It is a logical outcome of 40 years of government policy predicated on minimizing the need for two parent nuclear families. The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), a liberal lion who played Cassandra to the expanding welfare state, warned of the effects aggressive social welfare programs would have on society.

Pretending the nuclear family no longer matters, society has opened the door to hucksters in education peddling alternative theories for the racial achievement gap that ignore, dismiss, or explain away the decline of the nuclear family.

Glenn Singleton wrote “Courageous Conversations About Race” pretending racism explains the gap. Any person calling his own work “courageous” is typically not. In fact, Singleton’s work conforms to the politically correct pablum of modern education elites. Conforming is not courageous. Neither is Superintendent Romain Dallemand’s attempt to bring Singleton to Middle Georgia.

White intellectuals at the upper stratum of education elites find solace in Singleton’s unproven theories that their latent, subconscious white racism, is to blame for black children’s achievement gap. The book’s style lends itself to nebulous interpretations. Does he really think only whites and Asians can be racist? Seemingly so, but he writes a bit mysteriously, making his theories open to interpretation.

In Communist China during its barbaric cultural revolution, the communists forced dissenters to wear placards around their necks expressing shame for their thoughts. George Mason University’s History News Network notes that in Chapel Hill, N.C., thanks to Singleton’s personal cultural revolution, teachers submit to an exercise called “The Color Line,” from which they derive a score based on their benefiting from their race. The teachers must then wear a placard around their neck showing their score and their shame.

Portraying teachers as subconscious racists avoids focusing on or, at least, provides an easy excuse for the destruction of nuclear families in black households in the past four decades.

The Seattle, Washington public school system hired Singleton’s Pacific Educational Group. Seattle took to PEG’s approach and Singleton’s beliefs, thereafter novelly defining “cultural racism” within its school curriculum. Seattle’s definition was “Those aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and whiteness, and devalue, stereotype, and label people of color as “other,” different, less than, or render them invisible. Examples of these norms include defining white skin tones as nude or flesh colored, having a future time orientation, emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology, defining one form of English as standard, and identifying only whites as great writers or composers.”

Learning proper English is racist. Learning how to plan for the future is racist. An appreciation of the American ideals chronicled by de Tocqueville, including the rugged individualist spirit of its people, is racist. The United States Supreme Court did not take too kindly to Seattle’s definitional games.

Singleton’s “blame the racist teachers” approach has taken off in Minnesota, which is probably where Dallemand first heard of him. What Dallemand might not know or care about though is that after making Singleton a very rich man, Minnesota school districts using Singleton’s methodology have no statistically positive metrics to prove the program works, but have communities more divided over race. The achievement gap remains.

Based on Singleton’s teachings, it means institutional racism remains. Bibb County will graduate students who cannot get a job because they cannot speak proper English or plan for the future, but the students will take comfort knowing it is not their fault. They are just victims of their teachers’ latent racism.

Erick Erickson is a CNN contributor and radio talk show host in Atlanta.