Thursday, March 25, 2010

The vast majority of black children are raised in stable, loving homes

Tracey Reynolds

It's not lone parenting but institutional racism that is failing African Caribbean boys


Tony Sewell claims that "more than racism, I firmly believe that the main problem holding black boys back academically is their overfeminised upbringing" (The boys are too feminised, 16 March). But this falls into the easy route of blaming lone mothers and the absence of fathers for wider problems of institutional racism and structural inequality that black boys (and black girls) encounter in the educational and criminal justice systems.  Read more...




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