Preach it brother, preach it....
Yep, I'm a teacher who works with 95% minority kids, and I think all the world of them and have never thought for an instant that they couldn't do anything they put themselves to with all determination, and so many of them have over the years; I could not possibly be more proud of them, or love them any more than I do. Wouldn't matter to loudmouths like that article writer, though.