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The New Forced Segregation (Celebrating Diversity)
TCS Daily ^ | March 6, 2007 | Aaron Hanscom

Posted on 04/04/2007 6:04:31 PM PDT by LNewman

Celebrating diversity has become one of the main goals of American schools. Students are being taught to think of themselves primarily as members of different ethnic groups, while being discouraged from developing an American identity.

Consider the case of Mount Diablo High School in Concord, California. Mount Diablo's website states that students will "celebrate diversity by being respectful to all walks of life." In keeping with that ethos, last month the school divided students by ethnicity for separate assemblies.

School officials explained that the purpose of segregating the students was to talk about test scores, recognize achievements and celebrate different cultures. Spanish was presumably spoken at the Hispanic assembly because student Ronald Mares said, "When I went to the assembly, I'm Hispanic, but I don't know how to speak Spanish, so I couldn't connect." Freshman Jason Lockett was disappointed with the African-American assembly, at which the words "Black Power" were projected overhead. "It was to compare us and say how much dumber we were than everybody else," Lockett told the Contra Costa Times.

Mount Diablo is not the only Golden State school to experiment with this sort of segregation. California High School in San Ramon decided to hold pre-test assemblies for only the black and Hispanic students at his school last year. The school asked the students, whom they divided by the race marked in school records, to meet in separate locations during school hours.

The school's principal explained that the meetings were "much like a coach would talk to you before a game. It was all motivational." But the sports analogy is easily refuted by a simple question: Is there a coach alive who would ever dream of separating his players by race before a big game?

The stories listed above are the ones that make headlines, but the battle against assimilation is being waged in schools throughout the country every day and forced segregation is just one of the tactics. Schools in California, Arizona and Colorado have banned the display of American flags and patriotic clothing. The Virginia Beach School Board has created a Diversity Task Force and included diversity as one of its seven strategic goals. (Teaching American values isn't one of the other six.) The Seattle Public Schools stated on its Equity and Race Relations Website that "emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology [and] defining one form of English as standard" were all forms of racism.

Principal Hansen of Mount Diablo High says, "In this country, race is a very uncomfortable topic, and it's time we got over it." Until that day, apparently, she'll go right ahead making her students feel uncomfortable by reminding them of the color of their skin in segregated assemblies.

Aaron Hanscom, a freelance writer in Los Angeles, teaches elementary school for the Los Angles Unified School District.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: academiadesemillas; diversity; lausd; marcosaguilar; muliculturalism; racism; segregation
This essay also appeared in today's Orange County Register Opinion page under the title "Ethnic Pride replacing American Pride." I'm glad it did! I'll be bookmarking his personal web page at http://aaronhanscom.blogspot.com/.

The TCS Daily link has further links to the occurences written about in his article.

1 posted on 04/04/2007 6:04:33 PM PDT by LNewman
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To: LNewman

Multiculturalism = left wing apartheid.

The diversity cadres are working themselves through the school systems.

On the bright side, we’ll all be dead of global warming in ten years.


2 posted on 04/04/2007 6:09:58 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: LNewman
Freshman Jason Lockett was disappointed with the African-American assembly, at which the words "Black Power" were projected overhead

I'd hate to imagine what happened at the white assembly.

3 posted on 04/04/2007 6:25:46 PM PDT by fzx12345 (This tagline has been left blank unintentionally.)
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To: LNewman

Is it just me, or does the Orange County Register make sense quite a bit? I’ve seen several good article out of them lately...

P.S. Exactly why are our schools being used for social engineering? You’d think that as lousy as California public schools perform that they might be a bit more interested in focusing on something a tad bit more academic... But that is, of course, something a successful system might apply.


4 posted on 04/04/2007 6:26:04 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: LNewman
In keeping with that ethos, last month the school divided students by ethnicity for separate assemblies.


I am a caucasian parent of two Chinese children, who have been raise as cultural Americans. What would my children, who are not culturally Chinese, be taught in an assembly geared to those who are culturally Asian? Why are they to be forever branded by those who know nothing about them but their skin color? How does one motivate children based upon skin color? Does one have different standards for children based upon skin color?

5 posted on 04/04/2007 6:28:18 PM PDT by keepitreal
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To: fzx12345
"I'd hate to imagine what happened at the white assembly."

I am afraid we can't have an all-white assembly. That would be racist. [End Sarcasm]

6 posted on 04/04/2007 6:31:50 PM PDT by Volunteer (Just so you know, I am ashamed the Dixie Chicks make records in Nashville.)
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To: Shermy

Celebrating Diversity

5 Highest Standardized Reading Test Scores and % Non-Majority

1. Massachusetts 12%
2. Maine 2%
2. North Dakota 6%
4. Montana 7%
5. Wyoming 4%

5 Lowest Standardized Reading Score States and % Non-Majority

50. California 39%
49. Mississippi 38%
49. New Mexico 17%
47. Nevada 17%
46. Alabama 28%

And if you want to throw in one more...

South Carolina 31% (on the low scorers)
Vermont 2% (on the high scorers)

So there it is. Diversity celebrated. Clearly.


7 posted on 04/04/2007 6:43:44 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: CheyennePress
The Orange County Register version is expanded from the posted editorial and includes mention of my favorite (/S) little taxpayer supported folk school ... "La Academia de Semillas del Pueblo" ...

How about an American coach who wouldn't let his players sing the national anthem? Remarkably, there are principals in America who don't want their students to say the Pledge of Allegiance at school. Hatred for America is the reason why Marcos Aguilar, a founder and "school guide" of La Academia de Semillas del Pueblo in Los Angeles, doesn't have his students salute the flag. The public charter school made news last year when a KABC/AM talk-show host publicized Aguilar's radical background as a Chicano rights activist and his school's anti-assimilation and pro-Aztec culture curriculum. Aguilar once explained his opposition to the assimilation of minority students in an interview on National Public Radio: "Nowhere in the Constitution … or in the Declaration of Independence does it say that, because you come here, you have to now become an American. The United States is who is the immigrant here, not us."

Also, today's OCR's Walter E. Williams column carries this gem of a web site: http://www.noindoctrination.org


8 posted on 04/04/2007 7:12:19 PM PDT by LNewman
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School officials explained that the purpose of segregating the students was to ... celebrate different cultures.

Whether they are white, black or Hispanic, the kids go to the same school, watch the same TV, play on the same sports teams, wear the same clothes, go to the same prom, see the same doctors, and have parents who work in the same places.

Yes they really need to work on learning about each others cultures.

/s

9 posted on 04/04/2007 7:12:39 PM PDT by freespirited (Resentment, redistribution, and re-education. The three Rs of liberalism.)
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