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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not really race that MC/UMC white liberals are reacting to, it’s poverty. Someone even said in the article “MC blacks are fine.”

Personally I think this is true. I don’t want my kids going to school with a lot of poor kids. That’s not nice to say but it’s the truth. Poor families don’t have the time or the resources, or often the inclination, to invest effort into their kids’ education. So that means little Johnnie starts school not even knowing his letters and yes, too many kids like him and it’s going to detract from my daughter who started school already reading simple books.

I’m totally fine with her being the minority in a class of brown kids who started school already reading. Their color is not my issue.[/quote]

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Why has no one responded to this assertion?

For UMC people, it's not racism that is the problem, it is poverty. I don't care what color you are if you're teaching your kids to read and write and do basic math at 4. If you're not doing those things, yeah I'm going to have a problem with you.[/quote]

I'm inclined to agree.  I wouldn't send me white kids to a majority-poor school, regardless of the demographics.  I was one of the poor kids in my schools growing up, and I'm not afraid to say that many poor kids came from unstructured homes with low standards and low expectations, and that carried negatively into the classroom (while I was poor too, my home life was the total opposite - and was rare in my experience).  I want my kids around other kids who come from families that prioritize education and hold their kids accountable for their actions, and that's sadly not the case in many poor families, likely due to education (uneducated parents) or competing priorities (juggling two jobs instead of helping the kids with their homework).  It's a sad reality in our world.[/quote]

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