I think the second part is something that white people add to either shame blacks or to accuse asians of racism. Asians don’t think blacks value education less than we do. We think that EVERYONE values education less that we do. By far the largest group that asians have displaced in competitive schools are white kids. The disparity between whites and blacks cannot be explained by the disparity between asians and anyone else.
The necessary historical context is also that asians were already a model minority. White supremacists didn’t create asian success they used it to try and disguise the fact that racism is the cause of much of the black white disparity.
This subset of asians from confucian countries accounts for the majority of asian americans.
If you add indian american (the most affluent well educated asian american group that is in fact pretty self selected), filipino american, (the second most affluent asian amercan group, which is also largely self selected), and pakistani americans, you have covered over 95% of asians.
I don’t see why we have to bring black academic success into a discussion about asian academic success unless you think one has something to do with the other?
YOu can suspect all you want but if youa re going to call every attempt to point out differences in culture as the source of disparities in outcome, you are simply ignoring evidence because it offends your sensibilities. Aren’t you?