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Ida Bae Wells
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What a silly article. Do people who write these anti-reparations articles even bother to read anything that has been written on before? Do they even care that all their supposedly gotcha questions have been asked and answered? Do they know the difference between wealth & income?
Does anyone get editing anymore?
But, it's clearly about clickbait -- hence the: I really stirred up a hornet's nest with this one. Thanks but not thanks.
I literally can pull up 10 articles that ask these same inane questions that could easily be answered with simple logic.
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Ida Bae Wells
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Love this piece, as always, by @EricaLG. Some thoughts. That anyone wld consider any of our children, no matter their circumstance, irredeemable speaks exactly to why we get such poor results w blk children. None of our children are irredeemable. They don't need to be redeemed
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Ida Bae Wells
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That’s patently false. White students are over represented as well and there’s plenty of conversation about that. Some Asian-Americans have used their mega phones — and I would argue white folks have gladly let them — to tamp down accusations the test is racially biased.
But the extent to which Asian Americans have been the faces of this story is because that is where the most vocal public pushback has come and the very tweet you’re referencing addresses Lieu saying reform efforts are anti-Asian and racist.
It’s been easy, then, for white people who also don’t want changes to the test, who also are overrepresented in a system built to ensure their advantage, to sit behind the scenes and let it seem as if these are just “minority” groups fighting.
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Ida Bae Wells
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When you'd rather close schools then let black children in. 1954. 2019. America is America is America, no matter the year. detroitnews.com/story/news/edu…
So, the border between Detroit and Grosse Pointe is the most economically segregated in the nation. patch.com/michigan/gross…
And Grosse Point fought long and hard to maintain its whiteness as it bordered an increasingly black city, including implementing a point system by which city officials colluded with real estate agents to prevent all black families from buying homes there. pcur.princeton.edu/2017/11/the-un…
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