Jeff Jacoby, who writes for the Boston Globe, has a superb column today wherein he muses on the high degree of academic success among children from Asian families — they are terribly overrepresented among students who excel at math, win spelling bees, get admitted into MIT, and so on — and contends that it has everything to do with a culture that demands results and doesn’t accept excuses.
He also muses on a current brouhaha in Boston where the black candidate to head up UMASS-Boston was not chosen but a white candidate was. Naturally, that has set off the gang of officials who never hesitate to play the race card, but Jacoby wonders what kind of message it sends to black children when racism is immediately invoked to denounce a personnel decision made on the basis of qualifications.
