Segregated high school proms divide Georgia's students

[Beerina]

Agitating? They have it:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=272389

I personally think this is wrong. Just as I think separate Catholic schools are wrong. There should be one public school system funded by all.
However, I guess we will see how this goes.

Personally, I reject the notion that anybody is so damned sure about anything that they can jam it down everybody's throat.

The public schools make the people who don't use it pay for it, anyway. Imagine the outrage if some private school could make everyone in the district pay for them, too. And I don't mean some silly voucher system, either. You know what I mean.


Change one word: Private --> Government, and suddenly nasty becomes something "you'd pray for".

 

[linusrichard]

Agitating? They have it:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=272389

Read what you link to:

The school would be open to all students.

 

[pchams]

Read what you link to:

I live in Toronto.
They voted it in. But don't take my word for it...

Ultimately the Toronto District School Board Trustee’s passed the motion to create an Afrocentric School from K-5 for the 2009-2010 school year with a vote of 11-9. One of the conditions required enrollment of at least twenty students in two consecutive grades (i.e. twenty grade threes, and twenty grade fours). As of this week, just eight students have been registered, after many public information sessions.

http://laforet.ca/2008/12/15/torontos-afrocentric-school-may-not-open/

So the Toronto school board voted to allow for it, but it yet remains whether all proponents for this silly idea will actually enroll for next season.

 

[linusrichard]

I live in Toronto.
They voted it in. But don't take my word for it...

http://laforet.ca/2008/12/15/torontos-afrocentric-school-may-not-open/

So the Toronto school board voted to allow for it, but it yet remains whether all proponents for this silly idea will actually enroll for next season.

Let's try this again:

There are still groups in Toronto agitating for "blacks-only" schools.

Agitating? They have it:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=272389

And then, in the article you linked to:

The school would be open to all students.

So... that would be a no.

 

[slingblade]

Now, now, let's all remember that racism in the U.S. is dead.





Well, that's what I keep hearing....

 

[godless dave]

I disagree. Once it became embarrasing to be a racist in public, it becomes harder to hold such beliefs even in private. Here are two ways, off the top of my head (there are surely many more) this happens:

First, if one no longer hears constant reassurances of one's racist beliefs from other people in public, one no longer reinforces one's beliefs about the darkies with your drinking buddies in the pub (or your favorite columnist in the paper, or whatever), naturally becomes weaker in time.

Second, when dealing with Blacks in public because one is forced to after segregation is ended, one is likely to discover that "they" are human beings, too; close association notoriously makes stereotypes weaker.

Of course some will refuse all evidence and retain their views no matter what, but the average American white was by today's standards a deep racist only 50 years ago, and he isn't now. Why? Because of the effect of the public sphere on private beliefs.

Well when you put it that way I have to agree with you.

I think the racist people who are left, the ones still organizing segregated proms for their kids, are probably that hard core that is not swayed by embarassment. But keeping the pressure on can't hurt.

 

[godless dave]

Now, now, let's all remember that racism in the U.S. is dead.





Well, that's what I keep hearing....

I haven't actually heard that anywhere. Who is claiming that?

 

[slingblade]

I haven't actually heard that anywhere. Who is claiming that?

Well, you may see it in this forum from time to time. I have on occasion, but no, I don't have the specific post/poster memorized.

 

[Travis]

The Sierra Foothills: California's answer to the Ozarks.

We prefer to think of it as more like Appalachia, but the Ozarks kinda fits too.

 

[Skeptic]

Racism isn't dead EVER, ANYWHERE, because human nature will not allow it.

But what is true is that the USA is NO LONGER A RACIST COUNTRY. The fact that there are (and always will be) assorted racist idiots does not disprove this fact.

Race simply doesn't matter any more to most Americans.