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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm black for what it's worth. If the school works well for my child now, why would I deprive them of the school based on whatever happened in the past?

I get that this calculation might be different for white families (and others) that don't want to condone the transgressions of the past. But certainly don't make any decisions based on what you think black folks "might" think.

Most of us don't care and the ones that might raise a ruckus are almost invariably outliers in view and disposition AMONG black folks.

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Speak for yourself. I’m Black and I’m definitely judging you if you currently send your child to a former segregation academy. That is a different level of racism from a formerly segregated school that was founded pre-Brown vs. Board. Like many things, there are levels to this.[/quote]

An elderly woman that I know was withdrawn from her own school and sent, as a 13 year old, to be a live in personal servant to a student at a private all boys boarding school in Virginia, so that she could help support her family after her father was run out of town by a lynch mob.

I think the fact that that school was founded before Brown doesn't mean that there isn't a horrifying level of racism in its past.  [/quote]

Boys' schools wouldn't allow young girls to be personal servants for their male students. Boys schools also didn't have personal servants for the students living on campus. These schools had school matrons and school staff. Southern boys schools tended to be military academies too.

The closest your story could be true would be a family moving to a school campus because a parent was a housekeeper or groundskeeper and the 13 year old was helping out in the kitchens or scrubbing the floors of the dormitories, both otherwise the schools would have kept the children of black domestic staff rigorously separated from their white students. Last but not least, there was no shortage of more experienced, older black domestic help either. I suspect whoever told you the story was a bit confused or embellished some of the details. [/quote]

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