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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a predominantly black school through eighth grade and I am white. I would do the same with my son though our neighborhood school is closer to 50/50.  Certainly helps one not to have the kind of weird hang ups some white people have, like thinking being AA is a personality type or something. [b]Did I sometimes feel weird and not part of the dominant culture?  Sure but I don’t know that that was a bad thing to experience and navigate. [/b][/quote]

I'm the poster who said that if a white three year old experiences racial discrimination at school, it could be a learning experience. I was thinking of micro-aggressions, ignorant assumptions, maybe use of a racial epithet or an incident of exclusion; the kind of stuff I, as a white person, have once in a while actually experienced. Being subjected to that level of racist treatment I think [b]can be[/b] a learning experience for white people, because it can remind us that racism exists, show us that hurts, that it's wrong, and we can learn something about race, privilege, and decent conduct as we navigate the best response. I was not thinking that it would be OK for a white child to be violently attacked because of their race or something like that -- that's just so out of the realm of what I perceive as realistic (and yes, it is a white privilege for it to be so unrealistic for my kids) that I didn't even think about it.

As a PP said -- white parents who are so concerned about having the only white kid in the preschool class, what is the worst thing that could realistically happen? IMO, it would be a racist statement from a kid or teacher (i.e., "you can't do X because you are white.") If that happened to my kid, it would absolutely be a learning experience to unpack the comment and respond to it. Non-white kids get this message all the time. Parents need to recognize it (when it's sent to our kids or others) and be ready to help our kids respond appropriately.  [/quote]

[b]Most normal people don't want to live in a neighborhood, school, or heck work at a company where they are less than 10% of the population. [/b] It's human nature people[/quote]

[b]That’s white people nature. [/b][/quote]

What exactly is "white people nature", dear racist fellow?[/quote]

I'm not the poster who wrote the comment, but many affluent black people live in neighborhoods and go to schools where they are less than 10% of the population. They choose to live in those neighborhoods and send their kids to those schools. [/quote]

And?

That's perfectly normal in a country where blacks account for 12% of the population.
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And... the idea that normal people don't want to live in a neighborhood, go to school or work where they are less than 10% of the population is not necessarily true. It's not "white people nature". Nor is it black people nature.

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