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In reply to the discussion: Florin High principal body slammed in student fight that results in 3 arrests [View all]romanic
(2,841 posts)so im going to ask again; what about my post was racist? I'm a biracial darker skinned man that grew up in a low-income district with gang violence and drug trafficking in and around the crummy, broke high school i was forced to go in.
Racist shit? You know what's really racist? School districts that are left to rot and fall apart because of white flight. Districts that have little to no money to do repairs or rebuild because the surrounding (mostly white) towns that fall underneath part of the district WENT TO THE POLLS AND OVERWHELMING voted down millages to improve a failing district. Districts that hired SROs with hefty salaries while the teachers and janitors have thier wages cut and thier supplies dwindle because of cuts made by fat cat administrators. And let's not forget all the few positive things like art and music and shop classes being cut while class sizes double in numbers, some mixed with problem children from a different school in the district because that building was closed...due to more cuts.
I've experienced the appalling conditions of my schools in the mostly black city i lived in, just like kids that live in other mostly black cities here in Michigan (Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Benton Harbor, Inkster and Buena Vista - the latter two dissolved by our white GOP governor ) Violence, little opportunity, overworked staff, and no one who gives a shit.
If anything is racist it's the conditions that plague mostly black/ poor school districts; not me detailing my experience in a district similar to it. Again if that offends you're delicate sensibilities then too god damned bad. It's my opinion and my life experience and i refuse to be silenced by someone like you.