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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My non-Black kid graduated from WJ in 2023. There were/are very few Black families there, but after many long years in various MCPS schools, we didn't feel as if this school was particularly bad in terms of racism, or any of the isms. I have another kid at BCC high school now, and I feel as if there are slightly more issues in that cluster than the WJ one. Not anti-Black, usually, but anti-Semitic stuff. And the incidents we heard about at WJ were also usually about swastikas on desks.

I was the only person of my ethnicity in school during much of my childhood, OP. The term microaggression hadn't been invented, and people had a lot of comments and questions, but hardly any were ill-intentioned. I'm sure today they'd be classified as microaggressions, though. So given my experience, I tend to think minorities should grow a thick skin and not limit themselves in their search for the best educational experience, or any experience. It's only by having minorities reach the top of their professions and being highly visible to the world that attitudes can change. And it's harder to reach the top if minority populations limit themselves because of the fear of perceived racism.
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Oh wow, this post is quite a feat of internalized racism. [/quote]

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