Upper West Side parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools

https://www.msn.com/ ^ | 4/26/18

[BBell]

Video. 2:02

Upper West Side parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools

[SharpRightTurn]

“Upper West Side parents angrily rant against plan to bring more black kids to their schools”

The same folks who insisted Southern school districts must racially integrate their schools in the ‘60s and ‘70s?

[Da Coyote]

If progressives did not have double standards......

[laconic]

I remember a few years ago in either Salem or Eugene, Oregon, both extremely liberal towns. The town fathers and mothers decided to rename a street in a wealthier, whiter area “Martin Luther King Avenue”. There were howls of outrage from the leftist residents with the usual disclaimers: “I can’t imagine a better name for a street, just not mine or in my part of town”. I think it had to do with the perception that most streets named after Dr. King were in poor areas, so it would affect property values.

[9YearLurker]

This is liberalism in a nutshell:

“Government coercion for thee, but not for me”

[Jim Noble]

The late, great, Phil Ochs (yes I know he was a communist revolutionary).

The actual line is, “I love Puerto Ricans and Negroes/As long as they don’t move next door”

Here’s the rest:

I cried when they shot Medgar Evers
Tears ran down my spine
I cried when they shot Mr. Kennedy
As though I’d lost a father of mine
But Malcolm X got what was coming
He got what he asked for this time
So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal

I go to civil rights rallies
And I put down the old D.A.R
I love Harry and Sidney and Sammy
I hope every colored boy becomes a star
But don’t talk about revolution
That’s going a little bit too far
So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal

I cheered when Humphrey was chosen
My faith in the system restored
I’m glad the commies were thrown out
Of the A.F.L. C.I.O. board
I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
As long as they don’t move next door
So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal

The people of old Mississippi
Should all hang their heads in shame
I can’t understand how their minds work
What’s the matter don’t they watch Les Crane?
But if you ask me to bus my children
I hope the cops take down your name
So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal

I read New republic and Nation
I’ve learned to take every view
You know, I’ve memorized Lerner and Golden
I feel like I’m almost a Jew
But when it comes to times like Korea
There’s no one more red, white and blue
So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal

I vote for the democratic party
They want the U.N. to be strong
I go to all the Pete Seeger concerts
He sure gets me singing those songs
I’ll send all the money you ask for
But don’t ask me to come on along
So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal

Once I was young and impulsive
I wore every conceivable pin
Even went to the socialist meetings
Learned all the old union hymns
But I’ve grown older and wiser
And that’s why I’m turning you in
So love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal

[hal ogen]

What a bunch of racist pigs!

[Liz]

What's next for schools full of of liberal kids forced to take students of color?
Racially based, outcome-sensitive school discipline policies?

UWS parents no doubt are familiar with Broward County, Florida.......
a place that looms large as to how racially-based school discipline policies work out.

[Gay State Conservative]

Oh,this is precious.

On a similar note Freepers with some spare time should google "Commonwealth Day School" and "Cambridge".It's the tale of a largely minority school that tried to open up on Brattle Street in Cambridge,MA.Brattle Street is home to top Harvard and MIT faculty and administration as well as other luminaries.Long story short...these "Beautiful People" succeeded in shutting down the school within a year.

Among the many who participated in this effort were Professor Laurence Tribe (Harvard Law School) and Julia Child.

Surprisingly,the Harvard Crimson did a good job covering this while,IIRC,the Boston Globe didn't even go near the story.

[Liz]

Gee, I love stories about uber-liberal Massmachusetts....thanks.

"Commonwealth Day School" is a largely minority school that opened on Brattle Street in uber-elite Cambridge, MA, home to top Harvard and MIT faculty and administration as well as other luminaries....these "Beautiful People" succeeded in shutting down the minority school within a year.

Among the many liberals colluding and conspiring in this effort were Prof Laurence Tribe (Harvard Law School) and Julia Child.

IOW, the usual "tolerant and compassionate" suspects.

[livius]

This is a distortion of what happened. The schools there are good and already have a fair number of Hispanic and black kids, because parts of those neighborhoods are heavily Hispanic and there is a mostly black housing project there. But the new chancellor just announced a plan to take 25% of the seats and give them to “low scoring” kids from outside of the district. And for some bizarre reason, he attacked the parents for being white, so he was the one responsible for this racial rhetoric.

They are opposed to suddenly filling the school with violent, failing students - and believe me, the black and Hispanic parents at those schools are also opposed to it. The chancellor is the one injecting race.

He’s a deBlasio appointment (and even liberals hate deBlasio).

[SamAdams76]

This...(see photo below) is how most liberals live. These upscale gated communities - complete with pretentious names like Copper Ridge, Seven Canyon Heights or Quarry Oaks, is where many liberals live. Most of them require you to drive by a guard shack to gain entry. Residents will have transponders to open the gates but visitors will get the full interrogation. They only "diverse" people the residents there will ever see are the Mexican women that clean their houses, the Latino men who do their landscaping and perhaps the nice "colored" boy that cleans their pool. And yes, when they are among themselves, they will actually say things like " nice colored boy" to describe a black person. I've heard it for myself.

They are absolute hypocrites.

In the city, such as the Upper East Side of NYC, you will have buildings with doormen instead of the gates with guard shacks. But it's the same type of living. They are completely insulated from the "diversity" that gets preached to the rest of us.

[PAR35]

Sounds like the democrats need to investigate those election results. Hillary should have gotten more than 100%. Did she at least get more votes than the number of registered US citizens?

[muggs]

LOL, poor babies. I would probably not feel this way if these weren't bleeding heart liberals that want to tell the rest of us what to do but think they are to good to live by the rules they shove down the throats of the rest of us.

I hope they are ridiculed and humiliated.

[I want the USA back]

But they are willing to force normal people to let their kids be bullied, beaten and raped.

[Rome2000]

The Mayor is a card carrying communist Sandinista.

He and his appointees top priority is to DESTROY anything that is Bourgeois and white.

He leaves Wall Street alone only because they pay him protection money and basically fund the city budget,NYC would be like Detroit without Wall Street.

Now a lot of these UWS Jews either work on Wall Street or are trust fund babies, the ones that can afford the 40 grand a year will be ok, but the ones that can’t have a real problem.

Used to drive a yellow cab, would pick up 4 people at a time from the UWS and carpool them down to Wall St.

[muggs]

Yes, unless the blacks are providing cleaning and lawn care for them, otherwise blacks should stay out of their communities. We have 2 communities like that right here within just 3 miles of the rest of us peons. They are mostly liberal doctors, lawyers (Clinton federal judge appointment) and wealthy real estate people. They are so classy it is against the law to have lawn service done on Sundays and exterminators have to come in unmarked cars. I'm glad some of them are finally getting a taste of their own medicine.

[muggs]

Too funny and they say Trump and the people that support him are racist.

[Wuli]

I have learned that like some “Conservatives” there are “Liberals” who are just “knee jerk” Liberals.

What I mean? Are there “knee jerk” Conservatives? Yes.

Someone whose political identification is just a knee jerk reaction to some issues. It’s someone who has done little thinking of foundational political principals and therefor is not supportive of a position out of principle, out of deeply thinking about what are the principles that should guide their thinking about an issue, they just have a knee jerk political identification (oh, yea, I’m “Liberal”/”Conservative” and take (what I am told) is the “Liberal”/”Conservative” position.

There was some knee jerk not so Conservative reactions this week on a Supreme Court decision that the newest justice, Gorsuch, agreed with. Many reacted in a knee jerk fashion on the tag words “immigration” and “felony conviction”. Yet, what they objected to was that the executive branch was not going to get away any longer with imposing an ill defined law that is not transparent about who will and will not fall under it. They were in affect supporting a power of the executive - to in affect write law all by itself - which is not a truly Conservative position at all.

Well many Liberals do that sort of thing all the time, maybe even more so than Conservatives - go with the crowd because that’s what the crowd says is our kind of view.

We have seen this with so many Liberals we have known. They lose when debating an issue because they don’t have a principled foundation for their position; it’s always been their “good intentions” above all else.

Well some of those Liberals in the Upper West Side of Manhattan are waking up to find they are just knee jerk Liberals who have always gone along with the Liberal agenda because “it was the right thing to do” - it didn’t matter why it was the right thing to do. Now they will start to question their own “Liberalism”.

I just wish some Conservatives put principles over outcomes, and quit being like Liberals. It is the only way the principles gain traction. Set them aside over outcomes and your political label becomes a bunch of slogans, but it’s empty of a consistent set of principles.

[lump in the melting pot]

Yep. Reminds me of the old saw that Southern racists don’t mind black people getting close, as long as they don’t get too high (successful), while Northern racists don’t mind blacks climbing high, as long as they aren’t too close.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The Black satirist Dick Gregory said that one in his act as the difference between Northern and Southern Whites.