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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're going to have to burn a large percentage of legal hornbooks that use the term "grandfathering" in the law schools.  The term itself is not racist.  [/quote]

The term is the definition of systemic racism -- you get access to your own civil rights based on the status of someone two generations before you.

If grandfathering had been applied literally, then any Black man who had a white grandfather who had voted before 1865 would've had full voting rights between 1890 and 1915 when grandfathering was declared unconstitutional. (Side note: genetic studies show a third of Black American men today have a white male relative.)

Ironically, grandfathering supposedly ended during the presidency of avowed racist Woodrow Wilson whose namesake school in the richest, whitest part of DC is at issue here.

The end of grandfathering disenfranchised some poor white voters. So states used other means of Black voter intimidation and suppression to achieve the same ends as grandfathering.

Despite the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which helped Blacks and poor whites, here we are in 2021 with states again trying to erode voting rights and Wilson's name on a school he would've hated.

No matter how benignly the term is used to justify access to Wilson feeders, grandfathering is inextricably linked to a lack of full voting rights for Black people that persists today.

You can't talk about DC statehood without the history of Black voter suppression including grandfathering.

But go ahead and keep using a term that "is not racist."

I don't have a better alternative than legacy at the moment. But someone more skilled in law than me could explore the use of "sunset provision" -- implying a fixed time -- over grandfathering. [/quote]  Someone please tell DCPS - b/c it is in their documents
"...Note: Feeder patterns are subject to evolve as new student assignment phase-in policies and grandfathering clauses take effect."[/quote]

+1 their PowerPoints also use terms like “whitening” which I find offensive. [/quote]

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