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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Even if they did not create the system they may perpetuate it in various ways, even if unintentional.  I mean, if implicit bias is a real thing, why can’t unintentional perpetuation of systemic racism be one also?  This is nothing that hasn’t already been found in other work (see Dream Hoarders for popular discussion of some of this).[/quote]

Assuming that you are correct, what the expected solution is supposed to be. Do the authors expect people to no longer move to neighborhoods with good schools? Do they want posters to stop talking about their neighborhood schools? [b]Should we oppose charters which are among the most diverse schools in the city because they take attention from some neighborhood schools?[/b] The posters here -- black, white, Hispanic, and other -- are acting in perfectly normal and natural ways. And, it's not like posters here are not aware of this. Racism is talked about constantly. Posters West of the Park complain that their schools are crowded and it is immediately attacked as an attempt to limit black access to the schools. If anyone suggests that Shepherd might better feed to middle and high schools that are geographically closer to it, they will be attacked for attempting to prevent black students from attending Deal and Wilson. This stuff gets talked about every day. Nobody here is oblivious to it.

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