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Originally Posted by Vosges
Highlights: students as young as tk/pk tell black students they can’t be their friends just because they are black. (Clearly taught at home.)
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Your assumption is that this is taught at home. More than likely it's just kids being kids...in the sense that they group and order their social heirachy in sometimes arbitrary ways and use whatever is needed to justify it...skin color, type of shoes one wears, or even having a name that's easily rhymed with an insult...anything to tease others.
Yes this behavior is pervasive as it's inherently human...but it's only incidentally tied to race and only so much as it's tied to shoe brand. This is a nothing-burger.
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Parents outraged that a book written by Barack Obama was mandatory reading. (It was then removed from the mandatory list due to the outrage.) Why? On what basis?
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You'd have to be blind to be unaware that there is pervasive social justice movement out there. When extremism on one side rises up it's often met with growing extremism on the other side.
Perhaps the social justice warriors moved to have Obama's book on the mandatory reading list (likely because of the race of the author, though not certainly so) and there is a counter-movement that sees this as "liberal nonsense" being shoved down their kids throats under the guise of diversity and woke-ness.
I'd be more interested to know which book and the extent to which it's relevant academically before saying race was the driving factor.
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Originally Posted by Vosges
Lots of use of the n-word in school with no consequences.
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This has been pervasive in schools for decades, though almost exclusively by black students.
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I started doing some digging and found out that there are the same type of Instagram feeds for
Blackatcountryday, blackatcls, blackatmarvin, blackatweddington, blackatcharlottechristian.
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There have been protests and riots in nearly every major city in the country for weeks now, and internationally as well. Do we really think a random Parisian gives a crap about George Floyd to make signs and show up with a few hundred of their similarly-minded friends?
These are paid protests, with paid agitators, and it's completely reasonable that some of this agitation is done on-line. It would take a day to make a bunch of inciting instagram handles and promote them. I'd wonder when they were created and how often they're used. The internet is a large place.
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Is this type of racist behavior PERVASIVE in Charlotte? Are the private schools worse than the public schools?
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Nothing here is conclusively, or even likely, racist.
Most people in Charlotte, and elsewhere, don't give a **** about race and they go about their day, living their lives, going to school or work, and taking care of their families without regard to race.
In fact, America is SO racist that people need to make up hate crimes like Jussie Smollett, and this NASCAR BS.
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