D'Souza claims racial discrimination doesn't cause group differences in academic and economic achievement, but research shows the opposite: school segregation, unequal resources, and systemic bias measurably widen achievement gaps, especially once students enter school. The achievement gap at kindergarten entry is largely explained by socioeconomic disparities, but the gap *grows* in school systems where Black and Hispanic students attend lower-quality schools than white peers, pointing directly to discrimination and systemic inequality as drivers of divergence. His framing omits this evidence while inverting the research consensus.