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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do we *need* white students?  Can't we just focus on the kids here and support them?[/quote]

+1.

We don’t need them.  HBCU grads (especially Spelman (Stacey Abrams), Morehouse (MLK Jr./Spike Lee), and Howard (VP Harris)) are a testament to that fact.[/quote]

DCPS doesn’t need white students.  It does need more students that are not low-income.  Being in schools with a majority of grade-level peers is what helps lagging students improve, so says the research.[/quote]

Completely disagree. Whites are the dominant group in our society and democracy and will continue to be for generations.

From where I sit, children of color, regardless of a class, who don't have a chance to mix with cohorts of white kids, to tap into their family's social and professional networks, in school and college miss out.

I will not encourage my children to attend HBCU's.  I say this a a person of college who had few white classmates growing up, and no white friends until college. I feel like I would have been better off if I'd been able to attend racially and economically diverse schools, and not just because they might have been better than the schools I had access to academically.[/quote]

In this context, a Black person would simply say they’re Black.  As a “person of color” (read: non-Black) you clearly don’t understand the history and value of Black colleges.  That’s fine because you’re not the target audience.  I would say that the aforementioned HBCU alums, plus countless others (including Thurgood Marshall, Oprah Winfrey, Rosalind Brewer, etc) didn’t miss out on anything with their degrees from Black colleges.

I’ll leave you with this fact:

“Despite the fact that Black colleges account for just 3 percent of four-year nonprofit colleges, their alumni account for roughly 80 percent of black judges and 50 percent of black lawyers and doctors, and their students account for 25 percent of black undergraduates who earn degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).”  
Source:  https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/05/howard-universitys-president-why-america-needs-hbcus/589582/

So, a great deal of Black college grads appear to be thriving and achieving the “American Dream.”  However, you are free to continue to believe that the white man’s ice is colder.  [/quote]

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