“We need to preserve diversity and mitigate the projected whitening of the feeder pattern”
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
Read what you wrote. What are you saying would pull down schools that are actually functioning? How am I supposed to infer you mean anything other than east of the river kids attending them? You got angry when DCPS acknowledged that segregation is happening, and is getting worse. The segregation is the toxic racial politics, not talking about it. |
Anonymous
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This is where Carville gets it right. https://www.vox.com/22338417/james-carville-democratic-party-biden-100-days
The messaging on important racial issues is drowned out by borderline shaming jargon like “be less white” or “mitigating the projected whiteness”. The republicans are great and messaging and picking this stuff up, broadcasting it via Fox and boom now the Dems are out of power. The same with this school reorganization business. Stop using divide jargon. You’re turning people off from an important message. Also, before just enacting knee-jerk policy try and base it on projected outcomes and not on a reaction to racial soundbites from social justice warriors. |
Anonymous
I think that poster was talking about the idea of ending IB schools altogether. |
Anonymous
YES. Stop making policy by Twitter. You’re not helping anyone, least of all the black kids in DC who are being failed. |
Anonymous
I totally disagree that the segregation (based on people attending their IB school) is the toxic issue. The toxic issue is - why are schools in Ward 7 and 8 so very bad that parents are willing to get their kids literally across town on multiple buses and trains to Ward 3? Why do we assume that majority black institutions can just fail and we’ll blame the majority white institutions? |
Anonymous
No one is proposing school reorganization, no one is enacting knee jerk policy. Stop focusing on “racial sound bites” and join the conversation (if you even live here). |
Anonymous
It’s hard to ignore “racial soundbites” when that’s a mainstay of the “conversation.” |
Anonymous
That's fine, but you could also help by just choosing not to be offended by the form the important message is taking and focusing instead on the message. |
Anonymous
That’s not how people work. You can’t expect to have a culture where any perceived wrong speech can get you cancelled, and they expect people to ignore phrases like “mitigate whitening.” Nobody likes to be judged by their immutable charactetistics like race or gender. |
Anonymous
Hi, I live here and probably pay more in taxes than you do. I’ve been here since Kim’s Karate was a thing, Hechinger’s was actual hardware store and People’s drugs were all over town and not called CVS. I’ve seen crack heads in the 90’s. I met Mayor Barry. I listened to Rare Essence and Backyard since I was 12. You, my friend, are probably an out of towner. I am also a realist and am frustrated with how intractable poverty is in DC. You can’t blame everything on the “centering of whiteness”. You also need sound policy. We don’t have great policy makers. |
Anonymous
Hechts, Jhoon Rhee, Hahn Shoes. Yes, intractable poverty is a problem. But what everyone in this discussion is reacting to is DCPS calling out that more and more white people choosing only Wilson schools is also a problem. This whole thread is people trying to deflect from that issue, often in really offensive ways. |
Anonymous
Many people across DC are focused on Wilson or bust, which is because the alternatives are limited. More and more white people have been choosing DC and DCPS. That, combined with the above, creates the problem. |
Anonymous
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According to Ibram Kendi, only White people can be racist. At the same time, Kendi and other proponents of "critical race theory" are pushing for what he calls "anti-racist" policies. Therefore, when applying logic to critical race theory's own precepts, the goal of the movement is to be "anti-white."
As you can see, it really should surprise no one when DCPS announces one of its goals is to reduce the "whitening" of a community. If you're going to be honest about importing critical race theory into your public policy, this is what you get. The Cure for the legacy of structural racism in this country, according to this movement, is just more racism, but directed in the opposite direction. Instead of "anti-racism" (as irrevocably defined by Kendi), we should really be promoting policies based on Fairness, Equality, and lifting people up. I think we will get there, but it's going to be hard to reverse the current "anti-racist" trend. |
Anonymous
In fact, that's exactly what's going on. Here's a thought experiment for you: how would you feel if a school system said they wanted to "mitigate the darkening" of the kids in the school feeder pattern? Is that upsetting? Does that sound racist to you? If so, then you realize that a school system telling parents it wants to "mitigate" whiteness is just as offensive. It's not just a matter of poor word choice; it's the ideological worldview that word choice represents. It's divisive and does nothing to solve the larger systemic problems at issue here. |