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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]but people here can keep convincing themselves they are progressive and "would NEVER" be racist. Eye roll. [/quote]

So will you please commit here that you won't be one of the people screaming "racist gentrification!" when white families start applying to Banneker in mass, even when Banneker becomes a majority white school?[/quote]

It won't. Because racism.

But like I said, most everyone here can keep trying to convince themselves. [/quote]

OK, I'll mark that down as a commitment from you not to complain though if it does.  I'm bookmarking this thread, because I suspect it might happen sometime in the next 5 years.

Can you explain your "racism" claim?  No doubt there are many people who are consciously or subconsciously bigoted.  But adding white students to Banneker doesn't take changing everyone in DC.  Even if there are only a handful of white families who aren't bigoted, then that's some starting basis to apply to Banneker, right?  Are you seriously contending that [u]every[/u] white person in all of DC is so bigoted that they will refuse to apply to Banneker because it's a majority black school?  Are you saying every single white person is racist?  If that's your view, I'd like to hear you say it directly.[/quote]

PP might not be saying "every single white person is racist" but I will. There is no way to grow up in the United State of America - with the kind of racial history we have baked into the cake of our society  and not be racist.  Period.  I am white, have a black spouse and black children and I am racist.  If I don't admit that to myself I will stop examining my bias and growing as a person.  [/quote]

I am white and I am not a racist. However every black person I've ever had as a friend was a racist. [/quote]

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