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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dating discrimination is that white women date black men but black women don’t like to date white men.  Because they don’t find white men attractive.  Sure, they would hook up with George Clooney but they ain’t going out with George from Seinfeld.

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Exactly. White men are the most frequent victims of discrimination. [/quote]

LOL.  This thread has long since jumped the shark.  People that are new to these issues think the sky is falling.  For many of us, this has been standard in nearly all institutions -- not just the elite ones.  It's not right or acceptable and we should strive to fix these issues, but this is a part of life for black folks.  It's good that people are starting to acknowledge it.  But the pendulum can swing too far into woke-land where black folks, like maybe in the case of the NCS diversity and inclusion person who quit on the very students she claimed were being abused even though addressing issues of diversity were her express charge within her job description (sorry, just my view, don't quit and say it's not your job to fix something that is literally your job to fix or at least help out with. Ultimately, you were there to serve the students, not yourself), begin to focus more on how things ought to be rather than how to thrive within what is...WHILE seeking positive change for yourself and others.

Whether people like it or not, that's the landscape, which by the way if appreciably better than what it has been heretofore.  Quitting or just throwing your hands up in the air and leaving only deprives you of the benefits that come from inclusion.  Yes, there is a price to pay and those of us with children in these schools need to be careful that they aren't undermined or disillusioned in the name of an elite education.  But that's the balance.  [/quote]

"That's the price to pay?" You and I clearly see things quite differently, as I do not believe that having my child's head photoshopped on top of the corpse of a holocaust victim is a price I'm willing to pay--or for my child to pay--for ANYTHING.

"that's the balance?" What are you talking about? The balance being requested isn't that we go from photoshopping faces onto holocaust victims all the way over to, as you call it, "woke-land." There is a ****huge**** amount of daylight between these incidents and "woke-land," as you so pejoratively call it.

Call me "woke," but I don't think it's "the price to pay" to have diverse children photoshopped onto corpses from the holocaust. I do not think it's the "price to pay" to have a diverse child surrounded while having "build that wall!" being chanted around him. I do not think it's the "price to pay" to have a diverse child being pressured, day in and day out, to kill himself. Besides, who is charging the price? That would be the schools, at about 50k. For 50k, I think I'll go somewhere where my kid and his diverse classmates and teachers are not the objects of vicious, racist, anti-semitic genocide jokes. But I guess that's just "my balance." [/quote]

Then it's simple, take your kids out of the school and put them somewhere where you, I mean, they, are more comfortable.  That's completely reasonable.  But just know that doing that won't change the world your kid has to live in today or tomorrow.  Further, one day your kid will have to confront those issues regardless. But making a youngster have to work that all out isn't something I relish and I get why parents wouldn't want to pay and deal with that kind of BS.

I won't respond to the absurdity of your transference of the actions of expelled kids (photoshop) to what I said about being resilient in a world that won't be fair, which is completely reasonable mind you, but that did give me a little chuckle.  Maybe I'm wrong, but this "diverse child" language makes me think that you and I haven't grown up the same way.  So again, maybe we see the world differently.  And it's different strokes for different folks.  I'm black.  My family is proud of our African American heritage.  Like it or not, struggle and success in the face of a black experience that has been far less than fair is a part of our identity.  That's not going to change, your woke-ness notwithstanding.  But keep fighting the good fight.  Your idealism may help my kids one day, so I thank you in advance.  [/quote]

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