Comments on: 2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:26:00 +0000

Opportunity is not something you earn, it’s something you get. How hard did you earn the opportunity to be born in a nice, clean hospital, get food everyday, and go to school as a kid?

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:23:00 +0000

Blacks in America are more intelligent than those in Africa (whatever than means)? First, where did you get that from? Second, whites have done a lot of “education” in Africa during colonization. Most African countries have an education system inspired by that of “the whites.” My guess is: intelligence doesn’t have a lot to do with skin color.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:15:00 +0000

They will “hide the money”? You mean fraud, right? That’s illegal.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:13:00 +0000

Wow. Is that for real? Do you realize how truly racist that sounds? How messed up would your child grow up to be if he or she were to hear that kind of remarks?

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:08:00 +0000

Do you realize how insulting that sounds? Do you think it’s ok that others have to rely on somebody else’s good will to get clothes?
Nobody’s telling you you don’t care (and we all feel for you, rich people whose heart bleed for those who have less). But public school shouldn’t have to struggle for funding and the discrepancy between your school and that public school shouldn’t be so important.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

That existed, it was called segregation, Jim Crow laws. It wasn’t a great idea, was it? Maybe spend some time with people with another complexion and you’ll see you’re not so different.

By: Toto

Toto — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:52:00 +0000

Wow… Let’s take it easy: today’s whites are not responsible for what their ancestors did. Rather, we all as a nation are responsible for diminishing the ongoing effects of yesterday’s discriminations (that overwhelmingly affect blacks). Many white commentators here should understand that legal segregation ended only decades ago (and therefore people who are still alive today suffer from not having been allowed to go to college and the like), and that it greatly affected the next generation, and then still (albeit less) the following one, etc. That’s unfair.
That doesn’t mean that it’s *your* fault or your race’s fault (it’s not about you). But because we live in a big community, we want to make sure that the wrongs of the past have been acknowledged and that their effects are not passed onto the next generation. And for that you need equal opportunity for all: access to education and health care guaranteed, no segregated second-class public services, discrimination made illegal, etc.

By: Shavon

Shavon — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:15:00 +0000

For the same reason, myself, and everyone I know shuns the local ‘diverse’ public schools. The non-white kids are out of control.

By: Shavon

Shavon — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:14:00 +0000

Then there will be no more millionaires in your state. If you overtax them, they will leave, like they’re doing in California, or they will hide the money. Millionaires pay the majority of all taxes paid to the federal government.

By: Shavon

Shavon — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:11:00 +0000

Then what is the purpose of multiculturalism, diversity and integration, if we are unable to interact, learn from each other or live together comfortably? Should we then partition the country into three or four new nations, each with a racial majority?