N word at Whitman

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Anonymous wrote:If anyone wants to get desensitized by the use of the N-word all you have to do is stop into the McDonalds across the street from Blair around 3pm. One can just sit in a middle table, look around and watch blacks using it, Hispanics using it, Asian's using it, and yes, whites using it. It's so ingrained in speech patterns that it replaces "umm" and "like" in their normal dialog.

I think that McDonalds speaks more about the kids at Blair than ingrained speech patterns. That McDonald’s actually is what convinced us not to move inbounds for Blair. We were considering Blair and stopped at the location by chance and were sitting in it when school let out. We decided to compromise on house size and quality and move to BCC and are completely happy with that decision.

What a perfect anecdote to describe why neighborhoods are still segregated. Once while house hunting, you ran into people who weren't like you, and you ran screaming for the whiteopia of Bethesda. Oh well, enjoy your mortgage.

As did you and many others on this board. Hypocrite.

?? I was defending Blair because it's my neighborhood. Nothing the least bit hypocritical about it.

I would think that the hypocrisy being pointed out is black people bitch at white people for wanting to live around other white people while black people notriously seek out black neighborhoods too. What really is at issue is the power dynamic at hand because black people lose leverage when they seek out white neighborhoods due to better amenities and overall being nicer causing further resource disparities. If white people flocked to the few nicer black neighborhoods the leverage would flip. Problem is that isn’t what happens, whites typically flock to poorer black neighborhoods causing displacement causing people to perpetually feel behind the 8ball.

All of that said it isn’t a white or black thing as much as a rich vs poor thing even granting that black people have been kept poor. Until the wealth gap is erased the class and achievement gap will not be erased. Basic problem being that there is simply no mechanism in democratic capitalism that will facilitate an institutional wealth transfer needed to make up the 500 year head start white people took from black, Indian and Mexican people (why it was so easy to take should be looked at as well if one would hope to avoid future exploitation). Who on the rich side who controls the power in their right mind would vote for that at scale? There will continue to be policies that prop up some at the individual level and there will always be white poor and neglected individuals who think white privilege is a myth, but nothing that will come close to affecting systemic change at a national scale . But with gerrymandering, money, Republican tax policy for generational wealth transfer and targeted policing of targeted laws the real power structures will remain for the foreseeable future and mostly minority communities will continue to be poor because most minorities are relatively poor. And poor people typically on average encounter poor results. Always have and always will

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There used to be a McDonald's across from B-CC, didn't there? Probably the B-CC kids at that McDonald's after school didn't talk about integration by parts and the construction of masculinity in Antony and Cleopatra. But maybe they did, I don't know.

I grew up going to the McDonald’s across from BCC, it had very little in common with the one at 4 corners aside from the Golden Arches. I get being turned off of an area if one was to just wander in on a random day expecting a woodmore vibe but receiving a more oak ridge or Quebec Terrace scene. People forget the huge amount of uneducated poverty that feeds and neighbors that area and it can be offputting for those not poor and uneducated. Just saying

A McDonald's in Bethesda is nicer, with a better clientele, than a McDonald's in Four Corners. Good to know.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There used to be a McDonald's across from B-CC, didn't there? Probably the B-CC kids at that McDonald's after school didn't talk about integration by parts and the construction of masculinity in Antony and Cleopatra. But maybe they did, I don't know.

I grew up going to the McDonald’s across from BCC, it had very little in common with the one at 4 corners aside from the Golden Arches. I get being turned off of an area if one was to just wander in on a random day expecting a woodmore vibe but receiving a more oak ridge or Quebec Terrace scene. People forget the huge amount of uneducated poverty that feeds and neighbors that area and it can be offputting for those not poor and uneducated. Just saying

A McDonald's in Bethesda is nicer, with a better clientele, than a McDonald's in Four Corners. Good to know.

Everybody knows that

[Anonymous]

Man, some of you people just cannot look down on everything that isn't like you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Man, some of you people just cannot look down on everything that isn't like you.

Life has rankings, sports have rankings, neighborhoods have rankings, kids have rankings. One doesn’t get to acknowledge the game and then complain it isn’t fair and then pretend like they didn’t care and dismiss the results just because. Even the people in silver spring who pretend not to care redo their kitchens to impress their friends and buy Mercedes to appear to place higher than they really do. Even basic people like to floss even if it just a facade.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If anyone wants to get desensitized by the use of the N-word all you have to do is stop into the McDonalds across the street from Blair around 3pm. One can just sit in a middle table, look around and watch blacks using it, Hispanics using it, Asian's using it, and yes, whites using it. It's so ingrained in speech patterns that it replaces "umm" and "like" in their normal dialog.

I think that McDonalds speaks more about the kids at Blair than ingrained speech patterns. That McDonald’s actually is what convinced us not to move inbounds for Blair. We were considering Blair and stopped at the location by chance and were sitting in it when school let out. We decided to compromise on house size and quality and move to BCC and are completely happy with that decision.

What a perfect anecdote to describe why neighborhoods are still segregated. Once while house hunting, you ran into people who weren't like you, and you ran screaming for the whiteopia of Bethesda. Oh well, enjoy your mortgage.

As did you and many others on this board. Hypocrite.

?? I was defending Blair because it's my neighborhood. Nothing the least bit hypocritical about it.

I would think that the hypocrisy being pointed out is black people bitch at white people for wanting to live around other white people while black people notriously seek out black neighborhoods too. What really is at issue is the power dynamic at hand because black people lose leverage when they seek out white neighborhoods due to better amenities and overall being nicer causing further resource disparities. If white people flocked to the few nicer black neighborhoods the leverage would flip. Problem is that isn’t what happens, whites typically flock to poorer black neighborhoods causing displacement causing people to perpetually feel behind the 8ball.

All of that said it isn’t a white or black thing as much as a rich vs poor thing even granting that black people have been kept poor. Until the wealth gap is erased the class and achievement gap will not be erased. Basic problem being that there is simply no mechanism in democratic capitalism that will facilitate an institutional wealth transfer needed to make up the 500 year head start white people took from black, Indian and Mexican people (why it was so easy to take should be looked at as well if one would hope to avoid future exploitation). Who on the rich side who controls the power in their right mind would vote for that at scale? There will continue to be policies that prop up some at the individual level and there will always be white poor and neglected individuals who think white privilege is a myth, but nothing that will come close to affecting systemic change at a national scale . But with gerrymandering, money, Republican tax policy for generational wealth transfer and targeted policing of targeted laws the real power structures will remain for the foreseeable future and mostly minority communities will continue to be poor because most minorities are relatively poor. And poor people typically on average encounter poor results. Always have and always will

thx for the Opinion Piece. HuffPo is always hiring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man, some of you people just cannot look down on everything that isn't like you.

Life has rankings, sports have rankings, neighborhoods have rankings, kids have rankings. One doesn’t get to acknowledge the game and then complain it isn’t fair and then pretend like they didn’t care and dismiss the results just because. Even the people in silver spring who pretend not to care redo their kitchens to impress their friends and buy Mercedes to appear to place higher than they really do. Even basic people like to floss even if it just a facade.

Which game are you referring to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If anyone wants to get desensitized by the use of the N-word all you have to do is stop into the McDonalds across the street from Blair around 3pm. One can just sit in a middle table, look around and watch blacks using it, Hispanics using it, Asian's using it, and yes, whites using it. It's so ingrained in speech patterns that it replaces "umm" and "like" in their normal dialog.

This was my post and I apologize that it didn't come out as I intended. The point I was trying to make is that "old people" are the ones that get offended by the word because they don't always understand it. Young people of every race and color use it all the time in a multi-cultural setting such as Blair. Maybe not AT Blair but as soon as they are released and can let their hair down they do. BTW, it's not just the "Quebec Terrace kids" who are talking like that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man, some of you people just cannot look down on everything that isn't like you.

Life has rankings, sports have rankings, neighborhoods have rankings, kids have rankings. One doesn’t get to acknowledge the game and then complain it isn’t fair and then pretend like they didn’t care and dismiss the results just because. Even the people in silver spring who pretend not to care redo their kitchens to impress their friends and buy Mercedes to appear to place higher than they really do. Even basic people like to floss even if it just a facade.

Which game are you referring to?

Life and resource consumption

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If anyone wants to get desensitized by the use of the N-word all you have to do is stop into the McDonalds across the street from Blair around 3pm. One can just sit in a middle table, look around and watch blacks using it, Hispanics using it, Asian's using it, and yes, whites using it. It's so ingrained in speech patterns that it replaces "umm" and "like" in their normal dialog.

I think that McDonalds speaks more about the kids at Blair than ingrained speech patterns. That McDonald’s actually is what convinced us not to move inbounds for Blair. We were considering Blair and stopped at the location by chance and were sitting in it when school let out. We decided to compromise on house size and quality and move to BCC and are completely happy with that decision.

What a perfect anecdote to describe why neighborhoods are still segregated. Once while house hunting, you ran into people who weren't like you, and you ran screaming for the whiteopia of Bethesda. Oh well, enjoy your mortgage.

As did you and many others on this board. Hypocrite.

?? I was defending Blair because it's my neighborhood. Nothing the least bit hypocritical about it.

I would think that the hypocrisy being pointed out is black people bitch at white people for wanting to live around other white people while black people notriously seek out black neighborhoods too. What really is at issue is the power dynamic at hand because black people lose leverage when they seek out white neighborhoods due to better amenities and overall being nicer causing further resource disparities. If white people flocked to the few nicer black neighborhoods the leverage would flip. Problem is that isn’t what happens, whites typically flock to poorer black neighborhoods causing displacement causing people to perpetually feel behind the 8ball.

All of that said it isn’t a white or black thing as much as a rich vs poor thing even granting that black people have been kept poor. Until the wealth gap is erased the class and achievement gap will not be erased. Basic problem being that there is simply no mechanism in democratic capitalism that will facilitate an institutional wealth transfer needed to make up the 500 year head start white people took from black, Indian and Mexican people (why it was so easy to take should be looked at as well if one would hope to avoid future exploitation). Who on the rich side who controls the power in their right mind would vote for that at scale? There will continue to be policies that prop up some at the individual level and there will always be white poor and neglected individuals who think white privilege is a myth, but nothing that will come close to affecting systemic change at a national scale . But with gerrymandering, money, Republican tax policy for generational wealth transfer and targeted policing of targeted laws the real power structures will remain for the foreseeable future and mostly minority communities will continue to be poor because most minorities are relatively poor. And poor people typically on average encounter poor results. Always have and always will

thx for the Opinion Piece. HuffPo is always hiring.

What part of that was opinion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man, some of you people just cannot look down on everything that isn't like you.

Life has rankings, sports have rankings, neighborhoods have rankings, kids have rankings. One doesn’t get to acknowledge the game and then complain it isn’t fair and then pretend like they didn’t care and dismiss the results just because. Even the people in silver spring who pretend not to care redo their kitchens to impress their friends and buy Mercedes to appear to place higher than they really do. Even basic people like to floss even if it just a facade.

WTF? No, of all the things you listed, only sports have rankings. And only sad, insecure people care when rankings are erroneously assigned to their neighborhoods and their own children. Though I was nearly persuaded by your impressive logic that "even people in Silver Spring redo their kitchens."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man, some of you people just cannot look down on everything that isn't like you.

Life has rankings, sports have rankings, neighborhoods have rankings, kids have rankings. One doesn’t get to acknowledge the game and then complain it isn’t fair and then pretend like they didn’t care and dismiss the results just because. Even the people in silver spring who pretend not to care redo their kitchens to impress their friends and buy Mercedes to appear to place higher than they really do. Even basic people like to floss even if it just a facade.

WTF? No, of all the things you listed, only sports have rankings. And only sad, insecure people care when rankings are erroneously assigned to their neighborhoods and their own children. Though I was nearly persuaded by your impressive logic that "even people in Silver Spring redo their kitchens."

It's true! They do! I know somebody who did!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So now the “n” word is a serious offense.

I’d think serious was when they find a gun. Or a bomb threat.

So some kids said N&$$@?

How does anyone survive in the day to day world.

Go to school on the East side. This stuff is nothing.

Not to point out the obvious but you could make the same comment about anything. What, you are being harassed at work and HR is involved, how will they handle when the next violence threat if they are spending time making sure all people are treated equally and it’s a respectful work environment. Or say, violence at the work place, what about people living in the middle of a cilvil war in x country, those are real problems.

I would expect the school has a plan for bomb and gun threats. At my job there is active shooter training and evacuation drills etc. I also don’t think the public safety officials will be using racially offensive terms to evacuate the building so in the moment we won’t be choosing between having something use terms to offend me and evacuate me from the building. You are making it an either or situation when I would argue you can have both. Also, why should one population not have to choose between being treated respectfully and having resources used on preparing for bomb/gun threats while another group in the same location has to pick?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some little whelps called someone a name but instead of punishing just the name callers seems the whole school and parents have been sent to sensitivity training. Two updates from the principle declaring how the student are being constantly told how bad this is in less than 12 hours.

I think they know its bad. Thats why the two obnoxious ones used it. This overkill is absurd... especially the bit about demanding the kids dont use "gender-charged" words.

What the heck are gender charged words???

Good grief...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_language

https://www.thoughtco.com/snarl-words-and-purr-words-1692796

What do you think they said that could be construed as gender charged or sexuality charged words?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man, some of you people just cannot look down on everything that isn't like you.

Life has rankings, sports have rankings, neighborhoods have rankings, kids have rankings. One doesn’t get to acknowledge the game and then complain it isn’t fair and then pretend like they didn’t care and dismiss the results just because. Even the people in silver spring who pretend not to care redo their kitchens to impress their friends and buy Mercedes to appear to place higher than they really do. Even basic people like to floss even if it just a facade.

WTF? No, of all the things you listed, only sports have rankings. And only sad, insecure people care when rankings are erroneously assigned to their neighborhoods and their own children. Though I was nearly persuaded by your impressive logic that "even people in Silver Spring redo their kitchens."

It's true! They do! I know somebody who did!

This comment made my day. Thanks, PP.