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I don't think it is race unless the Somali immigrants for sure would get along really well with black American kids. It's likely they'd fight with them the same as they fought the white kids. In my own kids school fights don't break down along racial lines (95% hispanic) but along language lines or American-hispanic kids who speak English against the foreigners. No one even bothers to fight with the few white kids.

I didn't say it was about race, but race, as most come from different countries, usually incorporates separate cultures, subcultures, conditions, values, beliefs, etc.

I also pointed out that the multiculturalist dogma is being promoted at the same time that huge numbers of third world immigrants and illegal aliens are being brought into America.

I don't think it is race unless the Somali immigrants for sure would get along really well with black American kids. It's likely they'd fight with them the same as they fought the white kids. In my own kids school fights don't break down along racial lines (95% hispanic) but along language lines or American-hispanic kids who speak English against the foreigners. No one even bothers to fight with the few white kids.

That's certainly not the case in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. There was a story a few monts ago that was widely reported as "Asian kids victims of bias" which is a typical PC distortion of the real story.

SURVEY: RACISM RAMPANT AT B'KLYN'S LAFAYETTE HS By CARL CAMPANILE NY POST

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April 17, 2002 -- EXCLUSIVE

Students and staff at Lafayette say the Brooklyn high school is a dangerous hotbed of racial bias.

An explosive survey obtained by The Post shows one student out of 10 reports suffering physical or verbal attacks by classmates who targeted them because of their race. And 36 percent believe racial tensions are high at the Bensonhurst school.

Teachers and other staff members agree.

Some 48.6 percent of them said that racial bias is a problem.

Schools Chancellor Harold Levy called for a probe at Lafayette in August after The Post exposed a series of allegedly racially motivated attacks - including the severe beating of a Pakistani student last year. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating alleged civil-rights violations at the school.

Lafayette subsequently created a special bias task force, whose members include Ronald Woo, the head of Levy's office of monitoring and school improvement, its new principal, Alan Siegel, as well as teachers, parents and community leaders.

The poll queried 1,545 students and 34 teachers and staffers.

Only 24.6 percent of the students thought bias was not a problem. About 40 percent were unsure.

"More students of every racial-ethnic group agreed with the statement [that bias exists at the school] than disagreed," an analysis of the results said.

There was a huge racial and ethnic disparity in the students who reported being a bias victim.

Half of the students who claimed to be bias victims identified themselves as white, 26.3 percent as Asian, 6.7 percent as black and 6.4 percent as Hispanic.

The percentage of white alleged victims was more than triple the 15.7 percent white representation among Lafayette's 2,400 students.

The percentage of Asian victims was more than double the 12.7 percent of Asians enrolled at the school.

Only 25 percent of the students who said they were bias victims notified authorities, the survey found.

"Students that did give a reason for not reporting indicated a fear of retribution by students, staff or school," the analysis said.

Levy spokeswoman Catie Marshall said the bias survey, conducted in the fall, is the first of its kind in a city high school. The survey was done in Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Spanish as well as English.

"This is a blueprint for healing a school community," Marshall said. "This survey is part of the solution to root out problems at Lafayette."

She said there have been no alleged bias incidents this year.