Soon after he left Ohio and returned to California, a black parent from Shaker Heights went on TV and called him an "academic Clarence Thomas."
Perhaps part of these kids' problem is that they have parents who think that being compared to Clarence Thomas is an insult.
Such theorists often cite the 1994 publication of The Bell Curve, which argued that blacks are intellectually inferior to whites, as evidence that negative stereotyping of African Americans still exists.
I don't think any of the critics, nor the author of this article, have actually read The Bell Curve.