[Ben E Lou]

To be clear on my position, stick a five-year-old in one of the tiny handful of affluent predominately black elementary schools for a few months, then stick him out in a low-performing predominately white school in the sticks for a few months, and I'll guarantee his answers would be reversed. ("Black kids are smart! White kids are mean!")

The sad-but-true fact (at least in Georgia) is that it's just more likely that a white kid is going to be raised in an environment conducive to performing well in school, and it's just more likely that a black kid is going to be raised in an environment conducive to being "mean."