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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Do tell, how is anti-racism racism? I’d love your specific answer, especially give that race is a primary variable in student performance even when controlled for SES. Poverty is not a proxy for race. [b]Black[/b] men raised in wealthy families are less likely than their white wealthy male peers to graduate from college. [b]Black[/b] children of college graduates are less like than their white peers to graduate from college. Tests are also disproportionately disadvantageous to [b]black[/b] students, particularly black girls. Race does matter. And we see this not just in educational outcomes but in areas like medicine, too. Why does that bother you? Until we fix root issues of racism and bias, we’ll never shake inequality and racism and hold all students back - and our society and economy back. Though, obviously, some people like the status quo ....[/quote]

NP.  Because my Asian grandmother, born in a sugar cane shack without running water or toilet, wasn't allowed to attend schools.  Yet all three of her children went to college.  I served with Latino's with similar stories.  From our perspective, Whites are not the only racists.[/quote]

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks

Asian activists are starting to speak up about how the myth of the model minority hurts working class Asians and Asian American children with special needs. Some are even recognizing that it is used by racists to prevent solidarity between AS, AA, and other people of color. [/quote]

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