Posted on 05/19/2014 2:49:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Is it just me or is this obnoxious witch just a tad hypocritical?
Sixty years after the Supreme Court outlawed “separate but equal” schools for blacks and whites, civil rights advocates say American schools are becoming increasingly segregated, while the first lady, Michelle Obama, lamented that “many young people are going to schools with kids who look just like them.”
“Today, by some measures, our schools are as segregated as they were back when Dr. King gave his final speech,” Mrs. Obama told 1,200 graduating high school seniors Friday here in the city that gave rise to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.
In a speech that was part commencement address, part policy pronouncement and part journey into her own past, Mrs. Obama said that Brown’s advances were being reversed. “Many districts in this country have actually pulled back on efforts to integrate their schools, and many communities have become less diverse,” she said, leading to schools that are less diverse.
“And too often,” Mrs. Obama said, “those schools aren’t equal, especially ones attended by students of color which too often lag behind.”
If only she and her husband supported school choice.
Mark Knoller ✔ @markknoller
"By some measures, our schools are as segregated as
they were back when Dr. King gave his final speech,"
says Mrs Obama.
S.M @redsteeze
.@markknoller racist country elects black man
president twice so his wife can rail about how
racist country still is.
7:00 PM - 16 May 2014
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Liberals believe in socialism - for YOU and your family.
They expect to be in charge and to be exempted from all laws. Just see gun control and obama care for more examples.
Put or shut up, Michelle: enroll your own kids in public schools.
BTW, School segregation is none or the feds business unless it is state law.
The truth is usually a tough thing to accept, so I understand if this is flagged. It would be a cowardly thing to do, but I understand it. Some people just ignore unpleasant truths. However, if you think ignoring the problem, or trying to censor the truth, will help our black children improve, you’re dreaming. This is important, so I’m happy to repost – indefinitely if necessary. I find it interesting that NO ONE has had the intellect to refute anything in the essay. They can only attempt to censor it, as if doing so somehow makes it invalid. Weak minds, weak minds.
Until recently I taught at a predominantly black high school in a southeastern state.
The mainstream press gives a hint of what conditions are like in black schools, but only a hint. Expressions journalists use like “chaotic” or “poor learning environment” or “lack of discipline” do not capture what really happens. There is nothing like the day-to-day experience of teaching black children and that is what I will try to convey.
Most whites simply do not know what black people are like in large numbers, and the first encounter can be a shock.
One of the most immediately striking things about my students was that they were loud. They had little conception of ordinary decorum. It was not unusual for five blacks to be screaming at me at once. Instead of calming down and waiting for a lull in the din to make their point — something that occurs to even the dimmest white students — blacks just tried to yell over each other.
It did no good to try to quiet them, and white women were particularly inept at trying. I sat in on one woman’s class as she begged the children to pipe down. They just yelled louder so their voices would carry over hers.
Many of my black students would repeat themselves over and over again — just louder. It was as if they suffered from Tourette syndrome. They seemed to have no conception of waiting for an appropriate time to say something. They would get ideas in their heads and simply had to shout them out. I might be leading a discussion on government and suddenly be interrupted: “We gotta get more Democrats! Clinton, she good!” The student may seem content with that outburst but two minutes later, he would suddenly start yelling again: “Clinton good!”
Anyone who is around young blacks will probably get a constant diet of rap music. Blacks often make up their own jingles, and it was not uncommon for 15 black boys to swagger into a classroom, bouncing their shoulders and jiving back.
They were yelling back and forth, rapping 15 different sets of words in the same harsh, rasping dialect. The words were almost invariably a childish form of boasting: “Who got dem shine rim, who got dem shine shoe, who got dem shine grill (gold and silver dental caps)?” The amateur rapper usually ends with a claim–in the crudest terms imaginable — that all womankind is sexually devoted to him. For whatever reason, my students would often groan instead of saying a particular word, as in, “She suck dat aaahhhh (think of a long grinding groan), she f**k dat aaaahhhh, she lick dat aaaahhh.”
Black women love to dance — in a way white people might call gyrating. So many black girls dance in the hall, in the classroom, on the chairs, next to the chairs, under the chairs, everywhere. Once I took a call on my cell phone and had to step outside of class. I was away about two minutes but when I got back the black girls had lined up at the front of the classroom and were convulsing to the delight of the boys.
Many black people, especially black women, are enormously fat. Some are so fat I had to arrange special seating to accommodate their bulk. I am not saying there are no fat white students — there are — but it is a matter of numbers and attitudes. Many black girls simply do not care that they are fat. There are plenty of white anorexics, but I have never met or heard of a black anorexic.
“Black women be big Mr. Jackson,” my students would explain.
“Is it okay in the black community to be a little overweight?” I ask. Two obese black girls in front of my desk begin to dance, “You know dem boys lak juicy fruit, Mr. Jackson.” “Juicy” is a colorful black expression for the buttocks.
Blacks, on average, are the most directly critical people I have ever met: “Dat shirt stupid. Yo’ kid a bastard. Yo’ lips big.” Unlike whites, who tread gingerly around the subject of race, they can be brutally to the point. Once I needed to send a student to the office to deliver a message. I asked for volunteers, and suddenly you would think my classroom was a bastion of civic engagement. Thirty dark hands shot into the air. My students loved to leave the classroom and slack off, even if just for a few minutes, away from the eye of white authority. I picked a light-skinned boy to deliver the message. One very black student was indignant: “You pick da half-breed.” And immediately other blacks take up the cry, and half a dozen mouths are screaming, “He half-breed.”... ESSAY BY A TEACHER IN A BLACK HIGH SCHOOL
Still waiting on her to denounce Grambling State University...
I attended two public high schools while a teen.
One was mostly all white while the other was half black/half white.
Which school would one think I felt safer and was more academically challenged??
Hood Disease: Inner City Oakland Youth Suffering From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
What will going to school with them do for you?
I worked in Montgomery, Al. for 2 years. None of the employees where I worked had their kids in Public Schools. I was a major drain economically for them. But they had no choice. The public schools were, almost literally, a Blackboard Jungle.
One of the guys I worked with had previously worked for years with a company that recruited Doctors to the area. Public schools were a major hurdle to overcome. Most, after they found out the truth, wanted Private schooling figured in the compensation.
I musta’ been working with a bunch of racists’.
For those of you with children, better a smaller house in a white district than a fancy one near a black school.
I have been in parent-teacher conferences that broke my heart: the child pleading with his parents to take him out of school; the parents convinced their child’s fears are groundless. If you love your child, show her you care — not by giving her fancy vacations or a car, but making her innocent years safe and happy. Give her the gift of a not-heavily black school.
I have worked in Topeka (home of Brown v Board) for almost 20 years. My business is peripherally involved with housing, so I keep track of trends. Here’s the scoop, from an ‘on the ground’ perspective:
Until the 2008 crash, Topeka enjoyed a housing boom that lasted for 20 years. During that period of time, the county rate of population growth was around 1% annually - hardly enough to cause a housing boom. What caused it? People are fleeing the 501 school district (501 is the equivalent of the 1950’s era Topeka School Board).
There are many bright spots in USD501...but many bad spots as well. I have known two different people, who lived in the district, and taught in the schools - who decided to move out of the district when their kids were old enough to go to school. And, I know at least one other teacher in the district who sends her kids to private school.
Race is certainly at the front of everyone’s minds. I know somebody whose kids wanted to go to “Topeka High”, instead of “Topeka West”. This was allowed, because his kids were white, and Topeka West is more white than Topeka High - so they were allowed to go ‘out of boundary’ to the wrong high school, because it shifted the racial demographics in the ‘right’ way.
One of the high schools in the district is in a very poor area, called Highland Park. It is primarily minority students. Highland park, back in the time of Brown V Board, was a nice rural bedroom community on the outskirts of Topeka. Eventually the city engulfed it, and it turned into a cesspool. In the late 1960’s, large areas were demolished and built back, as part of “urban renewal”. It didn’t change the area much, and it remains poor...and frankly the school is not a good place. A few years ago, a national publication termed the entire district a ‘dropout factory’. The district disputed these numbers, but still they couldn’t have been far off. The district as a whole, had a dropout rate in the range of 20%....and Highland Park’s was probably near 30%.
I have heard a presentation from the local food bank, and some of the elementary schools in the district have at least 80% of students on reduced or free lunches, to give an idea of how poor the areas are.
A friend graduated college with a teaching certificate and straight A transcript, went to the district hiring fair, and didn’t get a second look. A few days later, there was a ‘good news’ story on the tv, about how the district was able to fill its empty teaching slots with foreign teachers from Africa. There clearly is a mentality of diversity triumphing over everything else.
One day, a local realtor called into a radio show, and characterized the district as a “slow motion train wreck”. I think its a great description. Slowly, a little bit at a time, the district has eroded. And it becomes a self fulfilling prophesy - the more people move out, the lower the funding, the worse the quality, and even more people move out.
So Michelle is right. The Topeka area is incredibly segregated. The high school in my district is less than 5% minority. In the time of Brown v Board, this high school probably had around 50 students...now its close to 2,000. For the most part, the students attending that high school come from families that left the 501 district.
Now whose fault is it? Michelle seems to believe that something is being ‘taken’ from the minority students. Somehow, in reverse Robin Hood fashion, the rich white kids are taking a quality education from the poor minority kids. This is where Michele is dead wrong. People should not be forced to participate in the district if they don’t want, and should be free to move out of the district, without having an accusing finger wagged at them.
The fault lies with the people who made the district unbearable - and not particularly the school building. I’m talking about the neighborhood. The condition of the houses, the crime, etc. Many of the ‘Great Society’ programs have devastated parts of Topeka. And its a shame.
Where do we go from here? Well, political whores like the first...ahem...Lady, will demagogue the issue. Its almost as if she is silently filled with glee, when she observes that so many people from her own race are living in a cesspool. More Votes!
The district has recently turned over a new leaf. It is more businesslike. They are consolidating money pit schools (over great community objection). They are teaming up with a university, to offer ‘more’ to the really good students. But remember - this was a slow motion train wreck. It took 50 years to get into this mess, and it would probably take 50 to get out of it.
Your post immediately transported me back to my days working at a Boy Scout camp.
It might be impolite to say...but the black troops were most definitely different. And “Loud” certainly came to mind.
Each week, we got a new crop of campers, and I have vivid memories of one Monday, when an all black troop showed up at my Craft Lodge. Loud and chaotic. Strangely, the troop liked painting rocks...as in they went around picking up rocks to paint. We had plenty of wood for them to paint on...and leatherwork stuff, and carving, and beadwork. They just liked painting rocks...loudly.
One year I worked in the “Commissary”, and handed out food. Somebody had donated a 55 gallon drum of Karo type syrup. We didn’t know what to do with it. At the beginning of the week, we would give each patrol a small container of the syrup...as with any of the other condiments, if they ran out, they could bring back the empty and get more. For some reason, the black troops Loooooved it. They would bring back an empty every day. I have no idea what they were doing with it, but it generally explained the Loud and Chaotic atmosphere.
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I read that excerpt, and wow! I was so fortunate as to be born in the South and I never went to school (kindergarten through college) with a black. And I see that I didn't miss any positive experience.
Some people are just darn lucky, you know?
by ‘diverse’ she means blacks
people were forced to break their communities... and after decades, those communities are coalescing back together
communities are an effective voting block which typically vote conservative.
broken communities are left with the media as their source of ‘guidance’... which is why the inner cities are almost always dem controlled. brainwashing is effective
They're in it for the money and power.
Elites...do as we said, not as we do!!!
I would not want my kids exposed to a white supremacist’s kids who think their skin color is important, and I suspect even Michelle Obama would understand that concept. I also would not want my kids exposed to a black liberal’s kids who think their skin color is important, although I suspect Michelle Obama would have no idea what the two situations have in common.
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