Okay, fair enough. Ultimately we live in a world that is still dominated by Europe and America. In order for children to have the best chance of succeeding in this world, it’s necessary for them to have a basic grasp of how things ended up this way. And most of the main characters in that story were of European extraction. That’s the rub of it. It’s not pretty, but it is what it is.

Education is not a purely intellectual pursuit, it’s actually primarily an economic one, now more than ever. I didn’t create this situation, so please don’t go after me for explaining it.