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my point is no UMC families want their kids going to lower performing schools.  There is no racial animosity it is strictly performance based.     [/quote]

First, it's factually incorrect that there are no upper-middle-class families who want their kids going to schools with lots of poor kids. There definitely are such families. In fact, there may be many such families, depending on your definition of "upper-middle-class".

Second, the existence of class bias does not disprove the existence of race bias. It's possible to be prejudiced against poor people AND brown people. Especially if you believe, as many people do seem to believe, that brown people are poor people (and, conversely, that poor people are brown people).

It seems to me that a lot of denial of the continued existence of racism comes from people's desire to not be bad people. In 2018, most of us know that racists are bad people. And we don't to be bad people. So therefore, when we do stuff, it must not be racist. But "racism exists" =/= "you are a bad person", anymore than "water freezes at 32 degrees F" = "people who wear mittens are fools". The existence of racism is a fact, that's all. It's how you deal with that fact that makes you a good person, or a bad one.[/quote]

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