(08-16-2022, 03:07 PM)Ronster Wrote:

(08-16-2022, 02:38 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: It's not racism for you to gravitate towards someone who looks like you. When you see a person who may be like you succeeding and caring, it can be reassuring and affirming. That said, people need to start making themselves aware of the reality that the raising people UP to a standard is progressive and dropping people below a standard is regressive. If the group isn't being made better by these types of changes, those changes need to go. And, despite what Mikey says, putting color restrictions on teachers has not elevated the students in minority communities.

Unless of course they are white children, then they better adapt or they are racist. Got it...

I have to agree with you on that one.  If one says black students do better with black teachers, then why not say white students do better with white teachers, boy students do better with male teachers, Asian students do better with Asian teachers, etc etc etc.  It never ends.

And when one says "It's not racism for you to gravitate towards someone who looks like you," I disagree.  If you have a positive bias towards someone who "looks like you," then you have a less positive bias towards someone who doesn't look like you.  If I'm white, and therefore I like white teachers more than black teachers, if that's not racism, what is it?

I think we need to give up on these efforts to "remedy the effects of past discrimination."  Because the only way to do that is with more discrimination.  And that leads to all sorts of unintended consequences and justified grievances.  And it will never end.

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