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A good perspective.  I'm always amazed at the stories of immigrants, such as the Vietnamese boat people who arrived in this country with absolutely NOTHING, not even speaking the language.  Many took menial jobs or became fishermen in places like Louisiana not known for their openness.  Within a few years their some of their kids were going to great universities.  Meanwhile, others yammer on about wanting "reparations", set asides and what is "owed" to them, 150 years after the emancipation proclamation and 50 years after the Civil Rights Act.[/quote]

I personally haven't come into contact with anyone who's been clamoring for reparations, but I take it that you feel like African-Americans in general need to step up and do for themselves instead of complaining that nothing is being done for them.   The problem with this thinking is that common issue where people like to group all African-Americans together like they are one monolithic group.  There are African-Americans throughout this city that are middle class and up, own homes, and have careers.  My thinking is that most people would have no problem going to a school that's majority African-American if the vast majority of the children came from families like the Obamas.

With that being said, there is a segment of the African-American community that seem to stuck in poverty, and most of blame has to be put on them for the choices that were made in life.   Most are from single parent households, and have not made the choice to pursue higher education as a way to achieve a higher socio-economic status.   Unless these issues are addressed and an emphasis is placed on education, this segment of the African-American community will always be where they are.[/quote]

Institutional racism.  Clearly you have not heard of it; and have no understanding that racism did not die with Jim Crow.  In fact there are some rather convincing arguments that Jim Crow was merely replaced with a more effective and subversive system of racial oppression in this country.  Michelle Alexander anyone?   "Have not made the choice to pursue higher education".  Clearly you have not a clue about the way in which poverty and racism impacts one's access to choice in this city and beyond.  Your ignorance regarding this fact is laughable given the topic of this thread--access to Deal and Wilson.  Who has access and who do those who have access think should be denied?  [/quote]

You don't think that Vietnamese boat people who spoke no English weren't discriminated against?  Let's start to move away from the simple bipolar black-white narrative.  There's been plenty of discrimination in this country's history, including against Jews and Irish Catholics.  [/quote]

+1. And lets talk about the real discrimination today, that against "illegals" being deported by the millions. [/quote]

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