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As a recent white-Asian immigrant to the US, I want everyone to stop considering race and to focus solely on income disparities. It sucks to be a white or Asian person coming from generational poverty, because that's not a demographic that is recognized anywhere. It also sucks to be a poor Black or Hispanic person. The commonality is POVERTY, not race.

We need to move on from race, and focus on economic inequality.

For magnet vs home models... I think both can be done well, and that the devil is in the execution, not the location.

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Disparities by race are larger than disparities by income. Racism is real and has real impacts. You don't want policymakers to consider that. Fine. But that's your opinion, and many disagree with that.[/quote]

PP you replied to. Maybe it's because I'm an immigrant. I don't want future generations to be saddled with the sins of their ancestors, and I think it's not helping our national discourse to continually obssess about race, which is a construct that's not even recognized in many other countries. I'd rather talk, if we absolutely have to, about ethnicities.

Also, I am of mixed East Asian and European descent. My kids are even more mixed than I am. So many children have genetic markers from multiple ethnicities, with consequences on their specific medical risks, and the creations of multicultural identities that don't fit the old norms. Why are we still trying to pigeonhole people into single niches? It's so backwards and regressive, and for the many mixed people of all types, it's downright offensive, because that categorization fails to include them at all. Most of the data collected, upon which you seem to hang your hat, PP, fails to include people from mixed ethnicities. So it's wrong anyway.

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My Black immigrant husband thought the same way as you when he arrived here 10 years ago. He now understands the Black experience here and no longer has the same viewpoint as you. It’s not an issue of “wanting to focus on race” - we wish that was it - let’s just not focus on race and racism and racial issues will go away. If only.[/quote]

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