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sheesh. where does the washington compost find these loons?
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After the Vergara v. California decision in California’s state Supreme Court, which held that key job protections for teachers are unconstitutional, anti-union advocates everywhere began spawning copycat lawsuits. But while reformers may genuinely want to fix education for everyone, their efforts will only worsen diversity in the teaching corps. The truth is that an attack on bad teacher tenure laws (and ineffective teachers in general) is actually an attack on black professionals. If the Vergara clones succeed, black children will lose effective teachers and the black community will lose even more middle-class jobs. The attack on bad teacher tenure laws is actually an attack on black professionals - The Washington Post
let's see- bad teachers should not be fired because they might be black and that would decrease teacher 'diversity' and cause them to lose their middle class jobs?
I'm not surprised that a liberal paper supports the tenant that blacks are somehow inferior to whites and need "special" treatment. Saying that blacks benefit by protecting incompetent teachers is offensive. Their racism is disgusting.
I'm not surprised that a liberal paper supports the tenant that blacks are somehow inferior to whites and need "special" treatment. Saying that blacks benefit by protecting incompetent teachers is offensive. Their racism is disgusting.
defending incompetent teachers based on their skin color, even to the detriment of black students, is considered the right thing to do in some circles, I guess.
From my observation, it appears that black people are slowly realizing that they are no longer the minority-of-choice for Democrats in America. Instead, Democrats have focused on the much larger and weightier group of Hispanics, who far outnumber black people in America, and thus are receiving all (most) of the policy attention.
50+ years of hand-holding for black people is essentially coming to an end. Jim Crow is gone...welfare has substituted for Dad, social mobility seems to have plateaued, and whole host of negative statistics have defined black culture in America. 50 years of relatively slight progress means the return on investment for Democrats is no longer there.
Democrats simply do not see the benefit in focusing on the black community any longer. Hispanics are the new horizon and that's where the focus for Democrats is and will be.
In short, black people are seeing their influence drastically wane, and are reacting by becoming an increasingly louder squeaky wheel. They can see their irrelevancy coming, and it doesn't sit well with them.
sheesh. where does the washington compost find these loons?
let's see- bad teachers should not be fired because they might be black and that would decrease teacher 'diversity' and cause them to lose their middle class jobs?
.... that they were unqualified for in the first place but were appointed after some "activist" interference.
I'm not surprised that a liberal paper supports the tenant that blacks are somehow inferior to whites and need "special" treatment. Saying that blacks benefit by protecting incompetent teachers is offensive. Their racism is disgusting.
Well, it is racist, just not the way you think.
The article is making the case that since more blacks are in unions in general (as a %) that just by %'s blacks will be more impacted. It does not make the case that they are inferior teachers or would be discharged at a higher rate.
Where it IS racist is that it is essentially making the case that any sort of reform that happens to impact blacks should be stopped. Not because of the merits of the reform but because it might impact blacks. That is the racist part of the argument.
Democrats simply do not see the benefit in focusing on the black community any longer. Hispanics are the new horizon and that's where the focus for Democrats is and will be.
Not to mention that based on the principles they hold dear, Hispanics are actually much more likely to be Republican than Democrat, and Democrats know this.
When it comes to Hispanics, the only arrow in the Democrat quiver is immigration. If the Republicans were smart, they'd compromise (or even give in completely) on that issue and then start vigorously campaigning for their votes.
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