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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you’re almost 18 year old adult aged son is so terrified for his life at the prospect of being chased that you are attempting to involve police escorts and politicians in an attempt to protect him from an unknown threat? If he were over 18 (which maybe he is already) there would be nothing you could do anyways because it would be his issue to deal with as an adult. [b]How in the world do you expect him to survive in college without police escorts or mommy and daddy showing up to defend him?[/b][/quote]

You are horrible.  You sound like you don't have kids in DC public schools and have no idea how vicious kids can be.  Also I don't know if OP's son is a POC, but it can be especially rough for black/Latino boys in DC publics.[/quote]

Really? You think Black kids are more at risk? You don't think white kids in a prediminately black school, likely located in a rough neighborhood,  have it rough? Are you in fantasy land? This is the reason why many families either avoid DC school like the plague, or they do everything in their power to avoid particular schools. I don't blame them at all.[/quote]

[b]I don't think you have any experience of this topic.[/b] Black kids are much more at risk.  If you look at crime statistics, this is also true of adults -- being white makes you less likely to be a victim of crime.

I went to rough a rough, poor [b]all white[/b] middle school.  I fought almost daily and often carried a knife outside of school. Two guys who used to jump me for fun went to jail for manslaughter soon after high school graduation.  My parents moved, and I went to a rough [b]majority black[/b] high school.  I was never once in a fight or bullied or threatened.  It was like I was assumed to be an un-involved bystander in the fighting that went on, which I was happy to be.

My impression talking to parents at my kid's majority non-white high school is that parents of color have much more to be concerned about in terms of peer pressure and fighting than my white kid.  He's assumed to be a bystander and, as he says, if he doesn't look for trouble he has none.  [/quote]

Well, you would be wrong. You have a very self serving interpretation of crime statistics, that not surprisingly, nobody has pointed out. [b]Most white people don't live and/or associate with a significant number of black people, and therefore aren't victimized by them.[/b] Just because few white people are killed in SE DC doesn't mean that it's safe for White people. I can't believe that I had to explain this.

The idea that white people get a free pass by black people (especially  kids) is a great dcum fairytale, but it's hardly what I experienced. And ditto for my friends and family. This was at a time when the crime rate was twice as high as it is today, and racial tension was high as well. There is a reason why everyone with a few bucks moved to the burbs.

Anyway, what school did this happen at? Will anyone on dcum volunteer to send their kids to this school?[/quote]

That's actually quite true.  While a majority of crime is between members of the same racial group, interracial crime is overwhelmingly black on white.  In the instances where blacks and whites live/work together there's a significant amount of black on white crime.  Based on population numbers and crime rates, blacks are 27 times more likely to attack a white than the other way around.   In 2013 (last numbers I saw, Bureau of Justic Statistics) white violent offenders had black victims 4% of the time and black violent offenders had white victims 39% of the time.
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