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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hard work and determination made slaves successful?  Allowed Black people to thrive under American apartheid (Jim Crow laws)?  Allowed Black people to build wealth under systems of red-lining?

I think you need to hop off your silver spoon.[/quote]
And you need to hop over to 2020, none of these things are stopping anyone from being successful today. The biggest barrier to success are terrible parents telling their children that someone or something is stopping them from being somebody.[/quote]

Is it that you don't think it matters that the average white family has 10 times more wealth than the average Black family (just one of many examples of the way historical racism continues to play out), or that you think that doesn't have anything to do with our history of centuries of racism and racial injustice?

Legal segregation and other forms of explicit and major structural racism have been over for less than 60 years.  Little Ruby Bridges who integrated her school under brutally racist circumstances is only 66 years old today.  How quickly do you think all the effects of this stuff disappear?

It's like you beat a person bloody and then start yelling at them as they lie battered on the floor "Why aren't you getting up?  I'm not hitting you anymore!  You must just be lazy and weak..."[/quote]
What are you blathering about? What exactly is stopping a high schooler of any color from becoming successful? What law is prohibiting them from becoming as powerful and educated as they want? I’m truly wondering what you are talking about, how will you face a 17 year old and tell them “you can’t do this because of your race” in 2020? And my children aren’t white by the way.[/quote]

NP. I agree with this wholeheartedly. Do I think racism exists? Yes, it does and we need to work on it as a country. But do I think that here in 2020, that there is something prohibiting black and brown kids from being successful in school? Absolutely NOT despite what liberals want you to believe. [/quote]

Dispatches from a low-performing urban district. It just happens that 90% of students here are Black or Latino, funny how that happens. Our kids get the crumbling school. Our kids get the cancelled theatre program because building inspectors designated the theatre as unsafe. Our kids have trashcans catching leaks in every school I"ve been in recently. Many of our kids don't have access to advanced academic classes, particularly in math and science. Our kids get long-term subs with no content knowlege.30% of our teachers are chronically absent. When teachers did a work to rule union action, that meant no extra help, no factulty for afterschool activities, and no recommendatio letters. Our school system is being sued by the DOJ for violating requirement for informing parents about their children's rights to ELL services and not providing those services. Our kids work multiple jobs to help out at home, or they watch their siblings and cousins so adults can work. When our kids play away games against non-urban districts, the crowds chant "USA, USA" or "Trump, Trump."

This system exists because of racism, because of an existential fear of what would happen if these kids got all they deserved and were competing against the kids with all the advantages.

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I live in a million dollar neighborhood and you just described the high school my son attends. Why?  Equity.  Our county takes our tax dollars and spends most of it on schools in the poorer parts of the county. Our kids still thrive because none of what you described matters all that much.  Having 2 parents who care about education is the most important factor in educational success. Your area is probably 65% single parents.  That's what's keeping everyone down.[/quote]

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