Discrimination against Asians

[Anonymous]

Those supporting race-based affirmative action should be ostracized to the same degree as KKK members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those supporting race-based affirmative action should be ostracized to the same degree as KKK members.

Historically white women are the group who has benefited the most from affirmative action.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those supporting race-based affirmative action should be ostracized to the same degree as KKK members.

Historically white women are the group who has benefited the most from affirmative action.

I think PP was using "affirmative action" ironically. The premise behind affirmative action, when it works, isn't about changing what the system is, it's about letting people who've been unfairly denied opportunities get the same opportunities as everyone else, in the name of removing what you are from the picture.

In this situation, it is about changing what TJ is. It isn't about sharing the same opportunities, because we'd quite literally be taking away those opportunities from other minorities who've earned it. And it's definitely about making the system less color-blind. None of what works applies to this situation, unless I've missed something in all of the empty bluster and preening coming from the anti-TJ crowd.

The real problem here is that the people who like to think of themselves as the "real" Americans (we all know who we're talking about) also like to think of themselves as the only ones who understand the nuance of things like affirmative action. So as a result, opinions of certain minority groups (Asians, for one), are excluded from the politics, and thus go unrepresented when it comes to enacting any diversity initiative. The result is a "diversity" initiative which looks for all the world like it's meant to target Asians and help whites. The result is caricatured outlooks on race which make people think that only people who look a specific way are capable of facing discrimination. The result is policy which is a joke from the perspective of preserving anyone's rights. And the result is delegitimizing one of the few things which society got right - schools where exceptionally smart kids get supported by the community instead of consistently misunderstood by it.

[Anonymous]

Fcps is going to Make TJ Great Again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those supporting race-based affirmative action should be ostracized to the same degree as KKK members.

Historically white women are the group who has benefited the most from affirmative action.

I think PP was using "affirmative action" ironically. The premise behind affirmative action, when it works, isn't about changing what the system is, it's about letting people who've been unfairly denied opportunities get the same opportunities as everyone else, in the name of removing what you are from the picture.

In this situation, it is about changing what TJ is. It isn't about sharing the same opportunities, because we'd quite literally be taking away those opportunities from other minorities who've earned it. And it's definitely about making the system less color-blind. None of what works applies to this situation, unless I've missed something in all of the empty bluster and preening coming from the anti-TJ crowd.

The real problem here is that the people who like to think of themselves as the "real" Americans (we all know who we're talking about) also like to think of themselves as the only ones who understand the nuance of things like affirmative action. So as a result, opinions of certain minority groups (Asians, for one), are excluded from the politics, and thus go unrepresented when it comes to enacting any diversity initiative. The result is a "diversity" initiative which looks for all the world like it's meant to target Asians and help whites. The result is caricatured outlooks on race which make people think that only people who look a specific way are capable of facing discrimination. The result is policy which is a joke from the perspective of preserving anyone's rights. And the result is delegitimizing one of the few things which society got right - schools where exceptionally smart kids get supported by the community instead of consistently misunderstood by it.

FCPS never got it right by opening TJ. They would have been far better served by allowing the school to operate for a while in the late 80s and early 90s with a smaller enrollment. Then the school would have been available when the enrollment in FCPS started to increase again.

Instead, they created a mess in that part of the county. Annandale ended up overcrowded and had to spin off single-family neighborhoods to other schools, concentrating poverty at AHS. They had to force some kids in Springfield to cross both 395 and 495 to get to Edison. They are now expanding Justice to handle up to 2500 students, which is way too big for a school where a lot of kids need individual attention.

But the TJHSST crowd doesn't care about any of this as long as their own kids get into the special magnet. If they can't, of course, they will try to burn the whole house down, which is why absolutely despicable Asians like Asra Nomani are pushing petitions to recall School Board members and going on FOX News to trash FCPS every chance they get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those supporting race-based affirmative action should be ostracized to the same degree as KKK members.

Historically white women are the group who has benefited the most from affirmative action.

I think PP was using "affirmative action" ironically. The premise behind affirmative action, when it works, isn't about changing what the system is, it's about letting people who've been unfairly denied opportunities get the same opportunities as everyone else, in the name of removing what you are from the picture.

In this situation, it is about changing what TJ is. It isn't about sharing the same opportunities, because we'd quite literally be taking away those opportunities from other minorities who've earned it. And it's definitely about making the system less color-blind. None of what works applies to this situation, unless I've missed something in all of the empty bluster and preening coming from the anti-TJ crowd.

The real problem here is that the people who like to think of themselves as the "real" Americans (we all know who we're talking about) also like to think of themselves as the only ones who understand the nuance of things like affirmative action. So as a result, opinions of certain minority groups (Asians, for one), are excluded from the politics, and thus go unrepresented when it comes to enacting any diversity initiative. The result is a "diversity" initiative which looks for all the world like it's meant to target Asians and help whites. The result is caricatured outlooks on race which make people think that only people who look a specific way are capable of facing discrimination. The result is policy which is a joke from the perspective of preserving anyone's rights. And the result is delegitimizing one of the few things which society got right - schools where exceptionally smart kids get supported by the community instead of consistently misunderstood by it.

FCPS never got it right by opening TJ. They would have been far better served by allowing the school to operate for a while in the late 80s and early 90s with a smaller enrollment. Then the school would have been available when the enrollment in FCPS started to increase again.

Instead, they created a mess in that part of the county. Annandale ended up overcrowded and had to spin off single-family neighborhoods to other schools, concentrating poverty at AHS. They had to force some kids in Springfield to cross both 395 and 495 to get to Edison. They are now expanding Justice to handle up to 2500 students, which is way too big for a school where a lot of kids need individual attention.

But the TJHSST crowd doesn't care about any of this as long as their own kids get into the special magnet. If they can't, of course, they will try to burn the whole house down, which is why absolutely despicable Asians like Asra Nomani are pushing petitions to recall School Board members and going on FOX News to trash FCPS every chance they get.

Something tells me that number crunches would be a lot easier to resolve if not caring about gifted students and Asians weren't a hard-and-fast prerequisite.

[Anonymous]

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stay in your lane, white knight. slowly losing your power and privilege makes you say and do crazy things, right?? this has everything to do with you pitting different ethnic groups against each other and nothing to do with you giving handouts to select minority groups - if you really cared about african americans or hispanic americans, you give up you seats in the ivory tower like some white police chiefs have done. or, at the very least, you would be out their virtue signaling with your blm mask protesting how their neighborhood schools are perennially underfunded and are failing their kids. you wouldn't know because you don't intermingle but i've been out there fighting that fight long before george floyd. i cringe when white admin and teachers, along with white parents, are the loudest voices on buzzwords like blm and equity--for years, i confronted these people about their privilege and what it was doing to the school and the students, and they looked at me like i was crazy - now they pretend that they weren't on the wrong side literally months ago.

african americans and hispanic americans can and do speak for themselves when they aren't lied to about an issue and feel it's important, even when it comes to education. they don't need you to deceive them and then tell them how to do things, especially when it's often not in their best interest. and this is coming from a non-hispanic minority family who went to a majority hispanic/urm elementary school where the white principal and white pta president(s) made it a habit of coercing immigrant families by highly suggesting that their kids should get diagnosed with adhd or some other disorder with a promise to help them their kida when they came back with a letter - apparently this is a tactic, according to one past pta president, for the school to qualify for more funding (not sure if it was state or federal) when they pass some threshold - but i can't imagine what this tag does on these kids whose life trajectory has forever been altered. how do i know this happened? they tried to the same with ours but we fought back. afterwards, we talked to many other parents and, with a sample size of approximately two to three dozen, the same tactic seems to have been used primarily on unsuspecting non-English-speaking parents and not on white parents.

no sane person is saying that asians are superior to anyone - but many people are saying that white people have created and perpetuated most, if not all, of the problems in this country since they've controlled the legislature, budgets, media, police, and educational policies for 100s of years in this country. the fact that white people can't even properly acknowledge and apologize for the genocides and other atrocities that occurred in this country -- and have never paid reparations with their own generational wealth, land, and privilege to the descendants of african american, native american, hispanic american, and asian american victims -- tells you all you need to know.

AMEN!!!! There is so much truth in this post.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren't white folks supposed to be listening and absorbing their heretofor unacknowledged privelege as critical race theory dictates?
We FEEL offended and all these white people posts are micro agressions to us minorities.

Oh, yeah, I see. Critical race theory only applies to blacks.
Stop haranguing us white peeps, go plant your BLM, Love is love signs and whatever else you libs do in your free time.

BLM supporters didn’t start this topic nor do I even see the topic until you brought it up. There is a lot talk of Asian superiority over Blacks and hispanics, even to the extent one of the posters believes the spots in AAP occupied by students belonging to these groups which are underrepresented in the program should be occupied by Asian students. After all, white and Asian kids are superior to Black and hispanic students.

White people are funny. Always putting themselves in the middle of problems they created and pretending to be the hero. Tell me, how many white people in history have moved to a non-white country where they didn't know the language and had very little money, were discriminated against and made fun of, and were able to build entire communities of successful families and improved the greater community around them through paying taxes and making schools better? I only hear white oppressors in places like Zimbabwe and South Africa, who didn't struggle, complaining when their privilege rightly gets taken from them. And this is coming soon to an American city near you if it hasn't started happening already.

Lots of white people moved to what is now the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand - some voluntarily, others forcibly, most with very little money. AA's were forced to come to what is now the USA. Pre indoor plumbing, electricity, gas heat, roads. Machine powered ships.

The TJ concept was started during the magnet school inception era- use of capacity and presenting voluntary programs to get people into buildings. Check out the history of Bailey's and Hunters Woods plus other legacies of traditional local racism like the West Potomac/Mount Vernon and Sandburg/Whitman boundaries. VA programs for gifted include regs on nationally normed tests. TJ removes an entire building from inventory so it's real cost includes all additional capacity built and costs of boundary changes that never would have happened if it had reverted to a base school with an academy.

There are nuances to Sec of Ed Qarni 's endeavors. NOVA has had a massive infusion of FARMS and ELs in the Hispanic demographic. A good number of which came to FCPS with limited or interrupted formal education. This is not a stable ex-Cuban, Puerto Rican population. https://bluevirginia.us/2020/11/virginia-secretary-of-education-atif-qarni-to-hold-panel-discussion-on-combatting-racism-and-increased-school-segregation

"Many diasporas, like the Asian community which I belong to, deal with issues of colorism, classism, casteism, and other isms. I have decided to host this panel to address this very important issue and learn from the experts on how members of the Asian community can become allies in this important effort taking place across the Commonwealth of Virginia."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren't white folks supposed to be listening and absorbing their heretofor unacknowledged privelege as critical race theory dictates?
We FEEL offended and all these white people posts are micro agressions to us minorities.

Oh, yeah, I see. Critical race theory only applies to blacks.
Stop haranguing us white peeps, go plant your BLM, Love is love signs and whatever else you libs do in your free time.

BLM supporters didn’t start this topic nor do I even see the topic until you brought it up. There is a lot talk of Asian superiority over Blacks and hispanics, even to the extent one of the posters believes the spots in AAP occupied by students belonging to these groups which are underrepresented in the program should be occupied by Asian students. After all, white and Asian kids are superior to Black and hispanic students.

White people are funny. Always putting themselves in the middle of problems they created and pretending to be the hero. Tell me, how many white people in history have moved to a non-white country where they didn't know the language and had very little money, were discriminated against and made fun of, and were able to build entire communities of successful families and improved the greater community around them through paying taxes and making schools better? I only hear white oppressors in places like Zimbabwe and South Africa, who didn't struggle, complaining when their privilege rightly gets taken from them. And this is coming soon to an American city near you if it hasn't started happening already.

Lots of white people moved to what is now the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand - some voluntarily, others forcibly, most with very little money. AA's were forced to come to what is now the USA. Pre indoor plumbing, electricity, gas heat, roads. Machine powered ships.

The TJ concept was started during the magnet school inception era- use of capacity and presenting voluntary programs to get people into buildings. Check out the history of Bailey's and Hunters Woods plus other legacies of traditional local racism like the West Potomac/Mount Vernon and Sandburg/Whitman boundaries. VA programs for gifted include regs on nationally normed tests. TJ removes an entire building from inventory so it's real cost includes all additional capacity built and costs of boundary changes that never would have happened if it had reverted to a base school with an academy.

There are nuances to Sec of Ed Qarni 's endeavors. NOVA has had a massive infusion of FARMS and ELs in the Hispanic demographic. A good number of which came to FCPS with limited or interrupted formal education. This is not a stable ex-Cuban, Puerto Rican population. https://bluevirginia.us/2020/11/virginia-secretary-of-education-atif-qarni-to-hold-panel-discussion-on-combatting-racism-and-increased-school-segregation

"Many diasporas, like the Asian community which I belong to, deal with issues of colorism, classism, casteism, and other isms. I have decided to host this panel to address this very important issue and learn from the experts on how members of the Asian community can become allies in this important effort taking place across the Commonwealth of Virginia."

Black people are the indigenous people of America. Not all Blacks arrived on slave ships. That’s a lie that is being told to hide the theft of land from these people. This is documented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren't white folks supposed to be listening and absorbing their heretofor unacknowledged privelege as critical race theory dictates?
We FEEL offended and all these white people posts are micro agressions to us minorities.

Oh, yeah, I see. Critical race theory only applies to blacks.
Stop haranguing us white peeps, go plant your BLM, Love is love signs and whatever else you libs do in your free time.

BLM supporters didn’t start this topic nor do I even see the topic until you brought it up. There is a lot talk of Asian superiority over Blacks and hispanics, even to the extent one of the posters believes the spots in AAP occupied by students belonging to these groups which are underrepresented in the program should be occupied by Asian students. After all, white and Asian kids are superior to Black and hispanic students.

White people are funny. Always putting themselves in the middle of problems they created and pretending to be the hero. Tell me, how many white people in history have moved to a non-white country where they didn't know the language and had very little money, were discriminated against and made fun of, and were able to build entire communities of successful families and improved the greater community around them through paying taxes and making schools better? I only hear white oppressors in places like Zimbabwe and South Africa, who didn't struggle, complaining when their privilege rightly gets taken from them. And this is coming soon to an American city near you if it hasn't started happening already.

Lots of white people moved to what is now the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand - some voluntarily, others forcibly, most with very little money. AA's were forced to come to what is now the USA. Pre indoor plumbing, electricity, gas heat, roads. Machine powered ships.

The TJ concept was started during the magnet school inception era- use of capacity and presenting voluntary programs to get people into buildings. Check out the history of Bailey's and Hunters Woods plus other legacies of traditional local racism like the West Potomac/Mount Vernon and Sandburg/Whitman boundaries. VA programs for gifted include regs on nationally normed tests. TJ removes an entire building from inventory so it's real cost includes all additional capacity built and costs of boundary changes that never would have happened if it had reverted to a base school with an academy.

There are nuances to Sec of Ed Qarni 's endeavors. NOVA has had a massive infusion of FARMS and ELs in the Hispanic demographic. A good number of which came to FCPS with limited or interrupted formal education. This is not a stable ex-Cuban, Puerto Rican population. https://bluevirginia.us/2020/11/virginia-secretary-of-education-atif-qarni-to-hold-panel-discussion-on-combatting-racism-and-increased-school-segregation

"Many diasporas, like the Asian community which I belong to, deal with issues of colorism, classism, casteism, and other isms. I have decided to host this panel to address this very important issue and learn from the experts on how members of the Asian community can become allies in this important effort taking place across the Commonwealth of Virginia."

Black people are the indigenous people of America. Not all Blacks arrived on slave ships. That’s a lie that is being told to hide the theft of land from these people. This is documented.

No. Native Americans are the indigenous people of the land of America. Blacks/African Americans and "white" Europeans are the indigenous people to the sovereign nation of the United States of America. Frankly, why we tolerate any other groups in these equality discussions is beyond me. Those aforementioned three groups have a lot to discuss in this country, everyone else should have to operate in the system that those groups ( Native Americans, White, and African Americans) work out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren't white folks supposed to be listening and absorbing their heretofor unacknowledged privelege as critical race theory dictates?
We FEEL offended and all these white people posts are micro agressions to us minorities.

Oh, yeah, I see. Critical race theory only applies to blacks.
Stop haranguing us white peeps, go plant your BLM, Love is love signs and whatever else you libs do in your free time.

BLM supporters didn’t start this topic nor do I even see the topic until you brought it up. There is a lot talk of Asian superiority over Blacks and hispanics, even to the extent one of the posters believes the spots in AAP occupied by students belonging to these groups which are underrepresented in the program should be occupied by Asian students. After all, white and Asian kids are superior to Black and hispanic students.

White people are funny. Always putting themselves in the middle of problems they created and pretending to be the hero. Tell me, how many white people in history have moved to a non-white country where they didn't know the language and had very little money, were discriminated against and made fun of, and were able to build entire communities of successful families and improved the greater community around them through paying taxes and making schools better? I only hear white oppressors in places like Zimbabwe and South Africa, who didn't struggle, complaining when their privilege rightly gets taken from them. And this is coming soon to an American city near you if it hasn't started happening already.

Lots of white people moved to what is now the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand - some voluntarily, others forcibly, most with very little money. AA's were forced to come to what is now the USA. Pre indoor plumbing, electricity, gas heat, roads. Machine powered ships.

The TJ concept was started during the magnet school inception era- use of capacity and presenting voluntary programs to get people into buildings. Check out the history of Bailey's and Hunters Woods plus other legacies of traditional local racism like the West Potomac/Mount Vernon and Sandburg/Whitman boundaries. VA programs for gifted include regs on nationally normed tests. TJ removes an entire building from inventory so it's real cost includes all additional capacity built and costs of boundary changes that never would have happened if it had reverted to a base school with an academy.

There are nuances to Sec of Ed Qarni 's endeavors. NOVA has had a massive infusion of FARMS and ELs in the Hispanic demographic. A good number of which came to FCPS with limited or interrupted formal education. This is not a stable ex-Cuban, Puerto Rican population. https://bluevirginia.us/2020/11/virginia-secretary-of-education-atif-qarni-to-hold-panel-discussion-on-combatting-racism-and-increased-school-segregation

"Many diasporas, like the Asian community which I belong to, deal with issues of colorism, classism, casteism, and other isms. I have decided to host this panel to address this very important issue and learn from the experts on how members of the Asian community can become allies in this important effort taking place across the Commonwealth of Virginia."

The Asians at TJ for the most part have no interest in being allies with Atif Qarni. They want only to protect and expand their existing privileges. If they don’t get their way, they will do everything in their power to tear down not just TJ, but FCPS. They should be treated as hostile aggressors until they are ready to act in good faith. For many of them, that day will never come, so they must be ostracized just like other racist groups.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren't white folks supposed to be listening and absorbing their heretofor unacknowledged privelege as critical race theory dictates?
We FEEL offended and all these white people posts are micro agressions to us minorities.

Oh, yeah, I see. Critical race theory only applies to blacks.
Stop haranguing us white peeps, go plant your BLM, Love is love signs and whatever else you libs do in your free time.

BLM supporters didn’t start this topic nor do I even see the topic until you brought it up. There is a lot talk of Asian superiority over Blacks and hispanics, even to the extent one of the posters believes the spots in AAP occupied by students belonging to these groups which are underrepresented in the program should be occupied by Asian students. After all, white and Asian kids are superior to Black and hispanic students.

White people are funny. Always putting themselves in the middle of problems they created and pretending to be the hero. Tell me, how many white people in history have moved to a non-white country where they didn't know the language and had very little money, were discriminated against and made fun of, and were able to build entire communities of successful families and improved the greater community around them through paying taxes and making schools better? I only hear white oppressors in places like Zimbabwe and South Africa, who didn't struggle, complaining when their privilege rightly gets taken from them. And this is coming soon to an American city near you if it hasn't started happening already.

Lots of white people moved to what is now the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand - some voluntarily, others forcibly, most with very little money. AA's were forced to come to what is now the USA. Pre indoor plumbing, electricity, gas heat, roads. Machine powered ships.

The TJ concept was started during the magnet school inception era- use of capacity and presenting voluntary programs to get people into buildings. Check out the history of Bailey's and Hunters Woods plus other legacies of traditional local racism like the West Potomac/Mount Vernon and Sandburg/Whitman boundaries. VA programs for gifted include regs on nationally normed tests. TJ removes an entire building from inventory so it's real cost includes all additional capacity built and costs of boundary changes that never would have happened if it had reverted to a base school with an academy.

There are nuances to Sec of Ed Qarni 's endeavors. NOVA has had a massive infusion of FARMS and ELs in the Hispanic demographic. A good number of which came to FCPS with limited or interrupted formal education. This is not a stable ex-Cuban, Puerto Rican population. https://bluevirginia.us/2020/11/virginia-secretary-of-education-atif-qarni-to-hold-panel-discussion-on-combatting-racism-and-increased-school-segregation

"Many diasporas, like the Asian community which I belong to, deal with issues of colorism, classism, casteism, and other isms. I have decided to host this panel to address this very important issue and learn from the experts on how members of the Asian community can become allies in this important effort taking place across the Commonwealth of Virginia."

Black people are the indigenous people of America. Not all Blacks arrived on slave ships. That’s a lie that is being told to hide the theft of land from these people. This is documented.

No. Native Americans are the indigenous people of the land of America. Blacks/African Americans and "white" Europeans are the indigenous people to the sovereign nation of the United States of America. Frankly, why we tolerate any other groups in these equality discussions is beyond me. Those aforementioned three groups have a lot to discuss in this country, everyone else should have to operate in the system that those groups ( Native Americans, White, and African Americans) work out.

Actually the first people in America were the Black Pygmies, Black Negritic peoples and Black Australoids similar to the Aboriginal Black people of Australia and parts of Asia, including India. And even though we aren’t taught as much, it’s documented that natives on American soil were actually Black people. Giavanni Verrazzano sailed here in 1524, long before any slave ship arrived and he described the natives he encountered as what we know as Black people. When people are forced into slavery and babies separated from their parents, there is nobody to teach them the history of their lineage. The US government set it up so anyone could pay $5 to be classified as a native and get native benefits, which is part of the reason the look of native Americans has is how you imagine it to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those supporting race-based affirmative action should be ostracized to the same degree as KKK members.

Historically white women are the group who has benefited the most from affirmative action.

And it’s not even close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren't white folks supposed to be listening and absorbing their heretofor unacknowledged privelege as critical race theory dictates?
We FEEL offended and all these white people posts are micro agressions to us minorities.

Oh, yeah, I see. Critical race theory only applies to blacks.
Stop haranguing us white peeps, go plant your BLM, Love is love signs and whatever else you libs do in your free time.

BLM supporters didn’t start this topic nor do I even see the topic until you brought it up. There is a lot talk of Asian superiority over Blacks and hispanics, even to the extent one of the posters believes the spots in AAP occupied by students belonging to these groups which are underrepresented in the program should be occupied by Asian students. After all, white and Asian kids are superior to Black and hispanic students.

White people are funny. Always putting themselves in the middle of problems they created and pretending to be the hero. Tell me, how many white people in history have moved to a non-white country where they didn't know the language and had very little money, were discriminated against and made fun of, and were able to build entire communities of successful families and improved the greater community around them through paying taxes and making schools better? I only hear white oppressors in places like Zimbabwe and South Africa, who didn't struggle, complaining when their privilege rightly gets taken from them. And this is coming soon to an American city near you if it hasn't started happening already.

Lots of white people moved to what is now the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand - some voluntarily, others forcibly, most with very little money. AA's were forced to come to what is now the USA. Pre indoor plumbing, electricity, gas heat, roads. Machine powered ships.

The TJ concept was started during the magnet school inception era- use of capacity and presenting voluntary programs to get people into buildings. Check out the history of Bailey's and Hunters Woods plus other legacies of traditional local racism like the West Potomac/Mount Vernon and Sandburg/Whitman boundaries. VA programs for gifted include regs on nationally normed tests. TJ removes an entire building from inventory so it's real cost includes all additional capacity built and costs of boundary changes that never would have happened if it had reverted to a base school with an academy.

There are nuances to Sec of Ed Qarni 's endeavors. NOVA has had a massive infusion of FARMS and ELs in the Hispanic demographic. A good number of which came to FCPS with limited or interrupted formal education. This is not a stable ex-Cuban, Puerto Rican population. https://bluevirginia.us/2020/11/virginia-secretary-of-education-atif-qarni-to-hold-panel-discussion-on-combatting-racism-and-increased-school-segregation

"Many diasporas, like the Asian community which I belong to, deal with issues of colorism, classism, casteism, and other isms. I have decided to host this panel to address this very important issue and learn from the experts on how members of the Asian community can become allies in this important effort taking place across the Commonwealth of Virginia."

Black people are the indigenous people of America. Not all Blacks arrived on slave ships. That’s a lie that is being told to hide the theft of land from these people. This is documented.

No. Native Americans are the indigenous people of the land of America. Blacks/African Americans and "white" Europeans are the indigenous people to the sovereign nation of the United States of America. Frankly, why we tolerate any other groups in these equality discussions is beyond me. Those aforementioned three groups have a lot to discuss in this country, everyone else should have to operate in the system that those groups ( Native Americans, White, and African Americans) work out.

NP but really interesting thoughts here.
So you must be quite horrified about Kamala Harris becoming VP?

[Anonymous]

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The Asians at TJ for the most part have no interest in being allies with Atif Qarni. They want only to protect and expand their existing privileges. If they don’t get their way, they will do everything in their power to tear down not just TJ, but FCPS. They should be treated as hostile aggressors until they are ready to act in good faith. For many of them, that day will never come, so they must be ostracized just like other racist groups.

What privileges do Asians have comparing with other minorities? Do hard-working and smartness belong to privileges?