Thinking of sending my white child to Banneker

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread proves that white people are afraid of dealing with the systemic injustices they have created which may now affect their kids. "History's Greatest Villian" implies your child may use the n word. Seems like we might be using this language at home and worried it might slip out. White folks are always worried about how blacks will treat them but don't have any concerns for teaching themselves and their children about how to treat others with respect. Dcum always supports the racist and ignorant tropes about black people - even our best students are assumed to bully a white child? Why? Just because if a black kid is a minority in an all white school, the white kids will bully him/her so of course black people will do the same. Ridiculous!

Nobody in DC uses the “n word” at home. The only people who use are (probably elderly) good ol’ boys from Trump country, rappers, and wannabe rappers.

This is not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread proves that white people are afraid of dealing with the systemic injustices they have created which may now affect their kids. "History's Greatest Villian" implies your child may use the n word. Seems like we might be using this language at home and worried it might slip out. White folks are always worried about how blacks will treat them but don't have any concerns for teaching themselves and their children about how to treat others with respect. Dcum always supports the racist and ignorant tropes about black people - even our best students are assumed to bully a white child? Why? Just because if a black kid is a minority in an all white school, the white kids will bully him/her so of course black people will do the same. Ridiculous!

Nobody in DC uses the “n word” at home. The only people who use are (probably elderly) good ol’ boys from Trump country, rappers, and wannabe rappers.

This is not true.

+1.

Just had a foreigner friend remark how he had heard AAs repeteadly used the n word in the street and how shocked he was at the stupidity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread proves that white people are afraid of dealing with the systemic injustices they have created which may now affect their kids. "History's Greatest Villian" implies your child may use the n word. Seems like we might be using this language at home and worried it might slip out. White folks are always worried about how blacks will treat them but don't have any concerns for teaching themselves and their children about how to treat others with respect. Dcum always supports the racist and ignorant tropes about black people - even our best students are assumed to bully a white child? Why? Just because if a black kid is a minority in an all white school, the white kids will bully him/her so of course black people will do the same. Ridiculous!

Nobody in DC uses the “n word” at home. The only people who use are (probably elderly) good ol’ boys from Trump country, rappers, and wannabe rappers.

This is not true.

+1.

Just had a foreigner friend remark how he had heard AAs repeteadly used the n word in the street and how shocked he was at the stupidity.

AA’s maybe, but not educated white people. Some people (I’m looking at you Michael Eric Dyson) seem to believe that white people get together behind closed doors and say all sorts slurs like we’re in Montgomery in the 1950’s. It’s just not reality.

There may be a lot of things to complain about in the world today, but use of the n-word by non-AA urban professionals isn’t it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well there’s a difference between being stigmatized for an individual trait — fat, lazy, stupid, etc — and being stigmatized because you’re part of a racial or ethnic group, which is something you can’t escape no matter what you do.

Yes well who knows this better than Black people?!?! So it has been my kid’s experience at a predominantly black school that the kids have been the most welcoming and least likely to bully on differences. Some of the posts on this thread sound like they drifted over from 4chan to troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well there’s a difference between being stigmatized for an individual trait — fat, lazy, stupid, etc — and being stigmatized because you’re part of a racial or ethnic group, which is something you can’t escape no matter what you do.

Yes well who knows this better than Black people?!?! So it has been my kid’s experience at a predominantly black school that the kids have been the most welcoming and least likely to bully on differences. Some of the posts on this thread sound like they drifted over from 4chan to troll.

No troll here. My kid has had a different experience. It seems difficult for some to grasp that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm white. My kids are a long ways away from high school. But, assuming they can get in, they're going to Banneker. We don't care about it being mostly black. We just want them to go to a good school and we can't afford privates or to live near Wilson. My kids have never gone to a school where they weren't in the minority. I think it's good for them.

Please check back with us once your children are above 4th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well there’s a difference between being stigmatized for an individual trait — fat, lazy, stupid, etc — and being stigmatized because you’re part of a racial or ethnic group, which is something you can’t escape no matter what you do.

Yes well who knows this better than Black people?!?! So it has been my kid’s experience at a predominantly black school that the kids have been the most welcoming and least likely to bully on differences. Some of the posts on this thread sound like they drifted over from 4chan to troll.

Both of my now 20 year old stepkids went to racially diverse schools. They both got a lot of grief and bullying from black kids about being mixed race and acting white. One of them wrote her college entrance essay about the negative experiences. Both of them also say they would be more likely the send their kids to a predominantly white school because they never had any problems with white students.

[Anonymous]

My non-religious friend’s child went to a majority Hispanic school and got mercilessly taunted that she would gonto Hell because she was not Catholic.

Without some thought and education, groups can tend toward tribalism.

With that said, I would expect Banneker students to be fairly enlightened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well there’s a difference between being stigmatized for an individual trait — fat, lazy, stupid, etc — and being stigmatized because you’re part of a racial or ethnic group, which is something you can’t escape no matter what you do.

Yes well who knows this better than Black people?!?! So it has been my kid’s experience at a predominantly black school that the kids have been the most welcoming and least likely to bully on differences. Some of the posts on this thread sound like they drifted over from 4chan to troll.

Both of my now 20 year old stepkids went to racially diverse schools. They both got a lot of grief and bullying from black kids about being mixed race and acting white. One of them wrote her college entrance essay about the negative experiences. Both of them also say they would be more likely the send their kids to a predominantly white school because they never had any problems with white students.

The "acting white" thing is very real and very shameful, not to mention dumb and racist.

[Anonymous]

Re: acting white. Just think about your white kid acting black you say you have class problems instead of race issues or whatever but when the shoe’s on the other foot it’s easy to see the ingroup acting like outgroup dynamics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread proves that white people are afraid of dealing with the systemic injustices they have created which may now affect their kids. "History's Greatest Villian" implies your child may use the n word. Seems like we might be using this language at home and worried it might slip out. White folks are always worried about how blacks will treat them but don't have any concerns for teaching themselves and their children about how to treat others with respect. Dcum always supports the racist and ignorant tropes about black people - even our best students are assumed to bully a white child? Why? Just because if a black kid is a minority in an all white school, the white kids will bully him/her so of course black people will do the same. Ridiculous!

Nobody in DC uses the “n word” at home. The only people who use are (probably elderly) good ol’ boys from Trump country, rappers, and wannabe rappers.

This is not true.

This thread proves that conservative trolls can get DCUM people to argue about bullsh*t.
At least half of the posts here are conservatives lying about their DCPS parent status and race and trying to incite parents.

Don’t feed the trolls. Don’t reply to this thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dude white people come to DC not thinking as a majority or plurality of Americans how they can not be most of whoever is around. Then they live in Upper Upper which is still mostly white. I’m white and yeah it takes a minute to get used to being a minority - but it’s FINE. Your kid being in a school that’s mostly black or now mixed black and Hispanic is FINE. Sure. Cultural commonalities to be honest May not be as strong as some other situations but - don’t you LIKE doing new and interesting things and meeting new people? Isn’t a more unified American society something good we can pass onto our kids? It’s weird to say something like this but maybe it’s necessary: do not be afraid of black people. Just - don’t let your willingness to mix along that axis be part of your life. Move on. Your kids are going to be FINE.

It is because at some level, the white people posting still do not see minorities as people and peers. They don’t realize that if their kids go to school with all white kids they will be picked on for being fat, or ugly, or stupid, or smart, or whatever characteristic that sets them apart from others. But the fear of being called a cracker is a worse fear...uh ok?!

Just to clarify, I'm not afraid my kid's going to be called a cracker. I mean, if I were, I wouldn't be sending my kid to a majority minority school. My fear is that at some point my middle-school kid is going to respond in kind--even though we've taught them from an early age the n-word is radioactive, and we never use the word at home or anywhere else (though they've certainly heard it used at school). Because at that point it's likely the adults get involved.

So, in short, what I'm concerned about is that adults will elevate middle-school nonsense to the level of local newscasts and we'll be back to hashing things out here on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread proves that white people are afraid of dealing with the systemic injustices they have created which may now affect their kids. "History's Greatest Villian" implies your child may use the n word. Seems like we might be using this language at home and worried it might slip out. White folks are always worried about how blacks will treat them but don't have any concerns for teaching themselves and their children about how to treat others with respect. Dcum always supports the racist and ignorant tropes about black people - even our best students are assumed to bully a white child? Why? Just because if a black kid is a minority in an all white school, the white kids will bully him/her so of course black people will do the same. Ridiculous!

Nobody in DC uses the “n word” at home. The only people who use are (probably elderly) good ol’ boys from Trump country, rappers, and wannabe rappers.

Not sure if they're using the n-word "at home", but a small but vocal number of middle-school students are certainly using it at school. Which is not surprising given its common usage in popular music.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread proves that white people are afraid of dealing with the systemic injustices they have created which may now affect their kids. "History's Greatest Villian" implies your child may use the n word. Seems like we might be using this language at home and worried it might slip out. White folks are always worried about how blacks will treat them but don't have any concerns for teaching themselves and their children about how to treat others with respect. Dcum always supports the racist and ignorant tropes about black people - even our best students are assumed to bully a white child? Why? Just because if a black kid is a minority in an all white school, the white kids will bully him/her so of course black people will do the same. Ridiculous!

Nobody in DC uses the “n word” at home. The only people who use are (probably elderly) good ol’ boys from Trump country, rappers, and wannabe rappers.

Not sure if they're using the n-word "at home", but a small but vocal number of middle-school students are certainly using it at school. Which is not surprising given its common usage in popular music.

Middle and high school kids - especially boys - occasionally use nasty language because they think its edgy to say shocking and transgressive things. No surprise that immature kids might say something dumb as they try to one-up and out-shock each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dude white people come to DC not thinking as a majority or plurality of Americans how they can not be most of whoever is around. Then they live in Upper Upper which is still mostly white. I’m white and yeah it takes a minute to get used to being a minority - but it’s FINE. Your kid being in a school that’s mostly black or now mixed black and Hispanic is FINE. Sure. Cultural commonalities to be honest May not be as strong as some other situations but - don’t you LIKE doing new and interesting things and meeting new people? Isn’t a more unified American society something good we can pass onto our kids? It’s weird to say something like this but maybe it’s necessary: do not be afraid of black people. Just - don’t let your willingness to mix along that axis be part of your life. Move on. Your kids are going to be FINE.

It is because at some level, the white people posting still do not see minorities as people and peers. They don’t realize that if their kids go to school with all white kids they will be picked on for being fat, or ugly, or stupid, or smart, or whatever characteristic that sets them apart from others. But the fear of being called a cracker is a worse fear...uh ok?!

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