NYT article on LCPS high school re: racism

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Anonymous wrote:What do you all think? Is this (racism in LCPS) as rampant as the article portrays? Is FCPS any better? Were the consequences fair to the girl?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html

LCPS is FCPS of 25 years ago. Move further out, live with more white people. So, you live that insulated, kids (unchecked) act like this. Lack of diversity doesn't inoculate a community from racism, just let people live without real consequence. Until that kid blew up her spot. Small prices compared to the number of POC that have been derailed by their public school experiences.

Do you honestly think kids don’t do this kind of stuff in FCPS? How quickly you forget about the disastrous rollout of online learning in April where kids yelled/wrote/sung the n-word in classes. It happened to my son in one of his classes and we can only assume he was targeted given he was the only Black student in the class.

It happens in FCPS but it definitely is worse in Loudoun because LCPS parents especially as you get farther out in Loudoun tend to be more likely to be okay with it. I grew up in Loudoun as the child of a LCPS administrator.

Ok? I grew up in LCPS am Black and now have two children in FCPS. FCPS is no better when it comes to this type of stuff. Before the pandemic, my son couldn’t do a week without hearing the n-word spoken by his fellow students.

+ 1 np

What is the intent? Is it being directed at him? If so, he should stick up for himself, just like white kids have to do at mostly black schools.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you all think? Is this (racism in LCPS) as rampant as the article portrays? Is FCPS any better? Were the consequences fair to the girl?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html

LCPS is FCPS of 25 years ago. Move further out, live with more white people. So, you live that insulated, kids (unchecked) act like this. Lack of diversity doesn't inoculate a community from racism, just let people live without real consequence. Until that kid blew up her spot. Small prices compared to the number of POC that have been derailed by their public school experiences.

Do you honestly think kids don’t do this kind of stuff in FCPS? How quickly you forget about the disastrous rollout of online learning in April where kids yelled/wrote/sung the n-word in classes. It happened to my son in one of his classes and we can only assume he was targeted given he was the only Black student in the class.

It happens in FCPS but it definitely is worse in Loudoun because LCPS parents especially as you get farther out in Loudoun tend to be more likely to be okay with it. I grew up in Loudoun as the child of a LCPS administrator.

Ok? I grew up in LCPS am Black and now have two children in FCPS. FCPS is no better when it comes to this type of stuff. Before the pandemic, my son couldn’t do a week without hearing the n-word spoken by his fellow students.

+ 1 np

What is the intent? Is it being directed at him? If so, he should stick up for himself, just like white kids have to do at mostly black schools.

I’m sure you’re an expert on the white experience in black schools.

My kids look white and are in black schools where...

Everyone is nice to them.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you all think? Is this (racism in LCPS) as rampant as the article portrays? Is FCPS any better? Were the consequences fair to the girl?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html

LCPS is FCPS of 25 years ago. Move further out, live with more white people. So, you live that insulated, kids (unchecked) act like this. Lack of diversity doesn't inoculate a community from racism, just let people live without real consequence. Until that kid blew up her spot. Small prices compared to the number of POC that have been derailed by their public school experiences.

Do you honestly think kids don’t do this kind of stuff in FCPS? How quickly you forget about the disastrous rollout of online learning in April where kids yelled/wrote/sung the n-word in classes. It happened to my son in one of his classes and we can only assume he was targeted given he was the only Black student in the class.

It happens in FCPS but it definitely is worse in Loudoun because LCPS parents especially as you get farther out in Loudoun tend to be more likely to be okay with it. I grew up in Loudoun as the child of a LCPS administrator.

Ok? I grew up in LCPS am Black and now have two children in FCPS. FCPS is no better when it comes to this type of stuff. Before the pandemic, my son couldn’t do a week without hearing the n-word spoken by his fellow students.

+ 1 np

What is the intent? Is it being directed at him? If so, he should stick up for himself, just like white kids have to do at mostly black schools.

Better yet - have him record it and hold on to it until . . .

[Anonymous]

I was harassed both verbally and physically by black kids as a white kid at a high school with a substantial minority enrollment. I didn’t try to keep those kids from graduating or finding jobs, and for sure The New York Times took no interest in what happened at my school. I guess it didn’t fit the narrative that the Times’ wealthy owners (who send their kids to fancy private schools in Manhattan) want to spread about areas like Loudoun that are a lot more diverse than Dalton, Spence or Collegiate.

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Anonymous wrote:I was harassed both verbally and physically by black kids as a white kid at a high school with a substantial minority enrollment. I didn’t try to keep those kids from graduating or finding jobs, and for sure The New York Times took no interest in what happened at my school. I guess it didn’t fit the narrative that the Times’ wealthy owners (who send their kids to fancy private schools in Manhattan) want to spread about areas like Loudoun that are a lot more diverse than Dalton, Spence or Collegiate.

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The hysteria around this is just pathetic.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you all think? Is this (racism in LCPS) as rampant as the article portrays? Is FCPS any better? Were the consequences fair to the girl?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html

LCPS is FCPS of 25 years ago. Move further out, live with more white people. So, you live that insulated, kids (unchecked) act like this. Lack of diversity doesn't inoculate a community from racism, just let people live without real consequence. Until that kid blew up her spot. Small prices compared to the number of POC that have been derailed by their public school experiences.

Do you honestly think kids don’t do this kind of stuff in FCPS? How quickly you forget about the disastrous rollout of online learning in April where kids yelled/wrote/sung the n-word in classes. It happened to my son in one of his classes and we can only assume he was targeted given he was the only Black student in the class.

It happens in FCPS but it definitely is worse in Loudoun because LCPS parents especially as you get farther out in Loudoun tend to be more likely to be okay with it. I grew up in Loudoun as the child of a LCPS administrator.

Ok? I grew up in LCPS am Black and now have two children in FCPS. FCPS is no better when it comes to this type of stuff. Before the pandemic, my son couldn’t do a week without hearing the n-word spoken by his fellow students.

+ 1 np

What is the intent? Is it being directed at him? If so, he should stick up for himself, just like white kids have to do at mostly black schools.

I’m sure you’re an expert on the white experience in black schools.

My kids look white and are in black schools where...

Everyone is nice to them.

Yeah, that has been the experience of not a single white kid going to a predominately black school. You are living in fantasy land if you don't think that ignorance and racism exist in those schools.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you all think? Is this (racism in LCPS) as rampant as the article portrays? Is FCPS any better? Were the consequences fair to the girl?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html

LCPS is FCPS of 25 years ago. Move further out, live with more white people. So, you live that insulated, kids (unchecked) act like this. Lack of diversity doesn't inoculate a community from racism, just let people live without real consequence. Until that kid blew up her spot. Small prices compared to the number of POC that have been derailed by their public school experiences.

Do you honestly think kids don’t do this kind of stuff in FCPS? How quickly you forget about the disastrous rollout of online learning in April where kids yelled/wrote/sung the n-word in classes. It happened to my son in one of his classes and we can only assume he was targeted given he was the only Black student in the class.

It happens in FCPS but it definitely is worse in Loudoun because LCPS parents especially as you get farther out in Loudoun tend to be more likely to be okay with it. I grew up in Loudoun as the child of a LCPS administrator.

Ok? I grew up in LCPS am Black and now have two children in FCPS. FCPS is no better when it comes to this type of stuff. Before the pandemic, my son couldn’t do a week without hearing the n-word spoken by his fellow students.

+ 1 np

What is the intent? Is it being directed at him? If so, he should stick up for himself, just like white kids have to do at mostly black schools.

I’m sure you’re an expert on the white experience in black schools.

My kids look white and are in black schools where...

Everyone is nice to them.

Yeah, that has been the experience of not a single white kid going to a predominately black school. You are living in fantasy land if you don't think that ignorance and racism exist in those schools.

Alrighty. Everybody is bad, and while people are just scapegoats, right? Poor poor white people!

There is ignorance and racism in every school in this country probably, that doesn’t mean your kids can run around saying the n word, it doesn’t mean you’re a persecuted white person, and nothing is going to change your mind but life is not fair and that doesn’t make racism ok.

I think what a lot of the white people in this thread are struggling with is the concept of life being unfair. Did your parents not teach you this concept? Did you think your whiteness could always protect you from reality?

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Anonymous wrote:What do you all think? Is this (racism in LCPS) as rampant as the article portrays? Is FCPS any better? Were the consequences fair to the girl?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html

LCPS is FCPS of 25 years ago. Move further out, live with more white people. So, you live that insulated, kids (unchecked) act like this. Lack of diversity doesn't inoculate a community from racism, just let people live without real consequence. Until that kid blew up her spot. Small prices compared to the number of POC that have been derailed by their public school experiences.

Do you honestly think kids don’t do this kind of stuff in FCPS? How quickly you forget about the disastrous rollout of online learning in April where kids yelled/wrote/sung the n-word in classes. It happened to my son in one of his classes and we can only assume he was targeted given he was the only Black student in the class.

It happens in FCPS but it definitely is worse in Loudoun because LCPS parents especially as you get farther out in Loudoun tend to be more likely to be okay with it. I grew up in Loudoun as the child of a LCPS administrator.

Ok? I grew up in LCPS am Black and now have two children in FCPS. FCPS is no better when it comes to this type of stuff. Before the pandemic, my son couldn’t do a week without hearing the n-word spoken by his fellow students.

+ 1 np

What is the intent? Is it being directed at him? If so, he should stick up for himself, just like white kids have to do at mostly black schools.

I’m sure you’re an expert on the white experience in black schools.

My kids look white and are in black schools where...

Everyone is nice to them.

Yeah, that has been the experience of not a single white kid going to a predominately black school. You are living in fantasy land if you don't think that ignorance and racism exist in those schools.

Alrighty. Everybody is bad, and while people are just scapegoats, right? Poor poor white people!

There is ignorance and racism in every school in this country probably, that doesn’t mean your kids can run around saying the n word, it doesn’t mean you’re a persecuted white person, and nothing is going to change your mind but life is not fair and that doesn’t make racism ok.

I think what a lot of the white people in this thread are struggling with is the concept of life being unfair. Did your parents not teach you this concept? Did you think your whiteness could always protect you from reality?

Sound like you have an axe to grind with white people. Most posters have a problem with those who want to seek revenge against someone because they were triggered by a word and their own bigoted views. You are entitled to your opinion, but you are in the minority, as there are only a couple of morons incessantly posting in support of your view. I know you came here to have your like minded views validated, but it doesn't always go your way, even on DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you all think? Is this (racism in LCPS) as rampant as the article portrays? Is FCPS any better? Were the consequences fair to the girl?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html

LCPS is FCPS of 25 years ago. Move further out, live with more white people. So, you live that insulated, kids (unchecked) act like this. Lack of diversity doesn't inoculate a community from racism, just let people live without real consequence. Until that kid blew up her spot. Small prices compared to the number of POC that have been derailed by their public school experiences.

Do you honestly think kids don’t do this kind of stuff in FCPS? How quickly you forget about the disastrous rollout of online learning in April where kids yelled/wrote/sung the n-word in classes. It happened to my son in one of his classes and we can only assume he was targeted given he was the only Black student in the class.

It happens in FCPS but it definitely is worse in Loudoun because LCPS parents especially as you get farther out in Loudoun tend to be more likely to be okay with it. I grew up in Loudoun as the child of a LCPS administrator.

Ok? I grew up in LCPS am Black and now have two children in FCPS. FCPS is no better when it comes to this type of stuff. Before the pandemic, my son couldn’t do a week without hearing the n-word spoken by his fellow students.

+ 1 np

What is the intent? Is it being directed at him? If so, he should stick up for himself, just like white kids have to do at mostly black schools.

I’m sure you’re an expert on the white experience in black schools.

My kids look white and are in black schools where...

Everyone is nice to them.

Yeah, that has been the experience of not a single white kid going to a predominately black school. You are living in fantasy land if you don't think that ignorance and racism exist in those schools.

Alrighty. Everybody is bad, and while people are just scapegoats, right? Poor poor white people!

There is ignorance and racism in every school in this country probably, that doesn’t mean your kids can run around saying the n word, it doesn’t mean you’re a persecuted white person, and nothing is going to change your mind but life is not fair and that doesn’t make racism ok.

I think what a lot of the white people in this thread are struggling with is the concept of life being unfair. Did your parents not teach you this concept? Did you think your whiteness could always protect you from reality?

I’m sure doubling down on defending vindictive, immature behavior as a valid response to someone’s casual, immature use of the n-word will really improve things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The hysteria around this is just pathetic.

Not really. If it highlights the excesses and arbitrary nature of SJW cancel culture run amok so much the better.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you all think? Is this (racism in LCPS) as rampant as the article portrays? Is FCPS any better? Were the consequences fair to the girl?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html

LCPS is FCPS of 25 years ago. Move further out, live with more white people. So, you live that insulated, kids (unchecked) act like this. Lack of diversity doesn't inoculate a community from racism, just let people live without real consequence. Until that kid blew up her spot. Small prices compared to the number of POC that have been derailed by their public school experiences.

Do you honestly think kids don’t do this kind of stuff in FCPS? How quickly you forget about the disastrous rollout of online learning in April where kids yelled/wrote/sung the n-word in classes. It happened to my son in one of his classes and we can only assume he was targeted given he was the only Black student in the class.

It happens in FCPS but it definitely is worse in Loudoun because LCPS parents especially as you get farther out in Loudoun tend to be more likely to be okay with it. I grew up in Loudoun as the child of a LCPS administrator.

Ok? I grew up in LCPS am Black and now have two children in FCPS. FCPS is no better when it comes to this type of stuff. Before the pandemic, my son couldn’t do a week without hearing the n-word spoken by his fellow students.

+ 1 np

What is the intent? Is it being directed at him? If so, he should stick up for himself, just like white kids have to do at mostly black schools.

I’m sure you’re an expert on the white experience in black schools.

My kids look white and are in black schools where...

Everyone is nice to them.

Yeah, that has been the experience of not a single white kid going to a predominately black school. You are living in fantasy land if you don't think that ignorance and racism exist in those schools.

Alrighty. Everybody is bad, and while people are just scapegoats, right? Poor poor white people!

There is ignorance and racism in every school in this country probably, that doesn’t mean your kids can run around saying the n word, it doesn’t mean you’re a persecuted white person, and nothing is going to change your mind but life is not fair and that doesn’t make racism ok.

I think what a lot of the white people in this thread are struggling with is the concept of life being unfair. Did your parents not teach you this concept? Did you think your whiteness could always protect you from reality?

Sound like you have an axe to grind with white people. Most posters have a problem with those who want to seek revenge against someone because they were triggered by a word and their own bigoted views. You are entitled to your opinion, but you are in the minority, as there are only a couple of morons incessantly posting in support of your view. I know you came here to have your like minded views validated, but it doesn't always go your way, even on DCUM.

You know, if you think that the n word is “just a word” I don’t think you’re in the majority. I think the rest of us know better and all the harping in the world isn’t going to change that. Sorry. 😢

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What do you all think? Is this (racism in LCPS) as rampant as the article portrays? Is FCPS any better? Were the consequences fair to the girl?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html

LCPS is FCPS of 25 years ago. Move further out, live with more white people. So, you live that insulated, kids (unchecked) act like this. Lack of diversity doesn't inoculate a community from racism, just let people live without real consequence. Until that kid blew up her spot. Small prices compared to the number of POC that have been derailed by their public school experiences.

Do you honestly think kids don’t do this kind of stuff in FCPS? How quickly you forget about the disastrous rollout of online learning in April where kids yelled/wrote/sung the n-word in classes. It happened to my son in one of his classes and we can only assume he was targeted given he was the only Black student in the class.

It happens in FCPS but it definitely is worse in Loudoun because LCPS parents especially as you get farther out in Loudoun tend to be more likely to be okay with it. I grew up in Loudoun as the child of a LCPS administrator.

Ok? I grew up in LCPS am Black and now have two children in FCPS. FCPS is no better when it comes to this type of stuff. Before the pandemic, my son couldn’t do a week without hearing the n-word spoken by his fellow students.

+ 1 np

What is the intent? Is it being directed at him? If so, he should stick up for himself, just like white kids have to do at mostly black schools.

I’m sure you’re an expert on the white experience in black schools.

My kids look white and are in black schools where...

Everyone is nice to them.

Yeah, that has been the experience of not a single white kid going to a predominately black school. You are living in fantasy land if you don't think that ignorance and racism exist in those schools.

Alrighty. Everybody is bad, and while people are just scapegoats, right? Poor poor white people!

There is ignorance and racism in every school in this country probably, that doesn’t mean your kids can run around saying the n word, it doesn’t mean you’re a persecuted white person, and nothing is going to change your mind but life is not fair and that doesn’t make racism ok.

I think what a lot of the white people in this thread are struggling with is the concept of life being unfair. Did your parents not teach you this concept? Did you think your whiteness could always protect you from reality?

NP here- I think what you're hearing/seeing is fear. People are realizing that a girl, who made a mistake at a young age when many, many kids make mistakes is paying for in a spectacularly public and life-altering manner. That her accomplishments, character, and work ethic are essentially meaningless at this point in her life, because of this one mistake. They are confusing it with the injustice...but injustice is the systemic racism and having the deck stacked against you...and the tragedies of lives and potential lost because those in power made decisions based on skin color. White parents are getting a tiny taste of the fear that black parents must regularly experience. This would be an opportunity to empathize with one another vs. upholding or attacking the characters of two young people who are a product of a society that we created.

[Anonymous]

Life altering!? She withdrew from UT. That’s IT!!

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Anonymous wrote:What do you all think? Is this (racism in LCPS) as rampant as the article portrays? Is FCPS any better? Were the consequences fair to the girl?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html

LCPS is FCPS of 25 years ago. Move further out, live with more white people. So, you live that insulated, kids (unchecked) act like this. Lack of diversity doesn't inoculate a community from racism, just let people live without real consequence. Until that kid blew up her spot. Small prices compared to the number of POC that have been derailed by their public school experiences.

Do you honestly think kids don’t do this kind of stuff in FCPS? How quickly you forget about the disastrous rollout of online learning in April where kids yelled/wrote/sung the n-word in classes. It happened to my son in one of his classes and we can only assume he was targeted given he was the only Black student in the class.

It happens in FCPS but it definitely is worse in Loudoun because LCPS parents especially as you get farther out in Loudoun tend to be more likely to be okay with it. I grew up in Loudoun as the child of a LCPS administrator.

Ok? I grew up in LCPS am Black and now have two children in FCPS. FCPS is no better when it comes to this type of stuff. Before the pandemic, my son couldn’t do a week without hearing the n-word spoken by his fellow students.

+ 1 np

What is the intent? Is it being directed at him? If so, he should stick up for himself, just like white kids have to do at mostly black schools.

I’m sure you’re an expert on the white experience in black schools.

My kids look white and are in black schools where...

Everyone is nice to them.

Yeah, that has been the experience of not a single white kid going to a predominately black school. You are living in fantasy land if you don't think that ignorance and racism exist in those schools.

Alrighty. Everybody is bad, and while people are just scapegoats, right? Poor poor white people!

There is ignorance and racism in every school in this country probably, that doesn’t mean your kids can run around saying the n word, it doesn’t mean you’re a persecuted white person, and nothing is going to change your mind but life is not fair and that doesn’t make racism ok.

I think what a lot of the white people in this thread are struggling with is the concept of life being unfair. Did your parents not teach you this concept? Did you think your whiteness could always protect you from reality?

Sound like you have an axe to grind with white people. Most posters have a problem with those who want to seek revenge against someone because they were triggered by a word and their own bigoted views. You are entitled to your opinion, but you are in the minority, as there are only a couple of morons incessantly posting in support of your view. I know you came here to have your like minded views validated, but it doesn't always go your way, even on DCUM.

You know, if you think that the n word is “just a word” I don’t think you’re in the majority. I think the rest of us know better and all the harping in the world isn’t going to change that. Sorry. 😢

If you think this girl is a racist and bigot based on her use of the word in the video, I don't think you are in the majority either.