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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um, historic racism? [/quote]

Um, read a book?  This has nothing to do with race.  It has to do with class.  Those with means have always wanted to separate themselves from those without means.[/quote]

Except in DC it's about both. Redlining barred people of color from buying homes in certain parts of the city to people of color, even if they had the means. The practice persisted into the 1970s. [/quote]

Many immigrants arrived after the 70s with zero money and they are doing well.

Stop using the past as an excuse for the present.[/quote]

Until you post credible evidence/data that there aren't also racial differences among immigrants and how they're doing today with these issues, your point is moot.  Immigrants do often do better than those here for generations, yet race is STILL a major factor in differences in both opportunities and outcomes.  So in fact, it is BOTH race and class.

Stop pretending your fantasy thinking creates facts.[/quote]

This is hardly groundbreaking.  Here's a piece from 1992.  Google is your friend.  (http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1992-01-21/news/9201040362_1_indochinese-refugee-children-asian-refugee-academic-achievement)
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"Some embarrassing questions must be asked about the children of the Southeast Asian boat people who now live in the United States.

Why are these refugee youngsters --most of whom reached America unable to speak English and with little but the clothes they were wearing -- succeeding so spectacularly in school?

If American schools are so inadequate, so far behind those in other industralized nations, how come they are doing such a great job of educating the Indochinese refugee children?

The answers point to serious problems not so much in American schools, but in American lifestyles, attitudes and family relationships.[/i]"

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