ublic Schools"). While students are dealing with just trying to survive, many of the teachers and administrators have networked and organized themselves for increased salaries and benefits to resist attempts to integrate the racist education bureaucracy. It is only racist opportunism that can explain why this bizarre, failed occupational group of educational functionaries has no remorse or guilt over the fact that they have not served in the interest of minority students and communities. Along with the harsh times they face at school, minorities could be offered an even greater challenge. The racist police station is the most feared institution in a minority community, which will give minority students yet another reason to drop out ("NYPD in Public Schools"). Though in many citizens' eyes, the teachers' and administrators' behavior is completely inappropriate, statistics have shown that they may have some justification. The problem is that these teachers and administrators are confused. They have problems distinguishing between two black cultures. The dominant black culture of hard work, family solidarity, middle-class dreams, church, and biblical values has been completely severed from another black culture that is a social and cultural wreck. This cultural wreck is often called the black underclass. It consists of the 1.6 million blacks living in neighborhoods with disproportionately high illegitimacy, welfare dependency, school dropout rate, male unemployment, and rate of violent crime. Also, African American adults are arrested for a disproportionate share of property crimes, including two of every five automobile thefts (Herbert). To many, these statistics are good reasons for the actions that teachers and administrators are taking. However, unadorned racism cloaked in rationality is no less despicable. This deception also does not change the fact that blacks are rejected for mortgages at twice the rate of whites, and the denial r...
