Bernard Coard

They were hoping to find that boys without dads do worse than girls without dads, and they didn't find it.

the boys weren't hit harder by the absent fathers right so no dad in the house cannot be the main thing it cannot be the main reason dragging the boys down over here specifically because it would drag the daughters down too and it doesn't so something else is grabbing the boys and to find it i've got to tell you about a man called bernard coard he's from grenada and he wrote a little book it was only 50 pages and it was called how the west indian child is made educationally subnormal in the british school system educationally subnormal that was an actual official category and what kohar proved was that british schools were taking caribbean kids and disproportionately the boys and sticking them in front of biased iq test they were never gonna pass and shipping them off to subnormal schools that in his words prepared them for survival not for excelling by 1970 ethnic minorities were 70 of kids in normal london schools but 34 of the kids in these subnormal ones double now i I wasn't alive in that time, but that is fucking nuts.

Basically, that's a country looking at a generation of black boys and deciding on purpose with paperwork that they were stupid.

And if you think that's ancient history, Steve McQueen made a whole film about it.