COSTLY MYTHS:  Certain myths are so commonplace on the left that I really don’t know how to bring them back to reality.  One is that crimes rates are equal across all racial groups and that if arrest rates differ it must be due to police officer racism.  A variation on that concedes that crime rates are different, but has an unusual explanation for it:  The claim is that African American children misbehave in school no more that Asian students, but they get punished more due to teacher racism.  This is turn causes the students to miss school due to suspensions.  They get behind in their studies and end up turning to crime when they get older.  I know it sounds like I must have simply misunderstood the argument, but that’s really not the case.  I dissented from a Commission on Civil Rights report that made that kind of argument here.