we do see are the systemic effects of an entire society normalizing a whole host of racist behaviors, including trying to play the struggle Olympics by comparing one racial group (who have a whole different set of issues) to another.

You wrote this in response to my comparison of Asian and Black admission rates, in response to your claim that Black people are not rewarded for academic success. In your response explicitly called the comparison of racial groups racist. Sure, you didn't call me racist. You just called what I did in the previous comment racist - as though I can't connect the dots.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34673876

Yikes...

The only weak dodge here is your continued insistence I haven't supported my claim when in fact I have well beyond your ability to refute it; so you cling onto this clearly false claim that I haven't as some way of sidestepping your failure to directly address what I've claimed.

Shroedinger's racism: the person is simultaneously racist and non-racist at the same time.

You edited your comment after my response, that's what it read before you changed it to "...say and do very racist things."

You now want to tell black kids that everything's shit so there's no point trying, then point to the inevitable result of that lack of effort as racism? Are you not the racist?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gatn5ameRr8

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/beyond-red-v...