To Be Equal

Former V.P. Pence Claims there's no racial inequity in education.He's very, very wrong. (and unlike Pence, we know the numbers)

- Marc H. Morial

"Decades of research indicate that racism underour public girds institutions and shapes various aspects of our contemporary society, including public policies. These policies, in turn, shape local school practices that impact the day-to-day experiences of students in classrooms. Even as schools are shaped by broader trends of racial inequality, they serve to maintain - or in rare cases disrupt racial inequality for students and families." The Inequality Project, Columbia University.

Former Vice President and current Presidential candidate Mike Pence, who presided during the most aggressive rollback of civil rights in more than a century, brazenly told the nation this week he doesn't believe there is racial inequity in the nation's education system.

Confronted with evidence to the contrary, he ducked the question. "I haven't seen your studies. I don't know the numbers."

We do know the numbers, and Pence is dead wrong.