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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ignorance?  No.  Reality.  And the only hate here is entirely in your head.[/quote]

Keep on believing that we are living in a post-racial America if you wish. The news tells me otherwise.[/quote]

"The news"?  What news is that?  And is it actually representative, is it statistically relevant, or is it just cherry-picked anecdotal stuff like how people are trying to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters because they keep trotting out stuff like "dead people are on the voter rolls" and "ACORN committed massive voter fraud" even though the facts show that since 2000 there have only been 13 instances of actual voter fraud in the entire nation that were actually proven and which actually resulted in criminal conviction?    Sure, I could find 13 racist a-holes in America.  But, widespread racist oppression?  No.[/quote]

Systemic oppression, by definition, is widespread oppression. For example:
1. Crack .v. Coke drug sentencing
2. Racial Profiling
3. Black Vernacular English .v. Standard English
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With regard to:
1. The war on drugs has been a failure
2. AAs statistically commit more crime.  Might want to start there first.
3. Uhmwhat?  How is the fact that AAs make up their own vernacular and choose to be different "racial oppression"?[/quote]

1. What does that have to do with the fact that the possession of crack (which was pumped into black communities by the government, and pushed very hard in DC, i might add) carries stiffer penalties than the possession of cocaine (which consists of the same drug, but is considered to be a drug more prominent in the white community)?

2. So, based on your reasoning, I should assume that all white people are tyrants that steal land and cause worldwide oppression and decimation and should be treated like the criminals they have presented themselves to be?

3. That is akin to holding native Spanish speakers at fault for not speaking English. Black Vernacular has rules of its own. Because you don't understand the structure and rules of it does not invalidate it as legitimate. If its speakers were treated with the care given to speakers of other language students would be given the support to make the connections and code switch when needed. Instead it is just written off as wrong, ignored and the result is the systemic underserving of many of the black students in the DCPSs. I would go on, but I have already probably lost you.[/quote]

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