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Oh sure, rather than tackling the problem of bullying why not create a school for the whimps while their at it.
Now that made me laugh out loud. Good analogy.
Oh sure, rather than tackling the problem of bullying why not create a school for the whimps while their at it.
Oh sure, rather than tackling the problem of bullying why not create a school for the whimps while their at it.
But why is this a black thing. Aren't underproductive white youth in baggy pants an equally important issue? There could be an equal number of youth in the same situation who are not black but because of the statistical game will not get any focus.
I agree. This does not require a black dedicated school.
Racial profiling is multicultural in theory? Whose theory? By definition racial profiling is categorizing based on race which is not multicultural. Also, a black school is not multicultural either.
Nowhere close to the majority of asians or white people have cottages in Muskoka.
I missed that press release. Could you point it out to me. If a black person gets a job it is automatically to make whoever is hiring not seem racist or one-sided? So damned if you do and damned if you don't then I guess.
Wrongly? Michael Richards, Don Imus, and some new nutball that is in the news now have had their careers ended due to pressure from the black community. So what? These people were rightly held responsible for what they said.
Wouldn't you rather there not be black characters that are Lost, Desperate, or breaking from Prison.
Tyra has a successful modelling show. No credit for her? No credit for Ruben Studdard and Fantasia Barrino?
Well if the TDSB creates a black school and it ends up like BET or being the worst performing school in the province-wide tests you will probably be the first to point out that the majority of the school board trustees are not black and the reason the black school isn't working is because of the damned white people.
The reality is that a black school is the symbol of racism. How can one claim to making progress on getting rid of discrimination and eliminating racism while creating race targeted institutions?
Because there is no other means of distinguishing the at-risk student from the overachiever
There's a catholic school in Cabbagetown being used specifically for "last chance" students who have failed or been removed from other schools due to "behavioral" issues. The neighbours don't like it as the kids are vandalizing the area, apparently.i read somewhere that the catholic system is proposing year round school for some locations. could this help some of the public schools in at risk areas? is this already being done in the public system?
Or create another Columbine. The perpetrators of that school massacre were racist and sought out and killed a black student.
It became a black thing the moment statistics proved blacks in general underachieved. Were it another group I'm sure the focus would be equally critical though likely not as controversial given the long history of North American segregation geared towards primarily blacks.
Racial profiling is an example of the discriminatory practices of institutions that are supposed to promote racial equality and tolerance.
How many blacks own cottages?
How many own the roof over their heads? If 85% of all black Canadians lived below the poverty line and only 15% of the several times larger white/Asian population could afford vacations, do you not think its still disproportionately alienating to the black youth to be status challenged at school?
I have a friend who used to work for the CBC. She's originally from Trinidad of mixed white/East Indian descent and in light of the terrorist threat during summer '06 when walking into work with a group of her white colleagues, they were allowed to go through security without showing their ID to guards. She however was hedl back and when asked why they detained her, the guards told her "It's CBC's policy to screen visible minorities pose more risk to detonate us!"
See segregation is alive and well everywhere, acting like a blacks-only school will further the sentiment is rubbish as minorities can just as easily be discriminated against walking down the street.
Since MR and DI have had decades to accumulate their fortunes and royalties from syndication of their massively popular past hits before their fall-from-grace, while the glass ceiling has just broken through (and shut) for IW, I take it one suffered far more severely than the others. Don't think racism played a hand in that?
Look at the entertainment news. How many demonized celebs are black and how many are white? OJ Simpson, Mike Tyson, Jan Adams, the Game, Snopp Dogg, Kobe Byrant, Micheal Jackson, Terrell Owens, Barry Bonds, Micheal Vick, etc. Anyone see a dichotomy?
People sometimes can't get into a show unless people that look like them are apart of it. It sad cause people will get up in arms if something bad happens to the black, Asian or Latino character just because their black, Asian or Latino. The whole audience as such are more impartial to whatever fate bestows white characters, as they become "ethnic placeholders" for minority viewers.
I have no respect for 'Reality' TV, sorry. By the way those two had the poorest record sales of any previous Idol winner, let alone runner-up.
You're probably right. However if it transforms gang bangers into preppies I'll be the first to congratulate the establishment for finally intervening to save some lives from probable degeneration.
Because there is no other means of distinguishing the at-risk student from the overachiever.
It will improve things for everyone else, as a large portion of the troublesome black kids in each school will be removed and sent to the black school, leaving only focused and motivated black students behind with everyone else.What do you rank the odds at that putting all the under performers together will improve things?
Yes, again for the same reason. If all the troublesome folks are located in one area, say Malvern or Jane/Finch, then by default this creates safer neighbourhoods elsewhere. We're seeing this with Regent Park, where poor folks are being moved out of the neighbourhood while the areas being rebuilt, and we're seeing crime in the area drop, and an increase in the overall positive feeling of the area. I imagine the folks that have been relocated are now in one large area as you describe.When you put all the poorer families in the same neighbourhood does that tend to create safer neighbourhoods
Are you serious? In Columbine 13 were killed and 23 wounded and because one black student died its racism? I don't get the logic.
It will improve things for everyone else, as a large portion of the troublesome black kids in each school will be removed and sent to the black school, leaving only focused and motivated black students behind with everyone else.
It will improve things for everyone else, as a large portion of the troublesome black kids in each school will be removed and sent to the black school, leaving only focused and motivated black students behind with everyone else.
Yes, again for the same reason. If all the troublesome folks are located in one area, say Malvern or Jane/Finch, then by default this creates safer neighbourhoods elsewhere. We're seeing this with Regent Park, where poor folks are being moved out of the neighbourhood while the areas being rebuilt, and we're seeing crime in the area drop, and an increase in the overall positive feeling of the area. I imagine the folks that have been relocated are now in one large area as you describe.
In response to the above in general....
Why do more black youths idolize Snoop Dog over Will Smith?
To me it's the same answer as to why black schools won't solve a single thing.
Well, yes, as it's a black school. They'll obviously need a school for troublesome non-black kids as well.Just the troublesome black kids?
Are you serious? In Columbine 13 were killed and 23 wounded and because one black student died its racism? I don't get the logic.
I seriously doubt anyone would propose a school for baggy pant wearers.
It is simply misuse of statistics. Sure, the odds might be different, but the reality is that we are all individuals. Skin colour or religion alone can't tell you anything about a person.
Usually each generation does progressively better than the one before it at integrating into the mainstream.
Why do you lump Asians and Whites together. People from South Asia, East Asia, Europe, South America, and Central America are the same but Blacks are some homogeneous group which is entirely different?
Because this school is almost the same with "It's CBC's policy to screen visible minorities who pose more risk to detonate us"
I'm discriminated against as a black person while walking down the street so don't treat me like a white student who is failing or like an Asian who is failing, treat me completely different... like there is no other alternative but to send me to a special school for those of us with this special problem of dark skin pigmentation?
No. I think some people screwed up before they made money and some people screwed up after they made more. Sometimes hurricanes hit Jamaica but don't hit Florida but it isn't racism.
They have been in the press getting ridiculed because they are screw ups.
Right. Denzel Washington, and Morgan Freeman only have black fans and are easily expendable in the movies they are in getting blown away within the first 10 minutes of the movie. Maybe some people are stars and some aren't.
Because of racism or because people didn't like their music? There are plenty of successful black music artists out there.
I've got one. Grades and problems with authority.
Why do more black youths idolize Snoop Dog over Will Smith?