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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's more of a class thing than race thing. Lower class people shun upper class people when they assume they won't be accepted into the upper clas society. [/quote]

I agree with this. It is very similar to what goes on in Hispanic groups (if you are into intellectual things you are often teased and even bullied). [/quote]
Do you know how you all sound? Making the underlying assumption that the African child is higher class and intellectual…and the black American students are all poor and  anti intellectual and bullying her because of that. It’s a lot of bias tied up in these statements [/quote]

No one specified who belonged to which social class, but socioeconomics does play a part in intraracial relations.[/quote]

Not the PP but it was clear from these posts which groups fell into which category. The original claim was that "lower class people shun upper class people" and the context was OP's daughter feeling shut out from the Black American (ADOS) girls. It's not a stretch to figure out what was meant by that.

Here's why I'd encourage my child to join the BSU in this situation. At some point in OP's child's time in HS, it's likely that *something* will happen that makes the racial divide clear. Maybe it will be a school-wide incident like a slur carved into a desk, or a Black parent stopped by campus security while picking up their child. Or maybe it will be something regional, like the shooting of an unarmed Black man that leads to social upheaval. It might also be something personal, like a casual insinuation that OP's daughter is benefiting from AA when applying to college.

Something will happen, because something always happens. When it does, there's a good chance that the daughter's "nice white friends" won't understand, or will play it off as a joke, or minimize the harm. In that moment, OP will want her daughter to have some Black friends. [/quote]

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