While it is clear that the guy is a brainwashed moron, I would like to give him the benefit of the doubt. This excerpt could just as easily be interpreted as him saying that his "privilege" was that he was taught to read well and his intention is to create a system that teaches black kids to read well too. If you think this is a ridiculous interpretation you probably don't understand the principle reasoning behind creating the common core.

So let's start by clarifying what and why it is. Before the common core each school was allowed to teach whatever and however they wanted. The result was that there were huge differences in how well kids learned school to school, but they all used the same grading scale. So an A+ student from one school could easily be less educated than an F student from another. Then they head off to college and the A+ student inexplicably flunks out. Or worse they go out into the world literally illiterate. The schools were failing students by giving them good grades instead of teaching them.

The point of the common core was to create a standard bar that each student would have to pass. The way to measure this was with nation wide standard tests. Every student everywhere has to take the same test, the same way, in order to make sure all the schools are actually teaching kids the things that are most important. This way you can no longer graduate an illiterate student; something that was mostly done by schools that were predominantly minority.

I never hear anyone who complains about common core ever say anything that would indicate they actually understand this. Teachers hate it because it measures their effectiveness in teaching and they hate that. They used to be able to get away with not teaching anything and just handing out grades any way they wanted. Now their performance is measured and they hate that. And people just believe the propaganda they spew without a second thought.