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"The scheme, at McCaskey East High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, separates black students from the rest of the school pupils, and then further breaks it down into black females and black males."
People already do that on their own. Filipinos hang with other Filipinos, Mexicans hang with other Mexicans (and yeah, they can tell the difference whereas I cannot), Poles have their own little enclaves.
For a melting pot society, ethnic groups sure tend to band together and keep to themselves.
People already do that on their own. Filipinos hang with other Filipinos, Mexicans hang with other Mexicans (and yeah, they can tell the difference whereas I cannot), Poles have their own little enclaves.
For a melting pot society, ethnic groups sure tend to band together and keep to themselves.
Groups tend to band together, period. Falls Church has a big Vietnamese population. San Francisco (and lots of other places) have Chinatown. Chicago has Poles, Ukrainians, and Irish that stick together. New York has Puerto Ricans, Miami has Cubans.
People like to be with people they are similar too, it's just a fact of life.
That's the problem that a lot of black kids in this country have. many equate being smart and literate with "acting white" and coincidnetally, a great many of them prefer to act like the black people they see on BET. They need more influential blacks to look up to, because looking up to white people hasn't worked
If you don't understand the history you don't understand the problem.
There are plenty of influential Black Americans to look up to in this country that is NOT the problem. The problems is for the last 30 years many Black Americans have internalized the worst stereotypes about them and used these stereotypes to create a highly self desructive value system.
Now if you really give a damn you might wonder why this would happen?
The reason is sense of frustration born out of the post-Civil Rights Era and the de-industrialization of America which devastated the working class Black Americans. During the late 1970's and the early 1980's the urgency to address a lot of the issues pertaining to the inequalities affecting many Black Americans was no longer a national priority. Some Black Americans were able to take advantage of increased opportunities brought about by the Civil Rights Era to get educated and advance economically. But many other working class Black Americans were "Left Behind" when factory jobs in places like Newark, Baltimore, Detroit, Flint, Philadelphia, Gary and other cities with strong industrial bases closed. Not only did the factories leave but many people with the financial means also left for the suburbs. On top of that under the Reagan Administration aid to help cities was also curtailed. So you have a group of people that were left behind by employers, people with the financial means to leave the cities and the government. Keep in mind these are people that in many ways HAVE NEVER BEEN TOTALLY EMBRACED BY AMERICA in terms of equal opportunity, equal rights, or equal social status. Even Black Americans that embrace mainstream American values are often made to feel excluded or merely tolerated by other Americans. As any City-Data thread on “DIVERSITY” clearly shows.
NOW WHY WOULD YOU EMBRACE THE SOCIAL VALUES OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN REJECTIING YOU FOR CENTURIES?
The self destructive and dysfunctional behavior you see in inner city America is a rejection of the values embraced by mainstream America. These behavior are going to continue until the people in these communities have an epiphany that the current value system they have in place most chance in order for them to survive. There's not really a damn thing that you, me or the government can do to fix this problem.
One such mentor is Michael Mitchell, who hopes to inspire his black male students during their short daily meetings.
He said he often quoted the Reverend Martin Luther King, who said: 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
Mr Mitchell recently used the quote when he found that some of his students were failing gym.
Sad that they're failing gym by not participating.
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I'm prejudiced in this regard having attended a all boys all African American prep school. The only white folks were the priest that ran the place and taught. Frankly, I can't argue with the school's achievement record; a graduating class of 120, 90% college acceptance, 9 to Ivy League schools, and a 0% drop out rate.
If six minutes a day, and 20 minutes a day while still maintaining a diversity during the remainder of the day helps to achievement, I'm all for it.
I have to wonder if we're not getting the whole story. Lancaster has a large hispanic population, not so much black. Is it a language and racial attempt at segregation? It might be based more on language barriers.
Math proficiency at 27%, that is an embarrassment.
Obviously the status quo is not working. Pairing up these kids with educated, successful, and articulate men and women who LOOK like them does have a positive value experience IMO. The principle should be applauded for trying to do what is best for the students. And it's good to see educated black men and women trying to inspire kids. It may not work perfectly, but it's a start. Until the PC police can come up with a better alternative, then what is the harm in trying?
They had something like this at my high school; black kids were able to receive a community service credit for spending time with a black professional. You had to be a junior or senior but by the time I was a junior the well meaning other folks said it wasn't fair that only black kids were given that opportunity so the program ended...as far as the school was concerned.
The professionals just got together and took it to the community center and for some reason the well meaning other folks lost interest in the program.
The idea, this "experiment" of returning to past policies is the result of a primitive thought process.
Returning to the past, to policies that have long been hated and deemed evil and racist, doesn't seem to be the kind of change or reform conducive to progressivism or liberalism. No creativity? None whatsoever?
We have a leftist president invoking the 1950s and folks from the left condoning segregation experiments. And they always claim that is right wing ideology.
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