The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102927   Message #2096890
Posted By: John Hardly
08-Jul-07 - 08:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: Education, Race 'n Community...
Subject: RE: BS: Education, Race 'n Community...
Why does it seem to bother people that Blacks like the company and association of other Blacks? Do we insist on going in and breaking up Chinatown? ...Little Italy?

Is it the hope that if you can just get the Black kids into the "white" schools that they will learn to be less "black"? Do we just not like the way they teach their own children, and wish they'd teach them in a manner more in line with our sensibilities?

....doesn't that fly in the face of the ridiculous notion of "diversity" wherein the goal is to make sure that each and every ethnicity and race remains distinct -- so that we can enjoy difference for difference sake?