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    Brooklyn_BruinAshley Velez
    9/07/17 10:21am

    It’s funny how the video doesn’t just call out the racism.

    There is some nuance here (like did they consider a place like DC), but overall it’s black and brown kids at suburban and rural schools where the staff and student body are overwhelmingly white.

    The key thing here is that hardcore conservative Republican alt right folks *don’t* go into education in droves. The enforcers are largely white women who voted for Obama and then Clinton.

    Since these type of videos are made for NEA types and Vox readers, you’ll never see this kind of critique.

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      CrunchyThoughtsBrooklyn_Bruin
      9/07/17 11:19am

      The fact that such a critique is missing is a massive part of the problem. These programs have to be willing to discuss the data on the issue, and turn directly to the educators enforcing these policies, saying plainly, if you enforce these policies and contribute to these statistics it makes you a racist and has the same impact to a life as putting on a white hood, it’s just more subtle. If you want to soften the blow, get a Robin Diangelo or someone like her to be the voice saying it. But it can no longer be sugarcoated if change the goal.

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      Brooklyn_BruinCrunchyThoughts
      9/07/17 11:27am

      Like Coates says in his piece about Trump being the first WHITE President, to address white action and complicity would cause major problems for white people.

      I don’t think black and brown folks are actually grappling with this either. Not even in academia.

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    IDM3Ashley Velez
    9/07/17 5:09pm

    I haven’t seen the video, but have you guys considered Mississippi? This is a big problem down in that state. Last month the school systems, law enforcement agencies and city and county governments in Lauderdale County discussed this issue, but could not come to a consensus.

    In Meridian, the problem was real serious for awhile, though things have toned down a bit. The police would be called to the schools for anything, even if someone pulled a prank or passed gas in class (seriously, not a joke), and take them down to the station for counseling. The saddest was from 2010, when the principal of one of the junior high schools asked the police to take a 6-year old child home over a uniform issue. The child’s mother was unable to buy her child a pair of black shoes, so she darkened a pair of sneakers with a permanent marker.

    To the officer’s credit, when he took the child home, he picked up the mother and took them to a local department store and bought the shoes for the child himself.

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    Kaiser KhanAshley Velez
    9/07/17 11:17am

    Did y’all make that video? If you did, you should consider adding some kind of title screen so that viewers will know where it originated.

    Please tell whoever made that video that they did a good job.

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