Posted on 10/10/2005 7:32:44 PM PDT by Coleus
Our elementary school was a attended by a mix of all kinds, but dominated by blacks. when they started busing, they actually brought white kids in from the suburbs. We white kids endured endless abuse from black kids.
They called us honkies, potato chips, and caspars ( the friendly ghost). One of the most hurtful epithets was heifer- directed at white girls exclusively. It still hurts when I think of it.
In class, the black kids would get mad at you if you looked up and just happened to look in their direction. "What you lookin' at?' they'd demand; and were never satisfied with your explanation. They'd threaten to , "kick your white ass after school". They'd always ask to see your paper, or homework, and if you said no, you'd get the same threat. Once a girl and I were in a work group with a boy who simply refused to help out with the project, because he said, " I don't do nothing with white people, period !".
Like your school, white kids did not dare eat in the cafeteria or stay after school. Once a friend and I thought we'd eat in the cafeteria; but the black students, who were the only ones who ate in there, threw food at us until we left. We had the same experiences in the locker rooms as you wrote about.
I could list a lot more incidents, enough to write a book probably, but I won't. I feel upset enough. Those parents need to get their kids out of those schools immediately.
Well, Austin is different. Not really that part of Texas that is really Texan, if you know what I mean. (I grew up in Foat Wuth)
U of Chicago was about 45% Jewish back in the mid-1960s when my former neighbor went there. When I attended in the late 90s, it was about 40% Asian (counting foreign students and the native born) and 30% Jewish. I was part of the 30% other. There were not many blacks, despite the fact that U of C is located in a heavily black area.
First mistake:
-Mom Lisa Brown...relocated her family...so...her sons could experience different people and ways of life.-
Guess her definition of "different" was pretty shallow.
Second mistake:
-...Brown tried to alert Principal...-
Complaints of reverse bigotry will not be tolerated.
Third mistake:
-"I'll make sure my kids are safe because it is the school system's job to make sure they are," she said.-
No comment required.
no, they'll investigate, determine the brown children were racist and punish them "appropriately." In these incidents, the whites are always guilty until proven innocent.
Serious, the most racist people I've ever met were black. I grew up in schools with a minority majority, too, and I've got the scars to prove it--though not litterally thank God.
True liberals tout diversity and send their children to private school.
Brown apparently is naive.
The more I read about this mother, the more I wonder if she's related to "Cowboy" from "Big Brother 5."
I can also speak from personal experience when it comes to a cross-country, cross-cultural move. We moved from coastal Massachusetts to central Louisiana two years ago. Here they are under a 40-year-old court order to enforce desegregation in the school system. They have to bus the kids a considerable distance away from their homes in order to enforce it.
When I first arrived, it was explained to me that parents were going to drastic lengths to circumvent the busing rules, such as putting their houses up for sale or using Grandma's address so their children could stay in all-white areas. We were temporarily staying with family members who had a very desirable address in this regard, so we were held up to intense scrutiny as to whether or not we really lived there. The day I signed a lease for a place of our own, I was ordered to march straight into the classroom and remove my daughter from class immediately because she couldn't stay in the all-white school any more and had to be transferred to another district. Attending this new school meant busing my daughter into another town along a notoriously dangerous stretch of highway.
Because I was new to the area, I didn't know about an intriguing loophole in the rules until well into the school year. I discovered that the best schools were often located in the worst neighborhoods. If you want to get your child a really good education here, you can arrange for what they call a "Majority-to-Minority" transfer. They dangle some excellent carrots in front of parents who are open-minded enough to look past racial balance, such as tuition-free Montessori and magnet schools. The kids who participate in these programs get free busing, too, because the idea is to attract smart white kids from the outlying suburbs to attend inner city schools.
I took a lot of criticism from people for transferring my daughter into one of these schools, which happened to be 99% black at the time they were recruiting. It was a real leap of faith on my part. I was willing to risk it, though, because I knew that an education of this calibre would have only been available in private schools up North, with tuition around $15,000/year.
By the first day of school, however, it turned out that I wasn't the only white suburban parent who crossed over. In fact, I didn't see a single black parent on orientation night. The staff is mostly white, too. After three years of recruiting, I think they've got the racial balance down to about 60% black now. There has never been an unpleasant episode with regard to race since my daughter has been at this school, and I have never had any reason to regret the decision I made.
But, unlike the Oklahoma mother, I did my research and I knew exactly what I was getting myself into. I wasn't sitting around humming "Ebony and Ivory," so to speak.
Fear not -- it is only a matter of time until the Reverand Jesse Jackson and the Reverand Al Sharpton will be on the case.
They will get to the bottom of this and probably organize a march to end "black racism". hahahahahahahaahahhahah -- I can't stop laughing!
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