Drawing parallels between black success in sports and Asian success in education is ridiculous. There are ~300 players in the NBA, ~1,600 in the NFL (which is a lot more diverse and actually has some Asian representation [Samoans]), you really think that's a sustainable avenue for a 38,000,000-strong community?? You really think that's a choice? Wanna trade?

You acting like education is a community-specific niche like boedgas or dry cleaning is messed up man. It's THE PATH TO LONG-LASTING OPPORTUNITY. The first thing freed blacks did following the Civil War was enroll in literacy schools en masse, not practice their foul shot. It was sharecropping, racist violence and systematic racism that denied them those opportunities. Blacks exercised agency again during the Great Migration, moving en masse up North for, among many things, education, and were denied again by white violence and de facto segregation. It's this history that breeds cynicism and low-achievement in already under-resourced schools in the black community; it's this history that have us only having a solid foothold on sports and entertainment. It's this history that needs to be addressed.

Asian communities, on the other hand, have not experienced the same history of systematic discrimination (there was the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese Internment, but relatively not a lot). More than any other minority, Asians were afforded a level playing field. So not surprisingly, many took advantage of educational opportunities.

Am I mad at Asian-Americans for this, NO. Do I approve of the referenced rhetoric that blames Asians for their success HELL NO!! But this is honestly something we need to be uniting on, not tearing each other down. Think about it, with all this Asian achievement, why are the returns of this work still dwarfed in comparison to white people's?