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posted by martyb on Monday August 22 2016, @08:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the those-who-can,-do dept.

Nikita Bush's career as a public school teacher came to an end when she faced the decision of how to educate her own children. Having been told for years that American public schools would eventually get better for black children, the number of African-American homeschooling parents like Ms. Bush has doubled in little over a decade.

As Patrick Jonsson of the Christian Science monitor reports, studies show all kinds of public school problems disproportionately affect black children, and many parents have decided to take matters into their own hands. Even single parents are forming co-ops to make it possible to educate their children together outside of the public school system.

What do you do when you feel the system is failing your child and their education?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @02:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @02:16PM (#391635)

    > the current usage of the word 'racist' by all but the deceptive is merely "discrimination or prejudice based on race".

    Hold up there partner, hhhhhhold up!

    Did you say "discrimination?"

    Discrimination is the exercise of power. You can't discriminate against someone without applying power.
    It doesn't have to be a lot of power, its just the power to affect someone in some way.

    You just redefined racism to be exactly what these people are saying it is.
    Uh-oh!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @05:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @05:23PM (#391736)

    It's as though we could remove the race of the person exercising power entirely. We would just need the skin color or presumed race of the people being discriminated against, even if that happens to be the same as the person using their power to discriminate.

    I'm not thinking of any good examples of people who are black discriminating against people who are white (mostly because I cannot think of any good examples of people who are white suffering racial discrimination—the power component would establish that this cannot be just some idiot shouting crap about how white people are scum somewhere), but it would still hold in that instance, correct?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @06:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @06:16PM (#391768)

    Discrimination is the exercise of power. You can't discriminate against someone without applying power.

    Then black people can be racist as well, so it's a foolish and pointless nit to try to pick. The entire reason cited by people trying to change the meaning of the word 'racist' is to claim that black people and/or other minorities cannot be racist, which is as laughable as stating "2+2==5".

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @06:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @06:26PM (#391780)

      Would you be pacified if the claim were changed to "black people can not be effective racists" ?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @07:03PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @07:03PM (#391816)

        No - deceptive people trying to redefine 'racism' are doing so to exploit the emotional component to push a race-based agenda.

        A person of any race/skin color can be racist: discriminate or harbor prejudice based on race. Because of this, all reasons I've heard so far by people trying to redefine this term are based in malicious deception to try to introduce the insane idea that black/minorities cannot "discriminate or harbor prejudice based on race".