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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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I am the PP you are talking about. I am mixed race and have a mixed race child. Just because our data aren't perfect - and I absolutely agree that they aren't despite you bizarrely insisting I "hang my hat" on them - doesn't mean racism isn't real and doesn't have an actual, day to day impact on people. Literally there are studies showing that teachers expect Black boys to misbehave more than White boys and interpret the SAME behaviors in Black boys as misbehavior that they ignore in White boys. IN PRESCHOOL.[/quote]

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