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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not surprising at the lack of sensitivity given how segregated the W's are.[/quote]

Oh for heaven's sake. The wealthy/western/white schools are certainly segregated economically. But even the whitest of the schools, Whitman, is only 2/3 white. Walter Johnson and Churchill are about half white, and Wootton is less than half white. If you only went by what you read on DCUM, you'd think that Whitman was basically like Mountain Brook HS. Now that's a segregated school (by design): https://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/mbhs[/quote]

That seems dishonest. Whitman is 9% Hispanic and 4% black. [b]Segregation is alive in well in western Montgomery county[/b].

https://www.greatschools.org/maryland/bethesda/970-Walt-Whitman-High-School/#Race_ethnicity*Test_scores*Overview[/quote]

This is true only if you count Asian-heritage people as honorary whites. Which, indeed, some people often do seem to do, when it comes to Whitman. But they never seem to do that, when it comes to Wootton. Why the inconsistency?[/quote]

It's amazing how much lack of awareness Whitman parents have. The whole "we have Asians" or "IMF kids" is not relevant when discussing the N word. Besides, of the 4% 1/2 are west African.[/quote]

So basically, when you say "segregation", you are referring specifically and exclusively to percentages of kids whose ancestors arrived in the US as part of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

I 'm not a Whitman parent.[/quote]

Kids at Whitman are using the N word, that is what the thread is about. So yes, we are talking about black kids not wealthy Western African kids.

In the Whitman district most the black kids who have ancestors that were slaves are kept in a few neighborhoods. They are still segregated from wealthy people. I think it is called Tobytown. They are all over The "W" districts, neighborhoods that were given to slaves after they were freed.  In Churchill, it is called Scottland.

So yes, Whitman has an issue with the way black kids are treated at school. The parents are clueless and the black parents with money send their kids to private schools like Landon. [/quote]

And people wonder why I, an immigrant, am appealed at racism here. I knew and posted about VA being the hotbed of racism, but this is truly eye opening! "The black kids who have ancestors that were slaves ARE KEPT in a ...."Please tell me you are black, because otherwise this is unbearable.[/quote]

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