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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can't believe there's no mention of Jelleff in this story. It's walkable from Walls. [/quote]

I don’t think there’s a baseball field there, so it might not have seemed relevant to the story. But I agree that it should have been referenced as an example of DCPS priorities and precedents.[/quote]

There isn't a dedicated baseball field there, but the Maret baseball team practices on it (which pushes back use of the field by other D.C. organizations who pay to rent the space...). They have portable turf pitchers' mound that they bring on.[/quote]if DCPS kids really cared, they’d go to Maret  games and practices and disrupt them to they point that the fields are untenable. [/quote]

I’m black and have never understood the frame that white people should be rightfully denied certain things on account of being white, [b]but this seems to be view that is coming up AMONG white folks more often. [/b] I’ve never heard this kind of thinking from black folks.  In fact, we’d prefer if if the white kids got their field because then it strengthens the argument that (all) “our” kids should get one. The concept that UMC white kids should be denied seems to accept a reality when all of us are denied better lest we can afford Maret, etc.  That is not striking a blow for equity.  [/quote]

It just plain racism. White people talk like this so they can pretend that they aren't racist, but if they were the white person in the situation, you better believe they'd be complaining -- or making sure their own snowflake goes to private.[/quote]

Wait sorry, your argument is that white people in D.C. are racist against white people? Talk about problems that don’t need fixing until EVERY other problem is fixed first…[/quote]

They don’t actually have an argument.  White and Black parents have responded to this thread saying that this poster doesn’t represent anyone.  They are just clumsily trying to stir controversy to generate page views. [/quote]

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