Shortly after Baltimore erupted in riots this spring, forcing a public reckoning with the many ways American society has denied opportunity to blacks, a counter-meme emerged among some conservatives. The Baltimore school district, they argued, spends more lavishly on its students — $15,287 per pupil — than just about any other community in the country. So how can there still be structural disadvantage or lingering racism in a city that spends so muchon its poor black kids?
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