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I'm so sick of people saying that a family from India and Spain is diverse. No. Sorry. It's a valid point to say you don't want your kid to be the only kid with dark brown skin in his class. Stop saying it's an old fashion way of looking at things. A white kid from Spain  that speaks Spanish is great when being able to offer worldly diversity and cultural diversity, but that kid is not going to have the same plight as a black kid would when dealing with the issues that we deal with on a day to day basis. That white looking kid that speaks Spanish is not going to have to worry about being stereotyped by his teachers, parents of friends, neighbors or cops.

Honestly, would you be fine with sending your white kid to a school of all kids with black skin? What if the black kids were from dozens of African countries, Bahamas, Jamaica, Dominican, and Trinidad? That's diverse right? Well guess what, Banneker is filled with various African students as well as Caribbean students and for some reason I don't see any whites applying for it despite its diversity that's not boiled down to black/white. Because they don't see Ethipoian, Nigerian, Trinidad, Jamaican, they see an all black school and they don't want their kid to be an only. Valid reason IMO. Don't contest when the tables are turned.[/quote]

It's evident from your POV of view that you identify as black, and you make a good point that in some situations, a person with black skin will have a different experience than the person with a different level of melanin in that same situation. 
^^^ the absolute truth of this doesn't mean only the people with black skin get to write the definition of "diversity" in 2016.   1st pp was correct, that a diverse school encompasses all manner of "races," ethnicities, religions, and much more.

(Janney's student body hits a few of these categories.)

When you mean to say "this school just isn't black enough for me to feel right about sending my son there," why not say what you mean?  [/quote]

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