A very interesting an in-depth article about some Black leaders in Dallas are fighting to keep the schools segregated, because they feel the white kids are taking up all the Advance Placement seats and displacing Black kids, or some such. It is really surprising that after all those fights and trials that the Black people have gone through to achieve equality and integration with the non-Black society, Black leaders are now trying to play identity politics trying to introvert the Black community into itself.
Segregation Forever,How Dallas got what it wanted,By Jim Schutze
In the next two months a federal judge will declare the Dallas Public Schools officially desegregated. That designation--desegregated at last!--will close a battle over racism that has consumed the city and the school system for a third of a century. And at that point people on both sides agree the universe of Dallas children will be almost totally segregated--black and Hispanic kids on one side of the equator, whites on the other. Victory!Posted by shanti at May 15, 2003 2:17 PMA few years from now the school district will be populated almost entirely by children of color who may go through their student careers and never share a classroom with a white child. The white kids will be somewhere else, in private school or the 'burbs.
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wait, they are NOW trying to play identity politics???? ;) seems like this has been happening for a generation now.
the black political elite had their utopia for 10 years in the 1970s-after segregation but before the rise of non-black minorities….
Posted by: razib at May 16, 2003 1:07 AM
LOL, Razib - it is true they have been trying this “re-segregation” into individual race-based communities for a while, but this I guess is one of the more blatant examples of “separate but equal” policy.
Posted by: Shanti at May 16, 2003 7:20 AM
It remembers me now! thanks! :beam:
A 60 Minutes segment months ago was on “black flight” out of mixed-race suburbs into purely-black high-income suburbs, by people who said quite openly they didn’t want to raise their kids around white people. The Christian Science Monitor has run articles on black and hispanic parents agitating directly for school segregation. This is not a new phenomenon, nor are they trying to hide it; the thing is, it doesn’t register in the belief systems of most people, who can only see desire for racial separatism as purely a white thing.
Posted by: Adrianne at May 17, 2003 10:29 AM
Yay, Adrianne! :)
See, I think that is form of racism too - not acknowledging racism unless perpetrated by white people. It is like assuming there is no way blacks and Hispanics can feel superior enough about themselves to be capable of racism.
Posted by: Shanti at May 17, 2003 10:59 AM
In principle, it is like all those tribes and castes in North India who are clamouring “DECLARE US BACKWARD, DECLARE US BACKWARD”. The point was to eradicate caste differences. These guys want them to grow.
Posted by: Gaurav at May 17, 2003 11:32 AM
You are right, Gaurav - I don’t necessarily think this kind of thinking is something that any individual minority person in US or India would endorse, but collectively, they give in to the dictat of the community leaders whose power lies in the keeping alive of discriminations and divisions.
Posted by: Shanti at May 17, 2003 12:34 PM
Wow, they finally are getting it right.
Posted by: Daryl at May 4, 2005 9:56 AM