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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Culture of low expectations-  assume that balck parents care most about crap food and delicate white parents. B
 News flash, black parents want academic rigor and high expectations and better options for their kids. [/quote]

Haven't you heard? In the new era of the woke-police, white people need to assume that all black children come from single family households (or foster care) and are incapable of advancing academically beyond wherever they are in school right now. To assume black kids (like all kids) can do better and push black kids and demand more from them (as white people and teachers would with all other kids) is apparently now racist. Oh, and black kids who are morbidly obese in ES need to be praised for their "curves" and their parents similarly praised for loving them enough to feed them food that causes diabetes and other major health concerns.

It is no wonder that the families of top performing black kids flee DCPS and HRCS before our kids internalize these limiting messages about their capabilities and worth.     [/quote]

Imagine waking up this wrong and angry. Go back to bed[/quote]

Yes, I am angry. Angry that a small bunch of loud black people have decided that lowered expectations somehow means "equity" and that they've guilted a bunch of white people into thinking being an ally means reinforcing negative stereotypes about my black kids. But I do so enjoy the white liberal masses on DCUM lecturing POC about how we need to be more sensitive to the needs of the black community.

(This is where PP will come back and say "she's black". Never fails on DCUM that anytime someone's liberal guilt or condescending white concern gets called out they miraculously turn out to be black. You'd think 90% of DCUM is POC!)[/quote]

Have you tried to correct the loud black people or do you just mock the liberal white people?

Once you all figure this out, let me know where I can be an ally.[/quote]

You have it all figured out! In the battle for equitable and quality education where black and brown kids are victims of lowered expectations the true victims here are...white people who are made uncomfortable. Please, white lady, tell us how we can advocate for our children and express concern in a manner that makes YOU most comfortable, because in the end making white women feel comfortable is what maters most. [/quote]

No, I don’t and I didn’t say I did.  But if I did and I said so, [b]you would say I was centering my whiteness and silencing those with lived experience.[/b] So I am [b]happy to support you in advocating for your children in (almost) whatever form works for you[/b].

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1. Not a chance in hell I would use either one of those phrases. If you think that you must not have read anything I wrote today. Sounds like your experience with black folks is the type that do the training in that article. Time to get some black friends who will speak openly and honestly and let you express your true feelings and then tell you what they think - and then you open a bottle of wine and move on. 
2. No!!!! Do not support just anything a black person says as long as they couch it in their "lived experience". Obese black kids are not obese because of how their parents show love. Or because they are single parents. I am not asking you to shame them, but neither should you give them a pass, or, worse, embrace it as "blackness" or their "lived experience". Black folks who commit violent crimes don't get a pass because they are black or poor or uneducated. They terrorize their own communities too - save the liberal guilt and energy for the victims or at-risk people who haven't yet committed violent crimes. Use the brain god gave you. You cannot truly understand the black experience in America - I am not suggesting you can. But just because you don't know what it is like to be black doesn't mean common sense falls by the wayside.

My advice to my white friends is usually this. If you are not a racist then why do you give a shit if someone calls you that? If it happens all the time and comes from people you respect then maybe do some reflection and soul searching. But if you are going to enter fraught subjects like education or violence or politics then getting called names is part of participating. If someone calling you a name is enough to back you off then you didn't have conviction in your position in the first place.    [/quote]

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