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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Media loves to highlight it because story will sell. I am in RM cluster and attended one boundary analysis meeting in QO HS.  I was disgusted to see an article in Bethesda beat depicting parents in that meeting as bunch of racist by cherrypicking quotes.

I started thinking why they did it. I think , media want to report something controversial to get more eyeballs. I don't have much clue about what's going on in Churchill or Whitman to be honest, but it won't surprise me if media is playing a similar role.

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So the people at that meeting didn't say that what they were quoted (refusing to give their names) as saying? Everything said in that piece has been repeatedly posted on DCUM, and it's presumably not all Russian trolls.

I went to the Walter Johnson boundary analysis meeting, and while I didn't hear any open bigotry, I heard plenty of things that were bigotry-adjacent.

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+1 After reading folks rail here about their property values, "FARMS kids," and "illegals," I totally believe that people said exactly what was reported at the boundary meeting. If PP doesn't like how that looks when it is put down in hard print, and if those saying it are aware enough not to be willing to be quoted by name, then I think we can all agree it is bigoted, and likely also racist.

But to answer the question in the OP, I have a middle-school aged child and a lot of contact with high schoolers, mostly from Blair. I have never heard about a racist incident being swept under the rug there, and I do believe those incidents are less common in integrated environments. Integration brings humanization of "the other" and compassion, but it also brings repercussions for racist behaviors. If some of these kids on the west side had faced a minor consequence for racism in their early years - something as simple as being excluded from a group of kids playing - then they would have learned their lesson before the stakes got quite so dire in high school. 
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Kids use N word in Blair all the time.  Sometime nonblack kids call their black friends using the N word, or something close to it.  No one cares in school because they use the word in a friendly way.  It is all based on intention. The black kids know their nonblack friend use the word as a friend. 
Why would the Blair kids you know tell you any racist incident in Blair?  There is no racist incident because using the N word in Blair is not a racial incident.[/quote]

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