I understand the need for "Empowering Males of Color", but the tone of this is exclusive offensive

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus, you people are embarrassing. These initiatives are not new (2015 at least), and they are designed to try to empower and boost achievement for groups that have historically have been left behind. I believe Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative was part of the inspiration.

You people complain that Black communities don't do enough to address problems in their own community and then get angry when we try to direct resources toward our children designed to do exactly that.

This is true but at least some of the school-based initiatives have expanded from exclusivity to include '& allies." The adults organizing these events should consider the impact on all of the children. The kids probably see the inherent separation as problematic and say something especially since much of the DCPS curriculum is centered around civil rights.

oh ffs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Autism is not a protected class of people, it is completely irrelevant.

of course it is - people with a disability.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one is questioning having a "leadership" program for males in disadvantaged communities. The problem is when the government explicitly ties that to race instead of doing so implicitly. It's just like religious stuff in schools. One religion is a no-no. Interfaith is ok. Just because everyone involved might belong to a single religion doesn't matter as long as the program itself is interfaith on its surface. They only have to take out the one sentence to make it legal.

jfk, doing something racist “implicitly” does not make it legal.

that said, directing specific places and programs to a specific gender or race isn’t illegal.

It does in practice. Unless you can prove intent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus, you people are embarrassing. These initiatives are not new (2015 at least), and they are designed to try to empower and boost achievement for groups that have historically have been left behind. I believe Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative was part of the inspiration.

You people complain that Black communities don't do enough to address problems in their own community and then get angry when we try to direct resources toward our children designed to do exactly that.

Please stop with the absurdist inflammatory bs assumptions about people's motivations. Look at the difference between what you wrote and what DCPS wrote. What you wrote is legal. What DCPS rote is.not. What is the difference? In your (and Obama's) basic formulation the program is race neutral but implicitly targeted. The DCPS version is not race neutral and is explicit Explicit is illegal but implicit is not. The program however doesn't change.

?? PP made an excellent point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one is questioning having a "leadership" program for males in disadvantaged communities. The problem is when the government explicitly ties that to race instead of doing so implicitly. It's just like religious stuff in schools. One religion is a no-no. Interfaith is ok. Just because everyone involved might belong to a single religion doesn't matter as long as the program itself is interfaith on its surface. They only have to take out the one sentence to make it legal.

jfk, doing something racist “implicitly” does not make it legal.

that said, directing specific places and programs to a specific gender or race isn’t illegal.

It does in practice. Unless you can prove intent.

yeah sweetie, you know nothing about the actual law. byeeee!

[Anonymous]

I don't think asking questions about this event makes anybody a racist. That is crazy and throwing around the term so casually really makes it difficult for people to engage in a meaningful conversation.

[Anonymous]

Make way. Step back. Move aside. Please let them through to the front of the line. Then what?

[Anonymous]

I’m surprised and sickened (but guess I should not be) at how QUICKLY the backlash to the George Floyd protests and America’s momentary reckoning with racism has arisen. The racists and conservatives were evidently extremely threatened by the sight of black people in the streets and seeing the scales fall off of many white peoples’ eyes. Now here we are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think asking questions about this event makes anybody a racist. That is crazy and throwing around the term so casually really makes it difficult for people to engage in a meaningful conversation.

it’s racist to be aggreived by this, and if you don’t understand why, you need to hang out in more black spaces online and read up.

could you file a lawsuit and get some traction claiming your white Larlo was discriminated against? Maybe.

But your choice to attack and event intended to give a boost to black boys and girls is racist.

[Anonymous]

This is the type of thread usually found in the MD or VA forums, not DC schools.

My guess is that many of the folks offended by the subject of the event live in the suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the type of thread usually found in the MD or VA forums, not DC schools.

My guess is that many of the folks offended by the subject of the event live in the suburbs.

True, but there are some Trump Admin and right-wing thinktank folk who have kids in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the type of thread usually found in the MD or VA forums, not DC schools.

My guess is that many of the folks offended by the subject of the event live in the suburbs.

True, but there are some Trump Admin and right-wing thinktank folk who have kids in DCPS.

PP here, I haven't encountered them in my EOTP neighborhood, but you're probably right.

[Anonymous]

If you think this activity would benefit your white child, send them. No one is going to turn them away. Look at the gaps for Black students in academics, high school completion, college enrollment. How can you begrude those students some extra programming?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think asking questions about this event makes anybody a racist. That is crazy and throwing around the term so casually really makes it difficult for people to engage in a meaningful conversation.

I mean, what do you want to discuss? The finer legal points about how you could bring a reverse discrimination lawsuit? The need to block black kids from getting support tailored to their lives? The fact that your white child feels excluded? You want a White Empowerment seminar for your child?

About the ONLY thing people of good will have to discuss here is the fact that DCPS would be well-advised to add an asterisk “all are welcome” to deal with the new “concerned” citizens, and hope for the best there is no trolling or disruption.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the type of thread usually found in the MD or VA forums, not DC schools.

My guess is that many of the folks offended by the subject of the event live in the suburbs.

True, but there are some Trump Admin and right-wing thinktank folk who have kids in DCPS.

PP here, I haven't encountered them in my EOTP neighborhood, but you're probably right.

if you’re on the Hill, you just don’t know where to look. They are here but stay undergound