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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in DCPS. The only thing important to me (at the time) was that my daughter go to a good school. She goes to a WOTP school and has been one of maybe 2-3 black kids in the class for the last 5 years. It wasn't an issue until she asked if she could go to a school with more black kids. She says no one has been mean to her, but she feels like she doesn't fit in. It's a tough thing to resolve. I haven't found any solutions yet. [/quote]

They may not be mean but I can guarantee they are doing things to exclude her.  I was one of only a few black kids at an all white school and it was not a good experience.  Get her into a more diverse school before her self esteem ends up damaged. [/quote]

+1 
I would not send my white child to an all black school for the same reason.[/quote]

I think there is some overlap, but it's different if your kid is the majority race in society and hasn't faced societal discrimination.[/quote]

Hasn't faced [b]societal discrimination? [/b]Are you kidding me?
Easy to say if you aren't the only white kid in an all black school.[/quote]

PP here.  No, white kids do not experience societal/institutional discrimination.

Btw, our neighborhood school is predominantly AA, although there are a few white kids there.  They're doing fine and haven't experienced any race-based issues.[/quote]

I have a bi-racial child and a white child. My white child was the only white kid in his class one year and didn't have any problems. Now we are in a predominantly white neighborhood. My bi-racial child has had repeated "discipline" issues with his school even though his behavior is completely typical. The white kids don't treat him like a white kid, even though he's half white. The black kids treat him like a black kid. I've heard that bi-racial kids sometimes choose one race over the other to identify with, and I now think this has to do with how accepting the racial groups are around them are of them, more than their self-identity.

I'm a white single mom, and I am prepared to be a part of whatever black community my kid finds for himself as he grows up, since he is clearly more accepted as a black person than as a white person.[/quote]

“Colorism”. There was an episode about this on the show Blackish. The family of 5 kids gave all shades of black: and they addressed the discrimination that even family shows each other for being light or dark skinned. “light is alright, brown can stick around, black get back.” Began with slave owners separating dark and light blacks in families; lighter tones were “house” negroes, dark were “field” negroes. We have a painful history. Many AAs have experienced discrimination by AAs for being AA. We have a long way to go, but we are getting there. It’s a really good episode and I loce the show because they do such a good job of creating awareness around issues in the black community, and the history behind it. I[/quote]

This did not begin with slave owners. Human beings the world over do this to each other. It is a mysterious part of human nature. It has nothing to do with blacks vs whites or the history of slavery.[/quote]

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