agreed with. when I worked at a school in north mpls,80% children of color...I had my fi rs t s tudent i worked wi th,kdg(5yrs)I found she had never been a a zoo...and t hat zoo was free.She was black and impovershid, culturally and academically.My last school, a french immmersion in edina..kinda like SanMarino,some sisters,father from Haiti, Black,went on to high level univeristies.PArents advocating for them all the way.The kid I firs t worked w ith did not have parental involvment.They ,or she, probably had no prior g ood experience with education, a struggle to make it throough day. Both black,but different socio-economic influence. The girl who had not been to the z oo ha d plenty of apt itude....her class, and lack of economic standing was much more than her race...but we can also trace that back to slavery.jim crow..and especially redlining.we need to support the learsnsings frseam of the parent.my brother in lawy,Dr jerry stein, created a successsful program for working with all family members leaarning dreamss.he has tauaght all over the world i reccommend you to look it up.he is at the univ o mn.https://cascw.umn.edu/portfolio-items/learning-dreams-module/
Yep. Minorities who are struggling economically need economic relief. Not some validation of some or another identity. Too many liberals buy in to the "diversity" bs and figure if there are a few non white faces in any picture all is cool. Idiotic. This country has a real problem defining "poor" because most "middle class" people nowadays are no longer such. Depending on where one lives, and Blacks for one live mostly in cities that are expensive, I think a family of four needs to have a 200K plus income to be truly middle class. and to be able to PERHAPS send their kids to a good school and maybe save for retirment. A friggin Honda costs 40K nowadays!
No question that the socio-economic standing of Blacks today can be traced back to slavery.
And so what? Lamy poor latinos in the SW are there cuz the US occupied northern Mexico in 1848. OK. Cant reverse that. We have to deal with reality today. Some Latinos dont speak englsih. I had Chinese grad students who could not really speak English and were actually poor. We eastern european jews did not experience slavery but my grandparents and aunts and uncles landed in the country as penniless uneducated jewish peasants essentially but not formally seeking asylum from the pogroms ravishing their villages. Millions have legacy reasons to be what they are today. But it is today that counts. Diversity Blackness. Whiteness. etc are pure bullshit terms fit only for cynical marketing purposes or self-delusion. Period. Cheers to u.
Excellent urgently needed reexamination of a now toxic bad idea. As Marc notes the key social issue that needs to be addressed is not race, an ugly word left over from Southern past. But ‘class’ is not quite right, plus the use of that word reinforces the venom 50s rhetoric of the Tucker gang.
The real problem to recognize and fight is caste, the social capsules that lock down millions of all skin colors. Hard, but possible. Thank you Marc for the great research and analysis. And yes, Sample, not Nikias at USC.
Thanks very much. Caste is also applicable...as long as we understand we are talking about all races. BTw it was NIKIAS. Some of the nastiness that went down in the clinic spanned almost 30 years. Nikias knew and did zip. He also oversaw the Keck School Dean drugs and sex scandal and the "varsity blue" bribes. Not a great leader! Thanks moof
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/caste-does-not-explain-race/
agreed with. when I worked at a school in north mpls,80% children of color...I had my fi rs t s tudent i worked wi th,kdg(5yrs)I found she had never been a a zoo...and t hat zoo was free.She was black and impovershid, culturally and academically.My last school, a french immmersion in edina..kinda like SanMarino,some sisters,father from Haiti, Black,went on to high level univeristies.PArents advocating for them all the way.The kid I firs t worked w ith did not have parental involvment.They ,or she, probably had no prior g ood experience with education, a struggle to make it throough day. Both black,but different socio-economic influence. The girl who had not been to the z oo ha d plenty of apt itude....her class, and lack of economic standing was much more than her race...but we can also trace that back to slavery.jim crow..and especially redlining.we need to support the learsnsings frseam of the parent.my brother in lawy,Dr jerry stein, created a successsful program for working with all family members leaarning dreamss.he has tauaght all over the world i reccommend you to look it up.he is at the univ o mn.https://cascw.umn.edu/portfolio-items/learning-dreams-module/
Yep. Minorities who are struggling economically need economic relief. Not some validation of some or another identity. Too many liberals buy in to the "diversity" bs and figure if there are a few non white faces in any picture all is cool. Idiotic. This country has a real problem defining "poor" because most "middle class" people nowadays are no longer such. Depending on where one lives, and Blacks for one live mostly in cities that are expensive, I think a family of four needs to have a 200K plus income to be truly middle class. and to be able to PERHAPS send their kids to a good school and maybe save for retirment. A friggin Honda costs 40K nowadays!
No question that the socio-economic standing of Blacks today can be traced back to slavery.
And so what? Lamy poor latinos in the SW are there cuz the US occupied northern Mexico in 1848. OK. Cant reverse that. We have to deal with reality today. Some Latinos dont speak englsih. I had Chinese grad students who could not really speak English and were actually poor. We eastern european jews did not experience slavery but my grandparents and aunts and uncles landed in the country as penniless uneducated jewish peasants essentially but not formally seeking asylum from the pogroms ravishing their villages. Millions have legacy reasons to be what they are today. But it is today that counts. Diversity Blackness. Whiteness. etc are pure bullshit terms fit only for cynical marketing purposes or self-delusion. Period. Cheers to u.
Thanks for having the stones to tell ‘em the truth. Class consciousness now and forever.
Tnx Chris!
Excellent urgently needed reexamination of a now toxic bad idea. As Marc notes the key social issue that needs to be addressed is not race, an ugly word left over from Southern past. But ‘class’ is not quite right, plus the use of that word reinforces the venom 50s rhetoric of the Tucker gang.
The real problem to recognize and fight is caste, the social capsules that lock down millions of all skin colors. Hard, but possible. Thank you Marc for the great research and analysis. And yes, Sample, not Nikias at USC.
Thanks very much. Caste is also applicable...as long as we understand we are talking about all races. BTw it was NIKIAS. Some of the nastiness that went down in the clinic spanned almost 30 years. Nikias knew and did zip. He also oversaw the Keck School Dean drugs and sex scandal and the "varsity blue" bribes. Not a great leader! Thanks moof
That’s the good clarifier with caste - it is non-racial malignant. ‘Race’ is a poison word.
and yes it was NIKIAS - Sample was his predescessor, not perfect but much much better.