Anonymous wrote:No one is questioning having a "leadership" program for males in disadvantaged communities. The problem is when the government explicitly ties that to race instead of doing so implicitly. It's just like religious stuff in schools. One religion is a no-no. Interfaith is ok. Just because everyone involved might belong to a single religion doesn't matter as long as the program itself is interfaith on its surface. They only have to take out the one sentence to make it legal.

jfk, doing something racist “implicitly” does not make it legal.

that said, directing specific places and programs to a specific gender or race isn’t illegal.

Anonymous wrote:Jesus, you people are embarrassing. These initiatives are not new (2015 at least), and they are designed to try to empower and boost achievement for groups that have historically have been left behind. I believe Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative was part of the inspiration.

You people complain that Black communities don't do enough to address problems in their own community and then get angry when we try to direct resources toward our children designed to do exactly that.

Please stop with the absurdist inflammatory bs assumptions about people's motivations. Look at the difference between what you wrote and what DCPS wrote. What you wrote is legal. What DCPS rote is.not. What is the difference? In your (and Obama's) basic formulation the program is race neutral but implicitly targeted. The DCPS version is not race neutral and is explicit Explicit is illegal but implicit is not. The program however doesn't change.

Anonymous wrote:Jesus, you people are embarrassing. These initiatives are not new (2015 at least), and they are designed to try to empower and boost achievement for groups that have historically have been left behind. I believe Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative was part of the inspiration.

You people complain that Black communities don't do enough to address problems in their own community and then get angry when we try to direct resources toward our children designed to do exactly that.

This is true but at least some of the school-based initiatives have expanded from exclusivity to include '& allies." The adults organizing these events should consider the impact on all of the children. The kids probably see the inherent separation as problematic and say something especially since much of the DCPS curriculum is centered around civil rights.

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Anonymous wrote:I look forward to empowering White Males next month

this is event is bs and actually racist

go ahead and be the public face of Empowering White Males! That will be fun.

As a white person, I think white males are too empowered. They’re overly confident and their sense of entitlement is breathtaking.

Anonymous wrote:I look forward to empowering White Males next month

this is event is bs and actually racist

go ahead and be the public face of Empowering White Males! That will be fun.

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus, you people are embarrassing. These initiatives are not new (2015 at least), and they are designed to try to empower and boost achievement for groups that have historically have been left behind. I believe Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative was part of the inspiration.

You people complain that Black communities don't do enough to address problems in their own community and then get angry when we try to direct resources toward our children designed to do exactly that.

all people benefit from this kind of stuff

closing it off based on sex or skin color is sexist and racist period

You really don’t think Black students face unique challenges in school? You think they don’t deserve to have their own safe spaces to discuss and learn, free from whiteness?
I wish y’all would just pack up and leave the city. I’m embarrassed for you.

This whole thread is like a caricature of white people whinging about not being included in every space (not every white PP). The same people who also whine about not being able to use the n word (“well, they use it!”), think that cultural appropriation is overplayed, complain about city crime in black/brown neighborhoods but think the solution is more police, etc. Just go ahead and leave the city or go private if you’re so offended by public dollars being used to intervene for a good cause.

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus, you people are embarrassing. These initiatives are not new (2015 at least), and they are designed to try to empower and boost achievement for groups that have historically have been left behind. I believe Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative was part of the inspiration.

You people complain that Black communities don't do enough to address problems in their own community and then get angry when we try to direct resources toward our children designed to do exactly that.

all people benefit from this kind of stuff

closing it off based on sex or skin color is sexist and racist period

huh, I’d love to see your take on other race/gender disparities.

any adult chosing to be offended by this is racist, case closed.

Anonymous wrote:Jesus, you people are embarrassing. These initiatives are not new (2015 at least), and they are designed to try to empower and boost achievement for groups that have historically have been left behind. I believe Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative was part of the inspiration.

You people complain that Black communities don't do enough to address problems in their own community and then get angry when we try to direct resources toward our children designed to do exactly that.

all people benefit from this kind of stuff

closing it off based on sex or skin color is sexist and racist period

Autism is not a protected class of people, it is completely irrelevant.

Jesus, you people are embarrassing. These initiatives are not new (2015 at least), and they are designed to try to empower and boost achievement for groups that have historically have been left behind. I believe Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative was part of the inspiration.

You people complain that Black communities don't do enough to address problems in their own community and then get angry when we try to direct resources toward our children designed to do exactly that.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh, I lean far more center than left, and this doesn’t bother me. It’s sort of like HBCU’s. I think it’s a good thing they exist. It’s about building community for these kids. It’s an extra. I don’t see the issue.

HBCUs are open to everyone.

As are our schools. But this is an extracurricular activity geared to one audience. I don’t see the big deal.

An extracurricular activity sponsored and promoted by a publicly-funded institution with an explicit invitation only to certain races is not “open to everyone.” Just to be clear.

It is concerning and it is illegal. But now is not the time.

Just to be explicitly clear anyone can go but white kids aren’t the target. If your child doesn’t have autism would they go to a workshop about autism in the workforce? Which DCPS schools do. If you aren’t autistic you could go but know you’re not the target.

Stop acting like whiteness is being excluded and targeted, it’s very telling and disgusting.

My child is autistic and if there was such an event (Wouldn’t that nice? Ha! Not happening.), I would love it if kids - and adults - who were not autistic were invited and welcomed because that might help them understand what it means to be treated differently just for being who they are. Which happens to people with autism and Black people all the time. Why not make this an event where every 12 yr old - regardless of race - feels welcomed in order to foster a more inclusive mindset for everyone?

People offended by this are gross and embarrassing. I sad you have no shame. You need to pack your bags and go to an all-white communities. You’re blind to the challenges minorities face in our society. You fight tooth and nail to get the minorities out of Deal and Wilson. Just do me a favor and wear a white hood so I know not to speak to you.

Oh I know maybe we can have a special group for white kids to stop toxic white culture! Your kids should learn how racist their parents are.

No one is questioning having a "leadership" program for males in disadvantaged communities. The problem is when the government explicitly ties that to race instead of doing so implicitly. It's just like religious stuff in schools. One religion is a no-no. Interfaith is ok. Just because everyone involved might belong to a single religion doesn't matter as long as the program itself is interfaith on its surface. They only have to take out the one sentence to make it legal.