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[quote=Anonymous]@22:26, the enlightenment is as plan as the nose on your face.  Many times we as blacks do not shy away from incorporating monies, activities and support from white parents.  It is when the incorporating comes with a hidden agenda of "change" which immediate leads to skepticism.

It just seems that if the black parent is not of middle-class status then all bets are off for hoping that their children have the best education.

We all know that familiarity brings comfort and therefore when black parents see the predominant black school staff from Principal to Custodian then a comfort level is developed.  But it always seems to me that when whites join the mix they want to upset the apple cart.

Instead of asking what they can do to help, it appears that it is always a point to expose what we are not doing as a race involving education and the only way to save this school is the help from white parents.  Hence, the saviour complex is being observed and viewed.

In certain instances it is genuine but many times it is not and my batting average shows that the whites who wanted to help a certain school in my neighborhood was not genuine.

The irony was that the former Superintendent and Chancellor forewarned us of what was going to happen and we all know that both former leaders of the schools were minoritiies themselves.  Hence, a minority is our school leader currently and the dialogue still continues about who will have the best interest at heart for our black children.  As I stated before familiarity brings comfort.

Saving a situation is a good thing.  Who would ever thought that the U-street and H-street corridors would ever be saved because of white people.  Let me restate it wasn't saved by a race of people but a class of people.

I too have been enlightened it is not the race of people that will give me the saviour complex it is the class of people that will be my stumbling block.  If we only had a group of PWT to counteract the situation.[/quote]

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