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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love it if we have made it to the point where racism can just be called what it is when it's black on white, which is not uncommon in DC proper. These kids learned it from their parents like the bad way things have existed among certain white families, when we are allowed to just call it "racist".[/quote]

What you claim here is incorrect and not supported by research. What is supported by research (time to read Nurture Shock, for example) is that this type of racism and stereotyping develops in diverse environments [b]in which racial (and other differences) are not discussed[/b], in which they are made to be a taboo, one in which kids should grow up in a diverse environment and somehow magically develop an understanding for one another. The truth is that children will, out of their own need for classifications and  generalizations, develop and act on social categories that "make sense".  Many school districts have recognized this - not DC obviously, not beyond some not very well managed pilots last year anyway. Montgomery County for example uses an intervention called Community Circles to address this problem and provide safe environments for students to practice "higher-order thinking" when it comes to race (and other diversity categories). And, as PP demonstrates vividly, parents are in equal need of such intervention.

And to put it more bluntly, if you see that kind of bullying as a white minority, blame the school not the parents. My DC is in such a setting without the same negatives you describe, quite likely because our school climate copes better with it and addressed racial bullying and discrimination as it addresses any form of bullying and discrimination.[/quote]

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