NPR makes sure no white kids set foot in Dunbar

[Anonymous]

How dare whites say for blacks to stop with the racism, as your words are the policy for us to follow. I don't believe ALL whites are racists as that would be to easy to categorize but I do believe there's a clueless curve of learning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What's being missed here is that the NPR story also spoke of how, decades ago, African Americans valued educational achievement and sought out opportunities like Dunbar. Nowadays the culture has changed to where too many either just take education for granted or don't value it at all.

Don't be presumptious, stereotypical, and ignorant by painting a broad brush. Do you seriously think that all AA's don't value education? You couldn't be further from the truth. There are many whites who don't value education. Does that mean that ALL whites don't value education? NO! Just like whites, African Americans are not a monolithic group. There is a variety of lifestyles, educational levels, socio-economic statuses, religions, etc. that make up the African American community. You clearly don't know too many AA's because if you did, then you will know that many AA families place a high priority on education.

I swear I've encountered many racists in DC than I have in the south. It seems like every week I have to diffuse or extinguish the racist fire that comes out of people's mouths. However, everyone here is suppose to be tolerant and open-minded.

DC's new gentrifiers are NOT your northern city dwellers who are more accustomed to living alongside people of different, cultures, classes and colors, and who may not always like "others" but have learned to accept the differences. Many of DC's gentrifiers are Midwesterners who grew up around people who looked just like them and who like the "idea" of city life, but prefer a more sanitized/homogenous version of it. "Others" make them uncomfortable and in their minds, if the "others" would just leave, the city would be a more perfect place. I'm generalizing here of course, but I would bet that's the underlying sentiment for many.

Oh, so now we're stereotyping Midwesterners? What a bunch of bullshit. Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Cleveland - all cities with diverse populations. ENOUGH with the ignorant generalizations, people. 90% of the responses on this thread typify the douchebaggery I encounter in DC every day from people of every possible background. Smug know it all-ism is what's wrong with DC - never mind racism.

[Anonymous]

http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2013-08-20/dcs-dunbar-high-americas-first-black-public-high-school

I'm listening to this on the Kojo Nnamdi show right now and enjoying hearing about the history of Dunbar. Such a shame that OP can only hear the words "black" high school and can't appreciate the historical record. I'd forgotten how well-regarded Dunbar was in the past in part because the teachers couldn't get jobs in white schools - so Dunbar got excellent teachers.

[Anonymous]

Let's see during the same time Dunbar was touted as a school for coloreds, we had all-white high schools too. Now, after all of those years are those high-schools being recognized and have their esteemed alum prominantly displayed in the hallways?

[Anonymous]

just catching up on this thread and it is painful!

The new Dunbar building is a great achievement and I hope it is symbolic of a great future that would make us all proud, like the old Dunbar of legend, and not remind us of prison, like the Dunbar of recent past.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's see during the same time Dunbar was touted as a school for coloreds, we had all-white high schools too. Now, after all of those years are those high-schools being recognized and have their esteemed alum prominantly displayed in the hallways?

hummmm, let's see.... .............Dunbar existed as an all black school only because it was the only place black kids could go to HS since they were not accepted by the other HS. it seems reasonable to me that the school celebrates the fact that its alumni managed to get a good education and excel in life notwithstanding segregation. those all white HS were all white only because they did not accept kids unless they were white, it does not sound to me like a part of their history they should be proud of and celebrate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's see during the same time Dunbar was touted as a school for coloreds, we had all-white high schools too. Now, after all of those years are those high-schools being recognized and have their esteemed alum prominantly displayed in the hallways?

hummmm, let's see.... .............Dunbar existed as an all black school only because it was the only place black kids could go to HS since they were not accepted by the other HS. it seems reasonable to me that the school celebrates the fact that its alumni managed to get a good education and excel in life notwithstanding segregation. those all white HS were all white only because they did not accept kids unless they were white, it does not sound to me like a part of their history they should be proud of and celebrate

Thank you! I think the laziest argument that people can make is "what if white people did it". Context is important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How dare whites say for blacks to stop with the racism, as your words are the policy for us to follow. I don't believe ALL whites are racists as that would be to easy to categorize but I do believe there's a clueless curve of learning.

"your words are the policy for us to follow"???

WHAAAAT?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's see during the same time Dunbar was touted as a school for coloreds, we had all-white high schools too. Now, after all of those years are those high-schools being recognized and have their esteemed alum prominantly displayed in the hallways?

Oh my god!!!! Black people get everything!!! They got to be oppressed and struggle to get a good education and feel proud of themselves for succeeding at Dunbar which was a great school because the stellar faculty couldn't get jobs at universities while all those poor White people had to just deal with the status quo and being able to drink at whatever goddamned drinking fountain they wanted to, going to any damn school and university they wanted to and living in any goddamned neighborhood they wanted to!!!!! And they don't even get a friggin' plaque for it.

It's just so unfair to to celebrate people who succeeded despite oppression when the people who supported (or at least didn't oppose) the oppression are condemned to be forgotten!!

Really, pp, if you're a troll, you should be ashamed of yourself for wasting your time like this. And if you're not a troll, you should be ashamed of yourself for being so damn stupid.

[Anonymous]

And folks tell me that there is no racism in liberal, progressive cities like DC.....HA! I'm still on the search of locating both whites and blacks in DC who aren't racists. How does an article about the history of Dunbar turn into a racists smackdown?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's see during the same time Dunbar was touted as a school for coloreds, we had all-white high schools too. Now, after all of those years are those high-schools being recognized and have their esteemed alum prominantly displayed in the hallways?

Oh my god!!!! Black people get everything!!! They got to be oppressed and struggle to get a good education and feel proud of themselves for succeeding at Dunbar which was a great school because the stellar faculty couldn't get jobs at universities while all those poor White people had to just deal with the status quo and being able to drink at whatever goddamned drinking fountain they wanted to, going to any damn school and university they wanted to and living in any goddamned neighborhood they wanted to!!!!! And they don't even get a friggin' plaque for it.

It's just so unfair to to celebrate people who succeeded despite oppression when the people who supported (or at least didn't oppose) the oppression are condemned to be forgotten!!

Really, pp, if you're a troll, you should be ashamed of yourself for wasting your time like this. And if you're not a troll, you should be ashamed of yourself for being so damn stupid.

The point being that, beginning well over a century ago at Dunbar, people seized opportunity, succeeded and thrived despite oppression, during a time when adversities of racism, segregation and closed doors were vastly greater than they are today.

Nowadays, as demonstrated by this thread, it's evidently all about ignoring opportunity and blaming others rather than taking charge of one's destiny and seizing the opportunities that exist - opportunities far greater even than what were available to our forebears at Dunbar.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, tell it to all those lazy freeloaders at Banneker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's see during the same time Dunbar was touted as a school for coloreds, we had all-white high schools too. Now, after all of those years are those high-schools being recognized and have their esteemed alum prominantly displayed in the hallways?

Oh my god!!!! Black people get everything!!! They got to be oppressed and struggle to get a good education and feel proud of themselves for succeeding at Dunbar which was a great school because the stellar faculty couldn't get jobs at universities while all those poor White people had to just deal with the status quo and being able to drink at whatever goddamned drinking fountain they wanted to, going to any damn school and university they wanted to and living in any goddamned neighborhood they wanted to!!!!! And they don't even get a friggin' plaque for it.

It's just so unfair to to celebrate people who succeeded despite oppression when the people who supported (or at least didn't oppose) the oppression are condemned to be forgotten!!

Really, pp, if you're a troll, you should be ashamed of yourself for wasting your time like this. And if you're not a troll, you should be ashamed of yourself for being so damn stupid.

The point being that, beginning well over a century ago at Dunbar, people seized opportunity, succeeded and thrived despite oppression, during a time when adversities of racism, segregation and closed doors were vastly greater than they are today.

Nowadays, as demonstrated by this thread, it's evidently all about ignoring opportunity and blaming others rather than taking charge of one's destiny and seizing the opportunities that exist - opportunities far greater even than what were available to our forebears at Dunbar.

wow - and all those white students the pp lamented didn't receive plaques - every friggin' one of them was an Einstein with four degrees. None of them ever blamed anyone else or ignored opportunities? Sounds to me like you're doing a lot of whining and blaming someone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, tell it to all those lazy freeloaders at Banneker.

Nice try, but no dice. Banneker represents just 394 cherry-picked high students out of over ten thousand in the system - 3.5%, barely a statistical blip. What about the rest? Have a clever explanation for that, or are you just going to cop out and blame it on poverty and racism again?

[Anonymous]

It is funny that people only remember the prison looking Dunbar and prior to that what did the truly old Dunbar look like.

All the talk is about Dunbar, what is the chatter about Cardozo didn't they get a new building too?