>>509464196 (OP)This is just blatantly false. I know a lot of blacks “can’t read” in the sense that they have trouble with big words and proper spelling and as well as grammar, but that doesn’t account for these numbers. Furthermore, even if you were to add all the Hispanics and other immigrant populations who refuse to learn any English because all the documents they need will be provided in their language or they’ll have a family or community member read it, it still doesn’t account for it.
My guess is that this is the classic Cuba situation. 99% of people in Cuba are literate, supposedly only like 75% of people in the US are. What people either fail to realize or intentionally neglect for propaganda purposes is that every country applies a different standard to determine literacy rates. In the United States, you need to be able to read and write at a certain level, while in many other nations, the standard for literacy is genuinely, and I’m not kidding being able to read and write your own name, and understand extremely basic sentences that you’d use to teach a child to read their first sentence. Like, sentences that even if you can’t actually read, you’d understand because the words are so easy, such as “get in the car”.
I understand there are mentally retarded people, I also remember meeting people when I was really young, who were really old at the time who somehow just slipped through the system and were never taught to read back in the day, I know there are people who refuse to learn English despite falsely claiming ti understand it in record, and I know black people say things like “posed to be” instead of supposed, and unironically think that’s how you say it, but the numbers simply aren’t as high as claimed. Even if the statistics are taken at face value, that 30% of a state can’t read and write above a 5th grade level, we must also account for what that standard entails specifically, and if it reflects reality.
