Nicole Hannah-Jones Article

I'll applaud one aspect: it was truthful. She almost puts it together. But we should stop there. For someone in her position to be so lacking in common sense for much of her adult life is truly astonishing.  She denigrated and called racist all the people who got to where she is now intellectually. Her own daughter, at age 10 or so, figured out what everyone knows - certain schools suck and can't be fixed in a timely enough manner for it to matter to the current student population.

But the truly most ridiculous thing she writes is being totally in the dark about how her daughter thought she knew math, but actually didn't. One of the reasons Asian kids seem to do well in school is that no Asian-American parent would ever let this happen. And truth be told, very few just above-average, college-educated folks of any color would either. Personally, I don't trust the schools, so I'm quite on top of various subjects, including math. But even if you were the type of parent who wasn't too on top of it, math comes up in daily life and in basic things like board games and discussions. Even things like long division, which her daughter didn't know. I find it almost hard to understand how a parent could be so blind. She interacts with her daughter, doesn't she? Did she not notice her multiplying and dividing up things wrong all the time? I just find it very confusing.