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Field trip for black students sparks controversy at Ann Arbor elementary school

Holy crap. What a message to send all of the children. That the black kids are so terrible they needed an extra field trip? That the white kids don't deserve a field trip because they're white?

The fact that he forced them to segregate specifically with the goal in mind to benefit one race and not the other is absolutely unacceptable. It's ****ing people like this that foster the racism in this country.
 
So wait, if its a white dood it would be malicious and of racist intent, as in your false claims about the tea party, but because the dood is black, it was not malicious and racist?


:confused:

so now you are intent on measuring the degrees of racism
in what direction would your own be measured?
 
This is the kind of racial bias that should be weeded out of schools. I am against modifying the curriculum to remove African, Latin, or Asian perspectives from American history, but people shouldn't be excluded from school events and trips because of the colour of their skin.

Ridiculous.
i can't believe this. the man should be fired.
 
Perhaps whites should gather enmasse to reenact the march to Selma, Alabama....

The reaction would immediate, severe, polarizing and set back race relations 50 years....

....and provide me a good chuckle.:)
hardly the same, but thanks anyway.
 
so now you are intent on measuring the degrees of racism
in what direction would your own be measured?




Non-existent. I think in order to be a color blind society, one needs to be colorblind....


I rarely notice race. :shrug:
 
Non-existent. I think in order to be a color blind society, one needs to be colorblind....


I rarely notice race. :shrug:

yes, i have noticed how indifferent you appear to be [/s]
 
You guys are gonna catch it for those remarks...
 
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This is the kind of racial bias that should be weeded out of schools. I am against modifying the curriculum to remove African, Latin, or Asian perspectives from American history, but people shouldn't be excluded from school events and trips because of the colour of their skin.

Ridiculous.

Unless their albino and the field trip is to an Petting-Dinosaur park. A Pterodactyl would swoop down and eat the albino child so quickly.
 
It sounds like discrimination to me. The principal of the school is Black, and of course defends this.

How much longer do Blacks get to get special status to make up for past racism? I feel like things like this only fuel racial animosities and tensions. If people want to provide special experiences for certain segments of the population, it should be done through private organizations.

Field trip for black students sparks controversy at Ann Arbor elementary school - AnnArbor.com

It absolutely is racism, plain and simple!

Repealing and changing our society's views on race and inequality does NOT mean the shoe is just on the other foot.
 
One would think that it is just as important for white kids to see that a black person can become a scientist, maybe even more so....

After all, we now have our first black president, and a bit before that our first draft avoiding, coke sniffing, momma's boy, dumb white president....

The bar has been lowered, anybody can become president, but it still takes brains and effort to become a scientist...
 
One would think that it is just as important for white kids to see that a black person can become a scientist, maybe even more so....

After all, we now have our first black president, and a bit before that our first draft avoiding, coke sniffing, momma's boy, dumb white president....

The bar has been lowered, anybody can become president, but it still takes brains and effort to become a scientist...


What does GWB have to do with any of this? :confused:


I don't understand why they couldn't just have the scientist come to the school and give an motivational talk for all the students. You don't help a kid do better in school by having him/her miss classes that the other kids are attending. I also wonder what the black kids who are doing well in school felt about being lumped in with the underachievers. Talk about a message backfiring. :doh
 
What does GWB have to do with any of this? :confused:


I don't understand why they couldn't just have the scientist come to the school and give an motivational talk for all the students. You don't help a kid do better in school by having him/her miss classes that the other kids are attending. I also wonder what the black kids who are doing well in school felt about being lumped in with the underachievers. Talk about a message backfiring. :doh

Good point. This whole thing backfired on them. LOL, and now we're talking about it ad nauseum.

I think it crystallizes some of the quandaries presented by misguided attempts to address past racial injustices. I really feel that it's time for our nation to move beyond that. Treat the Black underclass as you would the White underclass. Give them guidance and assistance when possible, try not to stigmatize them, try and educate their parents, and realize that many of these efforts will be futile.

The problems these kids encounter in life isn't really the fault of the system. They, in fact, result from a high rate of illegitimacy to start with. Single, uneducated mothers, drug and alcohol abuse, violent neighborhoods. These are problems in the poor Black community that they are doing to themselves. They need to clean up their own house.
 
Good point. This whole thing backfired on them. LOL, and now we're talking about it ad nauseum.

I think it crystallizes some of the quandaries presented by misguided attempts to address past racial injustices. I really feel that it's time for our nation to move beyond that. Treat the Black underclass as you would the White underclass. Give them guidance and assistance when possible, try not to stigmatize them, try and educate their parents, and realize that many of these efforts will be futile.

The problems these kids encounter in life isn't really the fault of the system. They, in fact, result from a high rate of illegitimacy to start with. Single, uneducated mothers, drug and alcohol abuse, violent neighborhoods. These are problems in the poor Black community that they are doing to themselves. They need to clean up their own house.

I have worked with Hispanics, blacks, and native americans who have achieved in spite of their families and friends who try to hold them back.
One hispanic said that "we are like crabs trying to escape, as soon as one gets a leg up and over, the others pull him back". A native american said that his family was upset with him for leaving the reservation. There were no jobs on the reservation, simple as that. And 2 blacks were labeled "oreos" for trying to get an education...those are just a few of the ones that I know.
 
''How much longer do Blacks get to get special status to make up for past racism? ''

Until discrimination against them ends.



''I feel like things like this only fuel racial animosities and tensions.''

I think racial tension started because of special racial statuses in the first place. Positive discrimination is unfortunately needed, until rascism becomes nothing but a page in history. Unfortunately, people won't behave fairly, unless the issue is pushed.
 
''Backlash was so severe, ...''

It doesnt seem to take much, to start people screaming.
 
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