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Applause to you and to "word salad lady." The levels of thinly veiled racism and racist microaggressions are staggering not just on this forum, but on this entire website. Do some critical thinking, y'all. Watch some Melissa Harris-Perry or read The New Jim Crow. Talk to the Black parents at your DCPCS. Leave your snug neighborhood bubbles. Think about why the sight of a bunch of Black kids talking loudly makes you afraid, but the sight of white boys yelling at a football game in a bar doesn't. Think about the lives of these kids' great-great-grandparents and how they compared to the lives of yours. Think about the long line of privilege that resulted in you, in this moment, sitting at a computer and making cracks that "Wilson students" (Black kids, don't even START to act like you don't mean Black kids) are "too stupid" to do anything but brawl. Just listen to the experiences of people whose life paths diverge wildly from yours. Listen with an open mind. You might learn something.[/quote]

But I do think people need to readjust their outrage meters to consider that we live in an era where mobile devices share a bizarre range of wierd random public things that were never shared before (subway fights, gallon smashing, etc)   It's really not newsworthy other than it will promote site traffic and get the attention of otherwise disinterested parties.[/quote]

I agree. When I was in HS in the mid-90s, fights were common, on and off school grounds. Schools like the one I attended are routinely treated with derision on DCUM, but such behavior is nothing new.[/quote]

I went to Wilson in the mid-90s.  I was one of those loud black teenagers hanging out by the Tenleytown metro and loitering in Metro Center.  I was disruptive and annoying to commuters on the trains.  Now, I am a highly educated professional mother of two posting on DCUM (and I have the HHI that goes with that).  Now, I ride Metro home and sometimes encounter today’s version of me and my HS friends.  While they may annoy me, I can look at them and know that the way they are acting after school on the train with their friends is in no way indicative of who they are as human beings and what they might go on to achieve as adults.  When you are in DCPS, the Metro is your school bus and the behavior you see on the trains is for the most part teens being teens.  I see the white Metro commuters eyeing these teens, and I just know that they don’t see them the same way I do.  They look slightly afraid and definitely dismissive of these children.  The general tone on this thread confirms that.  It makes me sad.[/quote]

PP should be sad if she cannot distinguish between teens talking loudly on the metro and in the station versus a huge fight with arrests.  What is your problem lady?   You expect fights and mayhem?  I see black middle aged people looking dismissive of bad behavior.   You are prejudiced and if you condone criminal behavior then you have a real problem.   [/quote]

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