The original draft of this email was sent to Washington Post reporter Perry Stein and copied to several of her Post colleagues, Brookings Institution scholar Vanessa Williamson — the principal author of a new “study” the Post story reports — and two of Williamson’s Brookings colleagues. The study purports to show that modern-day school segregation in thoroughly progressive Washington, D.C., lingers, at least in part, because an online parent forum allows anonymously discriminatory attitudes to spread unchecked. Neither the study nor The Post’s reporting breathes an unwoke word about the fatherless chaos that is truly at the root of sensible parents’ desires to keep their kids out of certain schools.
Dear Ms. Stein,
Vanessa Williamson and other white-guilt-stricken bleeding-hearts at Brookings, The Post and elsewhere may be inclined to overthink things so as to avoid immutable truths not talked about in politically correct, woke society. But the simple fact is that no sensible parents of any race or socioeconomic status want their children attending schools in which a majority of students are born to and raised by single mothers (or single grandmothers, as is too often the case these days) [“Forum talk bolsters segregation, study finds,” B1, Apr. 3].
Contrary to Brookings, attitudes expressed in online forums by parents in so-called “gentrifying” neighborhoods — whatever that means, since virtually every neighborhood in every American city has been steadily changing to one degree or another since the dawn of the Republic — are not at the heart of modern-day school segregation.
Fatherless chaos, and every parents’ perfectly rational desire to protect their kids from it, is the issue. And only when “scholars,” “journalists” and others are brave enough to say so out loud will we be able as a society to begin taking steps to reduce fatherlessness and the chaos it invariably breeds in our schools and on our streets.
No one wants their kid going to school, for example, with the likes of the13- and 15-year-old grrrrrlz who’ll now and forever be known as murderous carjackers more worried about a cell phone than a man’s life. Had they ever known the loving discipline and guidance of fathers married to their mothers, their lives likely would have been much different.
Darren McKinney, Washington, D.C.