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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]DCPS is a district focused primarily on the growth and success of low-income children of color. From leadership down that is the priority, [b]and it should be[/b].[/quote]

Explain to me why a school system should focus primarily upon on one socio-economic and ethnic group. Other jurisdictions like Arlington,  Alexandria, MCPS, and Fairfax somehow seem to manage to care about ALL learners. [/quote]

Because inequality is horrible for society overall, yes even for you.

I'm a European immigrant (but not Anglo) who is disgusted with continuing segregation and imprisonment of a significant portion of the US population. I want my kids to benefit from fair competition where the brightest minds can apply their talents and efforts to better society, not a system that suppresses such talent based on random and inconsequential (to quality) attribute, such as skin color, gender, accent, religion, sexual orientation, to name a few.

Do people really not get it or just pretend not to get it? SMH[/quote]

Most whites believe that those other groups don’t contain the best or brightest. See how DCUM uses “white” as a proxy for UMC. If you’re really European but not Anglo, then you must be aware of this racism yourself, because it’s rampant in Europe also. Or are you just pretending it doesn’t exist?[/quote]

Usually I am on DCUM castigating the casual racism of posters. In this case I am going to argue your virtual signaling blindness is getting in the way of facts. People use "white" as a placeholder for UMC and "black" as a placeholder for FARMs because the DC data supports those as reasonable proxies. I don't think anyone who uses those words that way fails to understand their are FARMs white families and UMC black ones. But in DC there are on the whole very few white FARMs families and the poverty rate amongst black families in DC is very high especially against all other demos.

There's an ongoing battle on Nextdoor about people who send out lookouts for people who committed crimes and describe hat, hair color, shirt, pants, shoes, car and don't mention the race of the person. When people point out the absurdity of failing to describe the only factor that cannot be changed, the woke police argue it is not ok to describe race. (Never mind that by assuming the perpetrator is black they are showing their own bias). I am betting, PP, that you are on the side of people who think it is wrong to cite the race in a post purporting to be a "look out for" post?

TL: DR It isn't racist to say "black" or "white" if the population about which you speak is mostly black or white. [/quote]

Not trying to be a dickhead but please capitalize the B in Black but not the "w" in white.[/quote]
I am not PP but may I ask why? Is this some sort of white guilt or self castigation or what? I keep seeing B vs w and wonder [/quote]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black.html[/quote]

LMAO[/quote]

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