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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is bullshit.  Give me one example of this.  I went to a lily white school and I wish that my parents had not sent me.  Being called a nigger - and people finding that acceptable - was no fun at all.[/quote]

Actually, you've just delivered your own example. Because you endured what you shouldn't have you (possibly) now judge all predominantly white environments in this city by those standards, thereby (possibly) denying your child a better experience and leaving him or her confused about the disconnect between your experience and the reality. The reality: by far most white urban dwellers are unbelievably scared to even go near denoting anything to do with race. Their taboo of anything "racist" extends well beyond calling some "nigger" (not to mention that the continued use of this term in some of the black community surrounding me confuses me highly); they won't even let their blond girls inquire about wearing beads or their boy about cutting a mohawk because telling them that this won't look as cool or pretty as in black hair, Gog forbid, just might call attention to the fact that people in our city come in different colors.
Did you know that research shows that shushing all conversation about racial differences may actually not foster but prevent interracial understanding? Kids, yours included, go on to connecting the dots themselves, no more meaningfully than they'd learn math without any guidance. And there we go, reiterating assumptions of the past unless we leap to cut the vicious circle.[/quote]

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