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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People in the AA community need to start encouraging reverse bias.  Look to hire well-qualified AA candidates -- recruit them, interview them, hire them.  Then, after they are hired, look out for them, mentor them, and promote them.  Ivy league alums do that openly and proudly.  The AA community needs to do that openly and proudly.

DC has a large AA community and as such, there should be lots of AA preschool teachers.  If there is not an not AA preschool teacher in every school in DC, then the AA community needs to start encouraging AA teachers to be applying for those spots, taking them, and nurturing our future generation.

If it is the AA preschool teachers are the ones discriminating against AA preschoolers, that is a problem for the AA community to resolve. Every member of the AA community should be looking out for every child (black or white, but especially AA).  If you see an AA parent who hurts a AA child, it is your job to speak up as a fellow member of the AA community.  You make sure that child is loved, fed, cared for. You offer to pick up that child from school and talk to his/her teachers.  You don't just sit there and watch a parent be mean to any child.

As the member of a minority group who has a long history of discrimination and mistreatment, I have watched us look out for each other.  The AA community needs to do the same.  Obviously there is no excuse for discrimination ever but if you know it is happening, at the very least, move your child to a school environment where they can be safe and loved.[/quote]

But yet you bitch about this when white people do this very thing and label it privilege. I would say what you suggest would be a problem but honestly even if it happens it won't possibly be in numbers enough to move the needle.

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I am the PP who you quote and am white.  There is 100% white privilege and most whites would agree with me.  Why can't there be black privilege?  It just takes a commitment from the AA community to make it happen.  I am a member of the Jewish community and have been outraged at the hatred from others because I need to take off early on Friday nights to celebrate my "Sunday".  Yeah, I'd like to end it but meanwhile, I am going to look for a Jewish employer who won't discriminate against me.  Every person in today's day and age has been discriminated against, even white males, but AA men have had more than there fair share and it's overdue for the larger AA community (including white parents, etc) to get together and at the very least protect these innocent preschoolers -- it's breaking my heart and bringing me to tears at what is happening to our future generation.[/quote]

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